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Bihar HRD Secretary transferred
Patna, Sep 03(iGovernment Bureau): In a minor administrative reshuffle, the Bihar government transferred three IAS officers, including Human Resource Development (HRD) Secretary K K Pathak. According to an official notification issued by the General Administration Department, Pathak has been made Managing Director of Beltron. Pathak, a 1990-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, was recently in [...]
Woman killed, 22 injured in bus mishap in Bihar
Nawada, Sep 02(PTI): A woman was killed and 22 others injured, five them critically, when a bus overturned and fell into a road side gorge on national highway near Rajauli in Bihar’s Nawada district today, police said. The accident occurred when the driver of the bus on its way to Randhi in Jharkhand from Darbhanga [...]
Track tormentors, doctor & family
Patna, Sep 1(The Telegraph): This Munnabhai is an MBBS for real. And also a train bandit. Ramanand Shukla, 73, is an unlikely head of one of Bihar’s most dreaded train robbery gangs, having passed his MBBS exam from Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in 1972-73. He is now languishing in Sasaram district jail, facing [...]
Maoists release kidnapped Bihar government officer
Aug 31(ANI): Maoists set Block Development Officer (BDO) Manoj Kumar Singh free on Tuesday, two days after his abduction from Bihar’s Sheohar District where he had gone on an official visit. Tariyani Block Development Officer Singh reached his home in Muzaffarpur at around 11 a.m. today. “He is in a state of nervousness and has [...]
Trader shot dead, assailant drowns
Darbhanga, Aug 29 (PTI): A trader was shot dead and his motorcyle looted by an assailant, who subsequently was beaten up by locals and in the process fell into a pond and drowned at Samaila village in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, police said today. The assailant gunned down 25 year-old trader Amir Niazi, who was on [...]
People flee homes as floodwaters enter 200 Bihar villages
Aug 25 (IANS): Thousands of people in Bihar fled their homes Wednesday as floodwaters entered over 200 villages and threatened to inundate many others. Floodwaters entered villages in Narkatiaganj and Sikta blocks of Bettiah district, Katra, Auraiand Gaighat blocks in Muzaffarpur district and Ghanshayampur and Kiratpur blocks in Darbhanga district. Besides, dozens of villages in [...]
800 striking universities, colleges employees suspended in Bihar
Patna, Aug 11(PTI): More than 800 striking non-teaching employees under Patna University and Lalit Narayan Mithila University of Darbhanga were suspended for allegedly violating the ultimatum by the state Human Resources Department to resume their duties. As the teaching and admission works of the colleges under nine universities continued to suffer for the past over [...]
Bihar to seek Rs 15,000-crore Central package for drought
Patna, Aug 05(PTI): The Bihar government will seek a special financial package of Rs 15,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought in 28 of the state’s 38 districts. Sources in the state’s disaster management department said a report, which was being given final touches, seeking assistance of Rs 15,000 crore would be placed before [...]
Bihar govt forces people to buy rotten rice
Darbhanga, Aug 04 (CNN-IBN): CNN-IBN has already shown you how tonnes of grain lay rotting out in the open across India, as the common man struggles with rising prices. If that wasn’t bad enough, now it turns out that rotten grain is being sold forcefully to the poor in official ration shops in Bihar. The [...]
Bihar declares 28 of 38 districts drought-hit
Aug 03, (PTI): The Bihar government today declared 28 out of 38 districts in the state as drought-hit following deficient rainfall. The cabinet presided over by Chief minister Nitish Kumar took a decision to this effect after making an intensive review of the situation in the state on reports received from district magistrates and other [...]
B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University
On 02.01.1952 Universities of Bihar was separated from Patna University, but with its headquarters at Patna. In the year 1960 – The Bihar State Universities Act 1960 bifurcated the existing University of Bihar into three separate Universities, namely; (1) Bihar University, Muzaffarpur (2) Ranchi University, Ranchi (3) Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur. Again in the year 1961 [...]
Two persons killed in accident
Darbhanga, Aug 2 (PTI): Two persons were killed today when their motorcycle collided with a bus near Mabi Chowk in Mabbi in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, police sources said. The accident took place as the motorcycle-borne duo tried to overtake a speeding bus, the sources said. Virendra Mahto, who was driving the two-wheeler, died on the [...]
Construction of mega bridge over Kosi delayed
Patna, Aug 01 (TNN): Although its foundation stone was laid by the then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003, the mega rail bridge over Kosi river at Nirmali in Supual district is unlikely to be completed before 2011-12. It was scheduled for completion in 2009. Once completed, the mega bridge is likely to prove a [...]
Rs 2.03 cr released to 17 Naxal-hit districts
Patna, Aug 01(TNN): The state home department has released Rs 2.03 crore to 17 extremist-affected districts from the contingent fund for the immediate fortification work of the police stations, outposts and pickets. The fund will be used for construction of boundary walls, barracks and watch towers. Five districts: Banka, Sheohar, Lakhisarai, Vaishali and Begusarai will [...]
Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
The Temple of Learning Lalit Narayan Mithila Vishvidyalaya, Darbhanga is an outcome of the cherished desire of the people of this region. Eminent academicians like Dr. Amarnatha Jha, Dr. R.C. Mazumdar, Dr. A. S. Altekar, Dr. Sunit Kumar Chaterjee and many others had expressed their view in favour of the establishment of modern University at [...]
Bihar Transport Corp invites bids for empanelment of ad agency for it buses
July 28(Exchange4Media):The Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC) has invited bids under the ‘two-packet system’ from ad agencies for empanelment for planning and conducting of ads issued by BSRTC, utilising the Corporation’s buses and bus stands for advertising purposes. The EMD required is Rs 10,000. The bids have been invited for two categories: • Advertising [...]
Strike evokes a near total response in Bihar
Patna, July 10 (IANS) A strike called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) to protest against the fuel price hike hit train and road services and paralysed normal life across Bihar Saturday. More than 5,000 protesters, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, were arrested [...]
Unemployed medicos in Bihar polish shoes in protest against the state administration
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 30: Unemployed medicos in Patna polished footwear in protest to voice their anguish at not being given any employment by the State government. Under the banner of Health and Education Reform Association, the protesting doctors with stethoscopes around their necks polished the shoes here on Tuesday. Graduate doctors of Darbhanga Medical [...]
Four more Bihar districts to have Rural SPs soon
The Bihar NEWS, June 10: Four more districts are likely to have Rural SPs soon. The state police headquarters has proposed creation of the post in Muzffarpur, Darbhanga, Gaya and Bhagalpur districts. According to sources the proposal for creation of new posts of the SP (Rural) in four important districts is at present under the [...]
EC refuses to give any poll date, reviews pre-poll works
The Bihar NEWS, June 02: The Election Commissioner, S Y Quraishi, on Monday refused to give any hint about the tentative schedule for the forthcoming assembly election, insisting, that there was still a lot of time left for the polls. Expressing satisfaction at the pace of updating of photo electoral roll and coverage of EPIC [...]
ASP who beat up NRI made SP
The Bihar NEWS, May 31: The State government on Saturday promoted Vivek Kumar, ASP Jehanabad, who beat up an NRI when the latter’s car overtook his official vehicle on Patna-Gaya road, to the rank of the SP Enforcement (Transport), Vivek hit national headline when he brutally assaulted the NRI, who came all the way from [...]
Fate of many Bihar rail projects uncertain
The Bihar NEWS, May 26: Bihar seems to be suffering at the hands of Indian Railways. Though the state chief minister and former railway minister, Nitish Kumar, is all praise for Mamata Banerjee the truth is that the fate of 13 projects taken up during the reign of Lalu Yadav are hanging in balance. This [...]
Chappal thrown at Nitish’s public meeting
The Bihar NEWS, May 07: Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Vishwas Yatra was marred by controversy for the second day in succession. A chappal was thrown at him in a public meeting in Darbhanga district on Friday. The chappal fell well short of dais. The man who allegedly threw the chappal, Ram Babu Mahto, has been [...]
Fresh bid invited for 11 closed sugar mills
The Bihar NEWS, May 5: After being let down by Reliance the Bihar government is going for a third bid inviting prospective investors to invest in the 11 closed sugar mills of Bihar State Sugar Corporation (BSSC). According to Sugarcane Commissioner Jai Mangal Singh, the SBI Capital has already evaluated the assets of these mills. [...]
Bharat Bandh evokes widespread response in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, April 27: LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan and RJD general secretary, Ram Kripal Yadav, were among the 4,500 people who courted arrest on the occasion of Bharat Bandh in Bihar on Tuesday. The Bandh call given by 13 non-NDA and non-UPA parties evoked good response almost all over the state. In Patna [...]
Madhubani
Madhubani is a town and a municipality in Madhubani district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the district head quarters. It lies 26km northeast of Darbhanga town and was part of the erstwhile ‘Darbhanga Raj’, the largest zamindari of India. The word “Madhubani” means “Forest of honey”. Madhubani is the cultural heart of [...]
Urdu
Urdu is one of the important languages of Bihar. It became the second official language in the undivided State of Bihar since 16 August 1989 for the following purposes: Acceptance of representations and replies thereto. Acceptance of documents by the Registration Offices. Publication of important rules, regulations, etc. Issue of orders and notifications of public [...]
Darbhanga
Darbhanga district is one of the thirty-seven districts of Bihar state, India, and Darbhanga town is the administrative headquarters of this district. Darbhanga district is a part of Darbhanga Division. The district is bounded on the north by Madhubani district, on the south by Samastipur district, on the east by Saharsa district and on the [...]
Begusarai
Begusarai is a city and a municipality in Begusarai district in the state of Bihar, India. It was named after the caretaker of one of the inns (known as SARAI in Hindi) established by Sher Shah for the travellers. The caretaker of this place was BEGU so called Begusarai. Geography Begusarai is located at 25°25?N [...]
