All Entries Tagged With: "Gaya"
86 policemen killed by Naxals in Bihar since 2005: Statistics
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): As many as 86 policemen and over 188 civilians have lost their lives in Maoists attacks in Bihar since 2005, according to official statistics. There was no let up in Maoists attacks this year too with the latest being the killing seven policemen by the rebels in an encounter in Lakhisarai district [...]
Train derails in Ghaziabad
Sep 02(TNN): Four bogies of the Mahabodhi Express, going from New Delhi to Gaya in Bihar, derailed in Ghaziabad at about 5.15pm on Wednesday. As a result, traffic on the New Delhi-Howrah track remained suspended until last reports on Wednesday night. But, there were no casualties. The derailment happened near the Chipiyana crossing. The derailment [...]
Tantia Constructions stock up on receiving contract
Aug 31(India Infoline News Service /): The stock has hit a high of Rs87 and a low of Rs82. Shares of Tantia Constructions have gone up 3% after the company has received a project from Executive Engineer, Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojna (RSVY), CPWD, Gaya for ‘Development of State Highways in the State of Bihar’ for [...]
BDO held for graft
Gaya, Aug 27 (PTI) A block development officer was today arrested by Bihar Vigilance Bureau while he was accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 from a panchayat sevak at Barachaki in Gaya district, vigilance sources said. Acting on a complaint from Rambali Yadav that the officer had sought bribe for confirming him in service, vigilance sleuths [...]
Lightning kills 17 in Bihar
Patna, Aug 25(IANS): Seventeen people, including women and children, have been killed by lightning across Bihar since Tuesday, an official said Wednesday. ‘Ten men, five women and two children have been killed by bolts of lightning in Bihar,’ said an official of the state Disaster Management Department. Over a dozen people also sustained burn injuries. [...]
Bihar Speaker on Maoist hit-list
Patna, Aug 24(TNN): The CPI (Maoist) have banned Speaker Udai Narayan Chowdhary’s from entering his assembly constituency Imamganj under Naxal-hit Gaya district. The Maoists have also put the ruling JD(U) MP from Aurangabad, another Naxal-stronghold, Sushil Kumar Singh on their hit-list and threatened to eliminate him. The Maoists have accused both the leaders of aligning [...]
Rains lash parched Bihar
Aug 24 (IANS): Rains continued to lash Bihar’s capital Patna and other parts for the fourth day Tuesday giving relief to people hit by scanty rainfall this year, even as Met officials predicted more downpour across the state Wednesday. Heavy rains lashed Patna Tuesday evening leading to water logging in some areas and affecting normal [...]
Ravi Kishan is going to perform the ritual of PindDaan
This is a traditional ritual amongst Hindus to offer Pindas for the peace of their dead ancestors. Gaya in Bihar is recognised as the best place for Pind Daan. Even Lord Rama performed this ritual there in Ramayan period. For the first time any Bhojpuri film is going to touch this subject and evergreen super [...]
Maoists ‘punish’ Bihar Speaker aide
Aug 15(The Asian Age): A close aide of the Bihar Assembly Speaker was put on public “trial” by the Maoists at a “kangaroo court” and badly beaten up for allegedly keeping local villagers’ land under illegal occupation and demolishing one villager’s house. The Maoists then threatened the Speaker, asking him not to visit his constituency. [...]
Bihar to declare more districts drought-hit
Patna, Aug 14 (IANS): The Bihar government is likely to declare more districts of the state as drought-hit as over 30 percent rainfall deficit has severely affected paddy crop, an official said on Saturday. As many as 28 districts of Bihar were declared drought-hit about 10 days ago following scanty rainfall so far this year. [...]
Kangaroo court punishes Bihar Speaker’s aide
Gaya, Aug 14(PTI): A kangaroo court of the Maoists thrashed JD(U) activist Lakhan Lal Verma, a close aide of Bihar assembly Speaker U N Choudhary, in front of villagers and TV crew in Dumaria. Verma was beaten with sticks and he suffered broken legs in the incident which took place last evening in the forest [...]
Angry mob attacks Bihar police outpost
Gaya, Aug 11 (PTI): Demanding that police hand over a man who allegedly assaulted a neighbour, angry villagers in Gaya district today attacked a police outpost and indulged in heavy stone-throwing prompting policemen to open fire in the air to disperse them. Sarvesh Singh was alleged to have assaulted a villager, identified as Nono Manjhi [...]
Central team takes stock of drought situation in Bihar
Patna, Aug 11(PTI): A central team of experts from the Agriculture Ministry, sent by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is assessing the drought situation in 28 rain deficient districts in Bihar. The team made an on-the-spot study in Vaishali, Begusarai, Sitamarhi and other districts and took the stock of damages caused to farmers and discussed relief [...]
Bihar police seize 12,000 detonators in Gaya Dist
Gaya, Aug 10: The Bihar police have seized 12,000 detonators from a dumper truck at Rajapul in Gaya District. Two pesrons Krishna Sharma and Prabhu Tiwari were arrested in the connection. “There are approximately 12000 sticks, however, we haven’t counted them as of now. Once they are counted then only the right numbers can be [...]
Bihar devotees observe Urs of Baba Mir Ali
Aug 05: Devotees of diverse faiths converged at the shrine of revered Sufi mystic, Baba Mir Ali, to observe his Urs in Gaya, Bihar. The mazaar wore a festive floral look on Wednesday. “Hundreds of people from all walks of life have gathered here, irrespective of caste, creed or religion. Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians [...]
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 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 [...]
Bihar hasn’t changed, feels Om Puri in ‘dirty’ Gaya
Gaya, Aug 03 (TNN): Cine actor Om Puri on Monday reiterated the comment he made on the sanitary conditions in Gaya town during his month-long stay here to shoot ‘Patang’, a national award winning film, in 1990s. “I still feel like picking up the broom to clean the Gaya streets,” he said. In Gaya after [...]
Slogans, songs in Bihar jails to remember Charu Mazumdar
Patna, July 30 (IANS) Hundreds of jailed Maoists and activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) Friday remembered their icon and Communist revolutionary Charu Mazumdar in different jails across Bihar, police said. Mazumdar, born in Siliguri in West Bengal, was the founding father of the Naxalite movement. He was captured on July 16, [...]
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 [...]
Myanmar ruler in India, prays at Bodh Gaya
Patna, July 25 (IANS) Myanmar’s military ruler General Than Shwe began a five-day state visit to India Sunday by offering prayers at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya in Bihar. He will reach Delhi Monday, where he will meet Indian leaders and sign several agreements. The general landed at the Gaya airport around 10.30 a.m. [...]
IAF choppers to keep tabs on Reds in state
July 17(TNN): Bihar will get two IAF MI-17 helicopters exclusively for keep-ing a tab on Maoist activities in the Naxal-affected areas of the state. A decision to the effect was taken at a meeting chaired by Union home secretary GK Pillai in New Delhi on Thursday. Bihar DGP Neelmani at-tended the meet which followed the [...]
Queen’s Baton Relay arrives in Gaya
Gaya, Jul 14(ANI): The Queen’s Baton for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games has arrived in Bihar. It was greeted by thousands of people under heavy showers. From the time the baton entered Bihar and till the time it reached Gaya, which was almost 200 kms, no street was left abandoned. People from all walks of life [...]
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 [...]
Scanty rains spark drought fears in Bihar
Patna, June 29 (IANS): Scanty monsoon rains across have triggered fears that Bihar may be headed for another drought. Monsoon normally hits the state between June 12 and 14. While the rains have begun, they have been scanty. This has had farmers in Bihar worrying. “A weak monsoon has affected paddy sowing. Till date, only [...]
Sushil Modi joins Nitish’s ‘Vishwash Yatra’
Patna, June 25 : Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s ‘Vishwash Yatra’ Friday, indicating an end to the rift between their parties. Nitish Kumar and Modi left for Aurangabad district as part of the programme ahead of assembly elections in October. The two are also slated to visit Gaya [...]
Maoist rampage: station, bank torched, police camps raided
Patna, June 15 :Maoist guerrillas in Bihar set ablaze a railway station and a bank as well as attacked a police station and a camp of the Special Auxiliary Police to enforce their two-day shutdown, officials said Tuesday. The incidents took place late Monday. Guerrillas torched the Ismailpur railway station in Gaya district on the [...]
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 [...]
Suspected Maoists demand Rs.2 mn extortion
Patna, June 1 (IANS) Suspected Maoists have demanded Rs.2 million from a government doctor in Bihar to buy arms and ammunition, police said Tuesday. The demand was made to Rajendra Singh, who heads the government referral hospital at Sherghati in Gaya district, about 100 km from here. “Maoists have called twice on Singh’s cell phone [...]
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 [...]
Monks upset over Dalai Lama not raising temple issue
Patna, May 28 (IANS) Buddhist monks in Bihar are disappointed that Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama did not raise the demand for Buddhist control over the management of the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya during his visit here. “As usual, the Dalai Lama did not raise the core issue of Buddhist control over the [...]
Hat trick for Bihar’s Super 30, all students crack IIT
Patna, May 26 (IANS) All 30 students of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for the third consecutive year, the institute announced Wednesday. “We are really upbeat and celebrating the 100 percent success for the third consecutive year as all 30 [...]
Three get life term for raping Japanese woman
Patna, May 17: A special court in Bihar Monday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for raping a 25-year-old Japanese woman near Bodh Gaya, just 26 days after it first started hearing the case. Gaya District and Sessions Judge Jayant Kumar Sen also imposed a Rs.10,000 fine on each of them, prosecution lawyer Vimal Kishor [...]
Maoists torch dumpers, rollers of construction firm
Patna, May 15 (IANS) Maoists have torched two dumpers and as many rollers of a road construction company in Bihar’s Gaya district, police said Saturday. Armed rebels late Friday attacked the temporary office of a construction firm near Sherghati in Gaya, about 100 km from here, police said. They set on fire dumpers and rollers, [...]
Former minister Sushila Sahay passes away
The Bihar NEWS, May 10: Former minister of Bihar and Socialist leader Sushila Sahay died after protracted illness at her home in Gaya on Saturday. She was 85 and is survived by a son and two daughters. She was a minister in the Karpoori Thakur cabinet in 1977-79. Her husband Dayanand Sahay was a member [...]
Storm kills 17 people in Bihar
Patna, May 7 (IANS) A powerful storm hit parts of Bihar Friday killing at least 17 people, destroying property and rendering hundreds homeless, officials said. A storm with high wind velocity and heavy rains hit several districts including Kaimur, Rohtas, Gaya, Nalanda, Khagaria, Patna, Aurangabad and Jehanabad and badly disturbed normal life, Principal Secretary (disaster [...]
Poor performance of schemes under MLA Fund in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, April 28: Schemes taken up under the MLA Fund are far from completion in many districts of Bihar. The performance of the four Maoist hit districts of Gaya, Rohtas, Aurangabad and Munger and the three out of four Kosi division districts is far from satisfactory. According to the report of the MLA [...]
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 [...]
Speedy trial begins in Japanese woman’s gangrape case
Patna, April 22 : A Bihar court Thursday began the trial into the gangrape of a Japanese woman on April 16. Three people have been arrested. The speedy trial began in the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Gaya, a day after police filed its chargesheet against the three accused. The 25-year-old Japanese woman [...]
Bihar beefs up security after rape of Japanese tourist
Patna, April 19: Three days after a Japanese woman was allegedly gangraped near Bodh Gaya in Bihar’s Gaya district, the state government has decided to enhance safety and security measures for tourists, particularly foreigners, officials said Monday. A 25-year-old Japanese woman was raped near Gaya railway station by four people, including an autorickshaw driver, Friday [...]
Millions suffer in power-starved Bihar
Patna, April 13: Electricity has become a luxury for people in most parts of urban Bihar. As the mercury soars above 43 degrees Celsius in Patna and many other places, people are opting for traditional cooling tools like hand fans to beat the heat. “We are forced to live in the lantern age. Even a [...]
Bihar to buy 200 MW electricity
Patna, April 8 (IANS) Power-starved Bihar will buy 200 MW of electricity from the open market to meet demands in the summer season, an official Thursday said. The Bihar State Electricity Board (BSEB) has invited a request for proposals (RFP) from companies across the country for this. “It was a short-term tender to purchase 200 [...]
Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha .The three most significant events in the life of Gautama Buddha occurred on the same day. His birth, enlightenment and death (nirvana), all happened on a full moon night in April/May. This makes the day – called Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti – all the more sacred for Buddhists. Below we have provided [...]
Nawada
Nawada is a city and a municipality in and headquarters of Nawada district in the Indian state of Bihar. Geography Nawada is located at 24°53 N 85°32 E24.88°N 85.53°E. It has an average elevation of 80 metres (262 feet). Kakolat Fall is a popular fall in Bihar. Many people come from different places in India [...]
Jehanabad
Jehanabad is a city and a municipality in and the headquarters of Jehanabad district in the Indian state of Bihar. Earlier, Jehanabad was part of Gaya district. It is 50 km away from both Patna and Gaya. History Jehanabad District has own history from Mugal time. As per book “aine-e-akbari”, place was affected by famine [...]
Gaya
Gaya is 100 kilometers south of Patna, the capital city of Bihar. Situated on the banks of Falgu River (Niranjana, as mentioned in Ramayana), it is a place sanctified by both the Hindu and the Buddhist religions. It is surrounded by small rocky hills (Mangla-Gauri, Shringa-Sthan, Ram-Shila and Brahmayoni) by three sides and the river [...]
Maoists attack CRPF camp in Bihar
Gaya - Bihar, Apr 3 (ANI): Heavily armed Maoists attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) base camp in Bihar’s Gaya District on Friday night. No casualties were, however, reported in the exchange of gunfire between the CRPF personnel and the rebels. It has been reported that the Maoists triggered this attack fearing that the security [...]
Banka
Banka is a city and a municipality in Banka district in the state of Bihar, India. Geography With Heavenly peace n far from moribund citylife Banka is a beautiful region of Bihar located at 24°53?N 86°55?E24.88°N 86.92°E It has an average elevation of 79 metres (259 feet). There are Colleges named P.B.S.College, Mahila College and [...]
Digha, Rajeev Nagar now legalized colonies
The Bihar News, April 01: The Bihar assembly on Wednesday passed the Digha Acquired Land Setttlement Bill 2010. Thus for the first time in the state the illegal settlements on the encroached government land acquired by the Bihar State Housing Board (BSHB) between 1973 amd 1983 has been given legal sanction, largely to appease big [...]
‘Colleges With Potential For Excellence’ status for two Bihar colleges
Patna: Gaya College, Gaya, and Samastipur College, Samastipur, have been granted the status of Colleges With Potential For Excellence by the University Grants Commission. The National Accreditation Assessment Council granted the CPE status to these two colleges in the third phase in the 12th Five Year Plan. In the first phase in the 10th Plan. [...]
