All Entries Tagged With: "Kishanganj"
SSB beefs up vigil along Indo-Nepal border
Purina, Sep 05(TNN): Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has beefed up surveillance along the entire Bihar-Nepal border from Galgalia (Kishanganj) to Jogbani (Araria) has against the backdrop of sudden spurt in the Naxal activities in Bihar. All border outposts (BOPs) along the long and porous Bihar-Nepal border have been alerted to keep constant vigil on movement [...]
Entire Bihar is drought hit, says Nitish Kumar
Patna, Aug 15 (PTI): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday declared entire Bihar as drought-hit and said his government was taking various measure to provide relief to the affected farmers. “Bihar is facing natural calamity for the fourth year in succession … While the state faced devastating floods in 2007 and 2008, drought has hit [...]
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. [...]
BJP holds first Muslim meet in Bihar after 12 years
Patna, Aug 08 (The Hindu): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday held a Muslim conclave for the first time in a decade in Bihar. In the party’s first minority meet since 1998, top State leaders echoed the motif that the State’s Muslim minorities were edging closer towards the BJP, while declaiming that the Congress [...]
Parties settle down to nitty-gritties of seat-sharing in Bihar
Patna, Aug 07(PTI): With Bihar assembly polls scheduled later this year, both ruling NDA and RJD-LJP alliance have started burning the midnight oil trying to give final shape to the contentious issue of seat-sharing, with major partners eyeing the lion’s share. Other parties like the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party of Uttar Pradesh chief minister [...]
Women give ‘birth’ to 5 children in 2 months in Bihar
Patna, July 26 (IANS) A woman, as everyone knows, usually gives birth to a baby after nine months of pregnancy, but in Bihar 298 women claim to have delivered two to five children in a span of 60 days – at least that’s what records of incentives amount given to new mothers under a government [...]
Monsoon hits Bihar
Patna, June 18:Monsoon rains have finally lashed parts of Bihar, bringing respite to millions seeking escape from a scorching summer. Purnea, Supaul, Kishanganj, Muzaffarpur and Araria districts experienced moderate to heavy rainfall. “This is enough indication that conditions for the onset of monsoon have turned favourable and monsoon has finally arrived in Bihar,” Animesh Chandra, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nitish playing politics on Central University in Motihari
The Bihar NEWS, May 02: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Friday that the state government would give land for the Central University of Bihar nowhere else but in Motihari. Addressing a public meeting during the Vishwas Yatra he warned that the state would not allow any delay or attempt by the Centre to [...]
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 [...]
Disaster management minister absent as storm victims await relief
Patna, April 16 (IANS) The storm that ravaged eastern parts of Bihar has claimed 81 lives and thousands who lost their homes are waiting for relief, but Disaster Management Minister Devesh C. Thakur has been Delhi instead of overseeing relief work here, officials said. “Sir (Thakur) has been in Delhi for the last few days,” [...]
Toll in Bihar storm rises to 81
Patna, April 15 (IANS) The death toll from a violent storm that ravaged the eastern part of Bihar rose to 81 Thursday, a day after it left a trail of destruction rendering thousands homeless. The high-velocity storm ravaged the Seemanchal region including the districts of Araria, Purnia, Kishanganj, Katihar and Supaul districts. The number of [...]
Ferocious storm kills 96 in Bihar, Bengal
Thu, Apr 15: A Freak storm preceded by hurricane-force winds killed nearly a hundred people in four blocks of North Dinajpur district in West Bengal and Araria, Purnea and Kishanganj districts of Bihar around midnight on Tuesday. While 31 people were killed and more than 50 injured in West Bengal, the toll was around 65 [...]
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 [...]
Kishanganj
Kishanganj is a city and a municipality in Kishanganj district in the Indian state of Bihar Geography Kishanganj is located at 25°42′N 86°57′E25.7°N 86.95°E. It has an average elevation of 42 metres (137 feet). The Ramzan river crosses through the middle of the town, which adds more attraction to the beauty of the city.This is [...]
Katihar
Katihar is a city and a municipality in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the administrative headquarters of Katihar district. Geography Katihar is located at 25°32′N 87°35′E25.53°N 87.58°E. It has an average elevation of 20 metres (65 feet). The main rivers of the District are mighty Ganga (southern boundary, 25 kilometers [...]
ABVP shutdown begins in Bihar
Patna, April 1 : The statewide dawn-to-dusk shutdown in Bihar called by the students organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Thursday, to protest the government’s decision to set up a branch of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Kishanganj, began on a peaceful note with no reports of violence. Police sources said security forces were [...]
Araria
Araria is a city and a municipality in Araria district in the state of Bihar, India. Geography Araria is located at 26°09?N 87°31?E26.15°N 87.52°E. It has an average elevation of 47 metres (154 feet). Geographical Location Araria is situated at the northern part of Purnia and Madhepura in Bihar. Borders of Araria are surrounded by [...]
Nitish justifies setting up AMU branch in Kishanganj
Patna, March 30 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar justified the government’s decision to set up a branch of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) at Kishanganj district in the state in the wake of opposition by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and students organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). “There should not be any opposition to [...]
ABVP activists lathicharged, 12 arrested in Patna
Patna, Mar 29: Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad were lathicharged by the police and 12 arrested as they staged protest outside the Bihar Assembly against the opening of a branch of Aligarh Muslim University in the state’s Kishanganj district, media reports. The activists demanded that the university should be opened in Katihar, as originally [...]
