All Entries Tagged With: "Nalanda"
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. [...]
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 [...]
Lightning kills eight, injures 10 in Bihar
Biharsharif/Nawada, Aug 24 (PTI): Eight people were killed and 10 others injured when lightning struck them in Bihar’s Nalanda and Nawada districts today. Four members of a family were killed when lightning struck them while they were sitting outside their house at Baili village in Nalanda district, police said. In the adjoining Nawada district, four [...]
Nalanda univ bill passed
Aug 22 (Hindustan Times): Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed a bill to establish a transnational university at Nalanda in Bihar, once considered a seat of learning in ancient India. The university, to be set up under the guidance of an interim board, headed by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, proposes to attract students and faculty from [...]
JD-U to chalk out Bihar poll strategy
Aug 18 (IANS): Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday began a two-day meet in Nalanda district to chalk out the strategy for the upcoming assembly election. The session in Rajgir was jointly inaugurated by party president Sharad Yadav and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Sharad Yadav said the party will discuss the strategy to take on [...]
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. [...]
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 stares at drought again
Patna, July 30 (IANS) : Bihar plans to declare more than two dozen districts drought hit soon, with the state already recording a 20 percent rainfall deficit, officials said Friday. An official in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s office said the decision was likely to be taken in the next cabinet meeting in a day or two. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Lightning kills 20 in Bihar
Patna, July 11 (IANS) At least 20 people, including women and children, have been killed by lightning across Bihar since Saturday, an official said. “In the last 24 hours, at least 20 people, including three children and two women, have been killed by bolts of lightning across Bihar,” an official of the state Disaster Management [...]
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 [...]
Nitish inaugurates new rail lines, two ROBs in Bihar
Patna, June 29 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated Rs 180 crore Rajgir-Tilaiya railway line at Rajgir, besides two road overbridges in Patna on Tuesday. The new railway line would ease the problem of the people travelling to Tilaiya in Jharkhand and would help in supply of coal to the NPC unit at Barh, [...]
Bridge over Ganga first project under PPP in Bihar
The Bihar NEWS, Jun 16: The chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Tuesday that the mega bridge over river Ganga between Bakhtiarpur in Patna district and Tajpur in Samastipur district would be the first such project to be built under the Public Private Partnership mode. This is historic day and one example of changing Bihar, [...]
Theft in Samridhi office, police yet to take action
The Bihar NEWS, May 25: Thieves broke into the office of Samridhi in Ekangarsarai block of Nalanda district on Sunday and decamped with computer and other goods from there. Samridhi is an organization run by IIM pass-out Kaushlendra to promote horticulture farming and its marketing in Bihar. Though he made investment in the state after [...]
Nalanda girl tops again in Bihar Board exam
The Bihar NEWS, May 25: Like last year the topper of the Class-X Bihar School Examination Board once again hailed from Nalanda, the home district of the chief minister, Nitish Kumar and human resources development minister, Hari Narayan Singh. Five of the six top candidates are girls. What is more, like the first topper, Anupam [...]
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 [...]
Patna
Patna is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world. The modern city of Patna lies on the southern bank of the Ganges. The city also straddles the rivers Kosi, Sone and Gandak. The population is 1.8 million people. Patna is approximately 25 km [...]
Nalanda
Nalanda is the name of an ancient university in Bihar, India. The site of Nalanda is located in the Indian state of Bihar, about 55 miles south east of Patna, and was a Buddhist center of learning from 427 to 1197 CE. It has been called “one of the first great universities in recorded history.” [...]
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 [...]
Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur is a city and municipal corporation in the Bihar state of Eastern India. Bhagalpur is one of the oldest districts of Bihar located in the Southern region. It is situated in the plane of the Ganga basin at the height of 141 feet above sea level. It covers an area of 2569.50 sq. km. [...]
