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Patna, Aug 7 (IANS) The Patna High Court Thursday ordered the organisation representing non-teaching staff of colleges in Bihar to end their month-long strike within 48 hours. The strike call by the Bihar State University and College Employees’ Federation has paralyzed the the higher education in the state. “The court ordered Bihar State University and [...]
Second Life Herald (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Patna, Aug 2 (ANI): A team of new porcupines is becoming a major attraction in a zoo here. Patnas Sanjay Gandhi Zoo boasts of ten new Indian porcupines including a porcupette, a baby porcupine. According to reports, a man found these rare Indian porcupines at his residence in Patna. He then handed over these porcupines to [...]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Patna, Aug 2 (IANS) It’s official now. Bihar’s dream of setting up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is set to become a reality Aug 6. Classes will begin from the next day. Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh is scheduled to inaugurate IIT Patna here on Aug 6. The institute will operate out of a [...]
Aviation India (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Patna: The good performance of Jet Airways in the first quarter of the current fiscal notwithstanding, India's largest private airline has decided to suspend its Patna-Delhi flight from August 11 to September 30. An official e-mail in this regard was recently sent to the Jet local office here after which ticket booking on and after August 11 is not being taken up at the local office. Though airline...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Baksar ( Bihar ), July 19 (ANI): Railway police has rescued about 40 tortoises from Baksar in Bihar and handed them over to a zoological park in Patna . The tortoises were found abandoned at the Baksar station in Bihar on Friday. The smugglers were reportedly taking them from Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal . Police handed [...]
rediff News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
At least 20 people were killed when a jeep carrying a marriage party fell into a water-filled ditch in Patna in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Patna, July 13 (IANS) Seven people were arrested Sunday in connection with the brutal killings of a top Patna civic official and his wife here earlier this month, the police said. Manzar Alam, the 50-year-old Bihar Administrative Service officer serving as Patna Municipal Corporation secretary, and his wife were murdered July 3 in their Haroon [...]
India eNews: Top Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Seven people were arrested Sunday in connection with the brutal killings of a top Patna civic official and his wife here earlier this month, the police said.
rediff News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Lok Janashakti Party member of parliament from Balia, Suraj Singh alias Surajbhan Singh on Thursday challenged before the Patna High Court his conviction for a life term in a murder case by a Begusarai fast track court.
IndianPad - Popular Stories (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Ugly scenes were witnessed at the Miss Bihar Beauty Contest in Patna on Tuesday after some contestants alleged that the competition was rigged. The incident took place at the Krishna Memorial Hall, when the beauty contest had entered its final round. Contestants who had been eliminated in the previous round stormed the stage, seized the microphone and started shouting slogans. The women alleged that...
India eNews: Top Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The city-based realtor Parsvnath Developers Ltd announced Friday that it has won a Rs.1.25 billion ($30 million) order to build a Buddha Smriti Udhyaan in Patna.
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Patna, Aug 6 (IANS) Jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) parliamentarian Mohammad Shahabuddin was granted bail by a court here Wednesday in a case related to illegal possession of arms in March 2001. A division bench of the Patna High Court granted bail to Shahabuddin, but the MP will remain in Siwan jail as he is [...]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
By Ajay Kumar Patna, June 18 (ANI): The neighbourhood of Gardani Bagh near Patna is elated these days since a five-month-old calf has started giving milk. The awestruck residents believe its some miracle and have started worshipping the calf as reincarnation of Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth. The calf was noticed to be not keeping well [...]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Patna, Aug 5 (IANS) This dog has finally has its day as a Bihar court gave a clean chit to Chhotu, a widow’s pet dog, after some neighbours had complained it was creating trouble in the neighbourhood. The court of the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) in Purnea district, about 300 km from here, made it clear [...]
