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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Patna, July 22 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has criticised the government sponsored scheme of providing vocational training to Muslim girls in Bihar. VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia said the scheme, ‘Hunar’ (skills), was an example of appeasement of Muslims by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. “By launching schemes like ‘Hunar’ exclusively for Muslim girls, [...]
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Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
India's longest river bridge is under threat. Stressed beyond limit, the mammoth 5.575-km-long cantilever bridge is groaning under the weight of heavy traffic.
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"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Women’s empowerment is getting a new resonance in an underdeveloped Bihar district. Kishanganj, which didn’t have a district hospital till a few years back, is witnessing a revolution with an NGO teaching reproductive and sexual healthcare to teenage girl . The tale of attitudinal change through innovation and conviction is worth recounting. The adolescent reproductive and sexual healthcare programme...
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"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Bihar residents are beginning to take to the idea of "safe sex". A fear of sexually transmitted diseases/AIDS, which has now gripped the state, perhaps, forced the masses to become more aware about their safety and turn to condoms, which were erstwhile considered a taboo among the uneducated populace of the state.According to an official report, nearly 1.10 crore (10.1 million) condoms were used by...
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Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Many of Bihar’s 90 million inhabitants come from low-caste backgrounds and are unable to even sign their own name. Consequently if you are born in the northeastern Indian state - the country’s poorest - you are unlikely to ever be studying in the Indian Institutes of Technology, among the most sought-after universities in the world. [...]
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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 [...]
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India eNews: Top Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Bihar will announce its new IT policy with several incentives for firms in August, state IT Minister Anil Kumar said here Saturday.
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Patna, July 19 (IANS) The builders of three Buddhist monasteries under construction in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya are to be booked for violating the master plan, an official said Saturday. Irked by the open violation of the master plan near Mahabodhi temple, Buddhism’s holiest shrine in Bodh Gaya, Magadh Divisional Commissioner K.P. Ramiyah directed the officials [...]
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
By Imran Khan Patna, July 19 (IANS) She is in her 70s, but age has not deterred Janaki Devi, a widow living in a Bihar town, from taking up cudgels for her pet dog Chhotu - just like she did five years ago. Chhotu is like any other pet dog, fiercely loyal to its elderly mistress [...]
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Patna, July 18: As the NDA-Left and the UPA engage in fierce campaigns to ramp up numbers ahead of the trust vote, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today predicted Manmohan Singh government's defeat as "imminent".
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Sitamarhi: An FIR was registered on Friday against four Bihar Government employees on the charge of defalcation of Rs. 3.85 crore meant for rural development projects under Parihar block in Sitamarhi district, official sources said. ...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Patna, July 17: Rajendra Nagar, the neighbourhood of Bihar's deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, is presently flooded and stinking.
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Government on Thursday approved the setting up of eight new IITs in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Patna: The Bihar Industrial Area Development authority (BIADA) has allotted 25 acres of land for setting up multi-speciality Apollo Hospital at Bihta in Patna, according to official sources. The authority had allotted 12 acres of land ...
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merinews - citizen powered media (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
IITs are proposed to be set up in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Each IIT will cost Rs 760 crore for a period of six years, taking the total cost to around 6080 crore.
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rockport | 07/16/2008
Bihar has left other states behind in free distribution of condoms in India, officials at the state's AIDS control society said here Wednesday.
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rockport | 07/14/2008
Check out Latest News A young housewife was dragged out of a train in Bihar and allegedly raped by some miscreants on way to her in-laws' place here, the city police said on Sunday.
