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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
New Delhi - Rebels blew up railway tracks in India's eastern states of Orissa and Bihar, disrupting train services to enforce a general strike in the region Monday, news reports said. Guerrillas blew up the tracks near Orissa's northern industrial ci...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
US Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer, who is on a two-day visit to Bihar, presented a gift hamper to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, official sources said here Friday.
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
New Delhi, Feb. 2: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has challenged the Centre's plans to strip the deemed university status of one of India's foremost Buddhist schools, offering the first glimpse of politics that could shroud action against such institutions.
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
With an eye on the assembly elections due this year end, All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi set out on a tour of Bihar on Monday and said the Congress will go it alone like the party did for Lok Sabha polls in the National Democratic Alliance-ruled state.
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View From a New Vrindaban Ridge (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
By Staff Writer for Press Trust of India on 23 Jan 2010 Al-Qaeda militant Ghulam Rasool Khan alias Khan Mirza, who was formally arrested in Purnia in Bihar while trying to cross over to Bangladesh early this week, has put forward an unusual demand. “Provide me two kg of mutton and one kg [...]
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
A new United Nations study finds that India's recent economic growth has been an uneven one. Uneven meaning that some states in India have had poverty numbers reduced while others have increased. From Headlines India, we find out more of the study's conclusions. "In recent years, economic growth has been relatively high in three largest countries in the region, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
New Delhi - Thousands of people, protesting against rising food prices, blocked roads and rail tracks bringing life to a standstill in India's eastern Bihar state Thursday, news reports said. There were sporadic incidents of violence with some protes...
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LIVE ON CAMPUS :: the world is your campus :: (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
' An article in The Hindustan times on 21 st January 2010 had a headline, ‘BJP leaders urge PM to rein in prices, which makes the readers feel as if BJP is criticizing Congress like an opposition who always opposes. However, it didn’t say a word against Congress, who has so far failed in reducing food prices. All the articles of HT have been pro-Congress. The point is, where is the true...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
PATNA: In view of Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s remarks about a milk shortage in North India, the Bihar Government on Saturday appealed to the Centre to put on hold export of milk-based products, especially casein, which ...
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Got2BeGreen (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
D IGHT RECEIVES United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) APPROVAL FOR GROUND-BREAKING CARBON OFFSET PROJECT New Delhi, India - D.light Design today announced that it has received approval from the UNFCCC for a ground-breaking carbon offset project in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India
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Sify (Free subscription) | 01/14/2010
Demanding the removal of Bihar state Congress chief Anil Sharma and Jagdish Tytler, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) official in charge of the party's affairs there, Congress leaders from the state are planning to meet party president Sonia Gandhi here Thursday, sources said.
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
On a day when a CPM bandh crippled rail and road, a former railway minister and Bihar chief minister rubbed it in. "Rail roko ke baare mein to Bharat ko Bengal hi sikhaya hai (Bengal taught India about rail disruptions)," said Lalu Prasad, soon after paying a visit to the ailing Jyoti Basu.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Hajipur (Bihar): A branch manager of Sahara India was shot dead on Wednesday by unidentified persons who also looted Rs.9 lakh from him in Bihar’s Vaishali district, police said. The incident happened near Rahsa village in the ...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
3 motorcycle-borne gunmen stopped Praveen Kumar, when he was returning to the bank after collection and fired from close range.
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 01/12/2010
The snap cold that has so far claimed around 300 lives continued to sweep swathes of north India, affecting normal life and forcing closure of schools in Bihar and Rajasthan.
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hotbaby | 10/17/2008
Patna: A team of experts from Gujarat, helping the Bihar government prepare a strategy for rehabilitating flood victims, has advised against allowing anyone including Bollywood stars and voluntary organisations from adopting flood-hit villages.