Patna: Chief minister Samrat Choudhary on Monday appealed to people of Bihar, especially businessmen and industrialists doing business outside the state, to come back and invest.Speaking at a function organised by the Bihar Fire Services Department at Gandhi Maidan here, where he flagged off 80 state-of-the-art fire brigade vehicles and an AI-based integrated command centre,…
Patna: Preparations are on for a major technological overhaul to tackle both conventional crimes and emerging criminal trends. The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has set a six-month target to fully digitise investigation-related work across the state.Under the new system, charge sheets and final reports linked to FIRs will no longer be accepted in physical form…
Patna: The three-day state conference of the CPI(ML), held in Darbhanga, concluded on Monday with a call to launch a mass contact programme from May 20 to reach out to 10 lakh poor families across Bihar. The party also announced active support for the strike by agricultural workers scheduled for the same day.A key outcome…
Image used for representation Patna: Continuing its crackdown on crime, Patna Police arrested two criminals while injuring one of them in an encounter in the early hours of Monday.This is the third police encounter in Patna in past one month.The incident took place in Bhagwat Nagar area near the GAIL CNG fuel station on the…
Bhagalpur: The sighting of endangered Indian Skimmer birds along a 60-km stretch of the Ganga between Sultanganj and Kahalgaon under the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary (VGDS) in Bhagalpur district after nearly 20 years has highlighted significant improvement in the river’s ecological health.Known for their distinctive elongated lower beaks and low-flight fishing technique, Indian Skimmers (Rynchops…
Image used for representation Patna: The Bihar govt is planning large-scale infrastructure development along the Ganga river corridor, with a major focus on improving connectivity between Patna and western Bihar. As part of the initiative, a new four-lane road named ‘Vishwamitra Path’ will be constructed along a 90-km embankment stretch between Maner and Buxar.The proposed…
Biharsharif: Nalanda University will organise its third convocation ceremony on Tuesday at the newly constructed ‘Vishwamitralaya’ auditorium on the university campus, where degrees will be awarded to 219 students representing 14 countries.The university’s second convocation was held at its net-zero campus on April 1 this year and was attended by the President Droupadi Murmu. The…
Image used for representation Patna: Ankit Kumar Singh (26), an accused in Jamapur gold shop robbery case, was shot in the leg by police during a chase on Monday morning. Ankit, a resident of Chandpur Ghurghat village under Siswan police station area, was allegedly involved in robbery of gold worth around Rs20 lakh from a…
Image used for representation Patna: A gang of masked criminals looted jewellery, cash and other valuables worth lakhs of rupees from the house of two pharmaceutical businessmen on Bihta-Sugar Mill Road under Bihta police station area in Patna in the early hours of Sunday.The victims, Rajiv Bharti and Sanjeev Bharti, run pharmaceutical agencies in the…
Biharsharif: Nalanda University on Sunday organised “Shastrarth 2026” and the programme would continue on Monday, ahead of its third convocation scheduled on May 19, reviving the ancient tradition of scholarly debate linked to the historic Nalanda Mahavihara.For the first time, the university has formally included Shastrarth in its academic calendar to promote intellectual dialogue, logical…
