People performing pind daan rituals in Gaya Gaya: Streets and prominent public spaces in Gaya will get a cultural makeover ahead of this year’s Pitripaksh mela, with paintings depicting pind daan, tarpan and other aspects of Bihar’s religious and cultural heritage.The district administration has launched first-of-its-kind initiative ‘Paint the City’ competition to encourage public participation…
Gaya: The Gaya Bar Association has threatened to launch an agitation if construction of a new bar association building at the allotted site on the civil court premises does not begin soon.The association alleged that site inspection, measurement and other pre-construction formalities had been completed, but officials of the building construction department had not initiated…
Patna: JD(U) MLA from Mokama, Anant Singh, on Tuesday attributed the BJP’s decision to replace former chief minister and JD(U) national president Nitish Kumar with its own leader as chief minister as one of the major reasons for the party’s defeat in the Bankipur bypoll. Singh, however, clarified that this was his assessment of the…
Patna: AICC in charge of NSUI, Kanhaiya Kumar, on Tuesday alleged that police had used force against student protesters last month in violation of prescribed procedures and provisions of the police manual.Addressing reporters at the party’s state headquarters, Kanhaiya said his observations were based on an interim report of a fact-finding committee (FFC) constituted by…
Patna: The agriculture department on Tuesday suspended the licences of seven fertilizer and pesticide dealers in Motihari and recalled the East Champaran district agriculture officer to the state headquarters following inspections aimed at detecting irregularities in the storage and sale of agricultural inputs.According to a communique issued by the department, the action followed reports of…
Patna: As the sanitation workers’ strike continued for nearly a week, hostels across Boring Road and Boring Canal Road — home to hundreds of students preparing for competitive examinations — are grappling with mounting heaps of garbage within their premises. Hostel owners and residents said the stench from the accumulated waste has spread to the…
Madhubani: Ahead of Independence Day, the district administration has launched an initiative to give Class XI and XII students an opportunity to experience the working of the govt by spending a day along with senior administrative and police officers.The initiative, titled ‘officer for a day’, has been launched as part of this year’s Independence Day…
People protest against the police administration over the failure to trace 11-year-old Gautam Kumar in West Champaran Police at the protest site in West Champaran Relatives of the missing boy block NH-727 in West Champaran People protest against the police administration over the failure to trace 11-year-old Gautam Kumar in West Champaran Police at the…
Police with the recovered idols in East Champaran Patna: Police recovered stolen Ashtadhatu idols of Lord Ram and Lakshman and Goddess Sita within an hour of their theft from a Ram-Janaki temple under Lakhaura police station area of East Champaran on Tuesday and arrested a person in connection with the case. The idols and a…
No casualties or injuries were reported, though one coach gutted in the blaze Patna: A coach of the Samastipur-Saharsa MEMU train caught fire at Simri Bakhtiyarpur railway station in Saharsa district early Monday, triggering panic among passengers and disrupting rail traffic for nearly two hours. No casualties or injuries were reported, though one coach gutted…
