India

PATNA—A crying schoolboy exposed the Bihar government’s intensive drive to enforce total prohibition in the state. The boy who studies in a upgraded middle school in Rohtas’s Tilauthu block had been asked by the teacher to come with…
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PATNA—A court in Bihar has created a record by completing a rape case trial and also handing out punishment t the accused in a single day. Biharsharif court in Nalanda set the record on Saturday by hearing, convicting and sentencing the…
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PATNA—An angry woman voter in India locked her husband in a room for hours after he didn’t vote for the candidate she had asked for. The woman, a resident of Pandarak block in Bihar’s Patna district, had asked her hubby to vote for a…
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PATNA—With the pressures building up on the Janata Dal United (JD-U) leadership to review the total prohibition it enforced more than five years back in Bihar, the main opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has asked the BJP to withdraw…
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By SHYAMHARI CHAKRA The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $300 million loan to strengthen and improve access to comprehensive primary health care in urban areas of 13 states that will…
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PATNA—Authorities in Bihar have found Rs1 crore (Rs10 million) and two kilograms of gold bars concealed in the bank locker of a government school teacher. Acting on information about the alleged links of the teacher with some bad…
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In what has given the Opposition fresh fodder to attack the Nitish Kumar government, a NITI Aayog report has said that Bihar has the most number of poor people in the country. According to NITI Aayog's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI),…
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By SHYAMHARI CHAKRA Indian researchers studying an unnamed glacier in one of the less explored region in the upper Kali Ganga valley, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, India, have reported that the glacier had abruptly changed its…
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PATNA—In a major reprieve to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad, a special CBI court on Tuesday accepted his request of not appearing in court in person in a fodder scam case. Prasad had been directed by the court to appear…
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NEW DELHI/PATNA—In a setback to the Congress party, cricketer-turned-politician Kirti Jha Azad on Tuesday joined the Miss Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC). A member of the 1983 Cricket world cup winning squad, Azad was…
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