Thirteen policemen were killed in a landmine blast on Saturday in a Naxal strike in Garhwa district of Jharkhand. One sub-inspector was missing after the Naxal strike. ...
02:13 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Thirteen policemen were killed in a landmine blast on Saturday in a Naxal strike in Garhwa district of Jharkhand. One sub-inspector was missing after the Naxal strike. ...
02:13 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Patna: A huge scam has come up in the education department of Bihar wherein one third of the government school students in the state exist only on paper. Huge sums of money have been siphoned off to avail government benefits like free uniform, bicycle, mid-day meal and scholarships. The scam, running into crores, has shown that 1/3 of Bihar's students do not exist. As many as 3,36,000 ghost students, from...
06:46 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's much lauded free education scheme has allegedly turned into a multi-crore scam with over 3 lakh fake student enrolments come to light. The case came to light when most of the students were found to have been enrolled in several schools simultaneously. In fact a few were enrolled in government schools but were found to be studying at private schools. According to Bihar government's...
03:24 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Bodh Gaya: Jeanne Pere, a retired French teacher, has left France to make Bodh Gaya her home with a mission to provide free education, healthcare and a better life to her neighbourhood that she now calls her Bihar family. Till yesterday, children at Pere's locality were loitering about, doing nothing. But due to sustained efforts of Jeanee Pere, life is different today - they are taking singing classes and are...
03:01 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Aurangabad: In Bihar school students have become the silent victims to the crossfire between the state and the Maoists. A government school building that was blown up by the Naxals in 2009. Two years on, the building still hasn't been repaired, but classes continue to be held in the compound for over 500 students. The children say that it's frightening to study in the shadow of terror. "Our school was...
06:44 AM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: Naxals have struck again the second time in 48 hours. They've blown up a key rail route in Jharkhand's Latehar district. No casualties have been reported but several trains on the Kolkata-Ranchi-Delhi route have been affected. This attack comes barely a day after Maoists targeted former assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari's convoy. He managed to escape unhurt, but his escort vehicle was caught in what top police officials...
07:16 AM, Dec 04, 2011
Vaishali: A group of children in Bihar have found a unique way to highlight their everyday problems. They have turned reporters to create awareness about child marriage, child labour and other issues. All of 12, Kajal's awareness about issues is exemplary. The child crusader, part of the child reporter brigade in Bihar's Vaishali district, has been taking on the cause of child labour, child marriage, environment protection and civic consciousness...
08:58 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Ranchi: The needle of suspicion in the murder of activist nun Sister Valsa, is now pointing at the coal mafia after her family claimed she received death threats. There's also a political angle that is emerging. "This might be a case of political killing. It will be probed into," said Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda. Sister's Valsa's murder has taken a political colour in Jharkhand with both the ruling coalition...
08:27 AM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: A sudden spurt in employment opportunities in Bihar is posing a peculiar problem for the rest of the country. More than 50 per cent of Bihar's labour force which usually migrates to other states is choosing to stay back for jobs. Till a few years back, Ram Vilas worked as construction labour in Delhi. With Bihar's economy looking up, Vilas has returned to the pavilion, armed with a...
06:28 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Gaya: More than a thousand children are feared to have been affected by the Japanese encephalitis in Bihar's Gaya district. One child has been dying everyday for the last three months in the district. This outbreak comes even as Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh battles against Viral encephalitis. Shafina Khatun's world has come crashing down on her. Her 2-year old daughter succumbed to Japanese encephalitis, but she hasn't even had time...
08:17 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Gaya: A total of 84 children have died in Gaya in Bihar in the last 80 days due to symptoms similar to encephalitis. More than a dozen children are still admitted in the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College in Gaya. The children aged between two to eight years were brought in with high fever. According to the medical college, 384 children have been admitted so far, of which 244 have...
11:21 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Hazipur: It looks like another team Anna campaign against corruption. Look again though, and you realise Ajay Kumar is agitating for a probe against his own father in the name of Anna - alleging his father amassed wealth beyond his means as a government servant. But it's here that the story gets curiouser. CNN-IBN found that Ajay's father lives in a typical lower middle class house in Hazipur, with no...
10:41 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Motihari: A hysterical crowd greeted the man who's now a celebrity. Overnight, Sushil Kumar's home in Motihari, Bihar has become the best known address. The narrow lanes and the thatched house, where Kumar lives, has seen nonstop celebrations. None in his family had ever dreamt of having even few lakh rupees together in their kitty. Today, they have 50 million rupees to spend. Sushil's wife Seema who he married just...
07:16 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Patna: A retired IPS officer in Bihar JK Sinha has set up a free English-medium residential school to educate 200 young Musahar boys. It's a big step for the tribe which is one of the state's most backward communities. Every morning, the national anthem instills pride and courage in 120 inmates of the residential school. One of the students Pankaj said, "This school gives us all the basic amenities that...
09:56 AM, Nov 04, 2011
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