Jamshedpur: In Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, Kantha Singh is a father to 65 orphaned children. His extraordinary work fetched him the CNN-IBN Real Hero award in 2010. But two years down the line, Kantha Singh is facing the biggest challenge of his life. He doesn't have enough money to take care of his ailing wife. His wife is suffering from cancer and Kantha is helpless. He has been languishing in...
10:50 AM, May 15, 2012
Patna: Ashish Verma is someone who managed to crack the Civil Services despite being a differently-abled person. Verma has cerebral palsy. Verma couldn't attend coaching classes but overcame all odds to achieve his dreams. The son of a postal officer has never known life without cerebral palsy but this year he cracked the Civil Services exam with the 726 rank and he is now busy celebrating. "It's like a dream...
09:37 AM, May 15, 2012
Jashpur: While the country is discussing the release of IAS officer Alex Paul Menon, people seem to have forgotten the two bodyguards of the Collector who were killed by the Naxals while he was taken hostage. Ahmad Khan and Kishan Kujur were shot dead. Their families are shattered and yet to receive any condolence visit from the government. At the Kujur household, there is a pall of gloom after the...
03:24 PM, May 04, 2012
Kaimur: Some young Naxal cadres, who till very recently, were part of the armed movement, are now training with the state police force in Bihar. This has happened because of an initiative called Naxal Super 30, launched by the Kaimur district police. A total of 30 tribal youths are now a part of the training exercise. "We would have become Naxals had we not been shown a road ahead. If...
08:41 AM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Clashes broke out on Friday between supporters of two political parties at Dhanbad in Jharkhand. One person has been killed and six injured in the clashes. A mob smashed several vehicles during the violence. The clashes broke out over awarding of contracts at Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. Clashes broke out between members of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and AJSU Party. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Raxaul: Kabita Bhattarai is a lone crusader in the battle against leprosy. Setting up an ashram in a remote corner near the Bihar-Nepal border, she has treated nearly half a million patients for free in her 240-bed leprosy hospital. "The will of the god is that I serve the people who have been deprived of basic human rights," Kabita said. Born in Nepal, Kabita first started out at her mentor...
10:19 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Samastipur: In what seems to be a cruel twist of fate, a man returned home to his village in Bihar after languishing in a Pakistani jail for 35 years only to find that nothing is the same anymore. He even has no family left. Singheshwar Chaudhary has returned home only to find out that his wife, thinking him to be a dead man, married another man long ago. Singheshwar, who...
01:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is going green, quite literally. After lighting up his official residence - 1 Anne Marg - with solar energy, costing Rs 4.5 crore, his native village Kalyanbigha in Nalanda district has now got low-cost solar pumpsets installed. The demo models, as they are supposed to be, have started functioning from his native village and will be replicated elsewhere in Bihar later on. The new solar-powered...
04:53 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Motihari: A man in Bihar, Ram Kishore Singh, fought for 31 years to get a job as a teacher at a government school. He finally got it only to retire 20 days later. What is worse is that he cannot even draw a pension as he has not completed a one-year service for his job to have been confirmed. "I got this job after 31 years and got a chance...
10:29 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Patna: In a horrific incident in Bihar's Arwal district, about 80 km from Patna, a 20-year-old daily wage worker had to pay a heavy price for failing to pay a debt of Rs 300. The daily wage worker, Ram Sagar Chandravanshi, was attacked and one of his hands chopped off after he refused to work for free for a couple of contractors in lieu of Rs 300 that he owed...
02:16 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: In the densely forested Kaimur hills in Rohtas, villagers are now the Bihar Police's first line of defence against Maoists. The tribals in Rohtas district in Bihar who till yesterday didn't know much beyond sowing fields or grazing cattle are now being taught to pick up guns and shoot. The police are providing soft loans to the tribals to help them procure weapons and also training them to...
10:08 AM, Feb 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
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
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