
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajpaksa, accompanied by his wife Shiranthi Rajpaksa and a 70-member delegation, on Friday arrived at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya for pilgrimage. ...

02:26 PM, Feb 08, 2013

Bodh Gaya: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was on Wednesday presented the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation on the fourth day of the ten-day Kalachakra initiations. The grand daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Ila Gandhi, presented the award, instituted in 2003, to the Dalai Lama at the Kalachakra ground in Bodh Gaya. Ila Gandhi, who is based in South Africa, is chairman of the Gandhi Development Trust,...

06:55 PM, Jan 04, 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

On April 16, five people allegedly raped the woman when she was on her way to the Gaya railway station. ...

11:07 AM, May 17, 2010

New Delhi: Out-of-favour batsman Robin Uthappa reckons impact player Yusuf Pathan along with Sachin Tendulkar will be India's trump cards in the forthcoming ICC World Cup to be held in the subcontinent from February 19. The hard-hitting Karnataka opener, who has been out of reckoning since 2008, said Yusuf apart, Sachin Tendulkar's form over the next couple of months will also be crucial to India's fortunes. Yusuf Pathan is the...

05:51 PM, Dec 07, 2007

Many villages in Bihar and Orissa have become dumping grounds for industrial waste. ...

07:22 PM, Feb 20, 2007