
Patna: World Bank chairman Robert B Zoellick would be on a two-day visit to Bihar from Wednesday on the occasion of signing of an agreement with Bihar government for a Rs 1000 crore soft loan for rebuilding areas affected by the 2008 Kosi floods. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that Zoellick would be present during the signing of the agreement on Wednesday. The loan would facilitate reconstruction of about 1...

06:06 PM, Jan 11, 2011

United Nations: India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri handed over the cheque for 20 million dollars to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, as India's contribution towards the 'Pakistan Emergency Response Plan'. The cheque was handed over to Ban in the presence of Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon on Friday. Puri recalled the messages of solidarity, sympathy and support from Prime Minister Manmohan...

11:51 AM, Sep 18, 2010

The Bihar government on Saturday returned Rs 5 crore that was given by Gujarat for Kosi flood relief. ...

11:12 AM, Jun 19, 2010

KPCC is facing allegations that the money collected by the party for flood relief has been misappropriated. ...

07:41 AM, Jun 09, 2010

Karnataka Congress chief RV Deshpande allegedly spent Rs 40 lakh for office use and Rs 5 lakh on advertisements. ...

08:04 PM, Jun 08, 2010

Nitish Kumar has said that the Centre is shelving Bihar's requests. ...

06:49 PM, Aug 03, 2009

The Congress is still aggressively wooing Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. ...

05:49 PM, May 12, 2009

Kosi embankment tore up in April, but repairs were ignored. ...

02:55 AM, Sep 22, 2008

Former Ranji captain of Mumbai, Shishir Hattangadi looks ahead to game 12 of IPL-4. ...

11:07 PM, Jan 15, 2008

New Delhi: The IPL mess shows no signs of stopping whatsoever, as murmurs of the players' auctions being rigged are now doing the rounds. This after the richest franchise in the league - the Mumbai Indians shot off a letter to the Governing Council, accusing it off changing the auction norms at the very last moment, without any justification. It is this letter which looks more like an official complaint,...

12:51 AM, Dec 05, 2007