In Sheikhpura, the district police raided a hotel in Chandni Chowk and arrested a girl, found in compromising position with six youths.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar announced on Tuesday that the Covid-19 induced lockdown in the state is being lifted, adding that the night curfew, though, will continue. “Lockdown has led to a decline in Covid-19 cases. Therefore, the lockdown is being lifted by the 7pm to 5am night curfew will[Read More…]
Banka Nagar police station in-charge Shambhu Kumar said that a bomb exploded in a Madrasa, located near a mosque, on Tuesday morning in Navtolia area.
Taking to Twitter, Yadav wrote, “Tributes to the founder member of Rashtriya Janata Dal, former Union Minister, senior socialist leader MNREGA man, respected Raghuvansh Babu Ji on his birth anniversary.”
After Upendra Kushwaha and Sanjay Singh, Umesh Thakur, the Siwan district president of the JD-U, jumped into the fray and said that Pandey has a long criminal history. He had also molested a young girl in a train.
The businessman-MP has been arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), according to the officials.
Chitranjan Gagan, the spokesperson of the RJD, said that the rural medical infrastructure of Bihar was ranked 12, as per the Planning Commission index of 2005.
The two comprised a reporter from Buxar who cited alleged fraud in the inauguration of an ambulance by Union Minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey and a reporter from Gaya, who sought to focus on alleged wrongdoings in a local hospital.
The Bihar government issued a letter on May 23, restraining Ministers who were assigned as the Ministers in-charge during the lockdown period.
According to Dr Sanjeev Kumar, the nodal officer for COVID-19 at AIIMS, Patna, Pradeep Kumar, a 32-year-old junior resident who hailed from Sheohar district in north Bihar, breathed his last on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Manjhi, a former chief minister and president of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) raised serious objection over the photograph of Modi on vaccination certificates.
The government health centre in Sukki village in Madhubani’s Khajauli has become a shelter for stray animals. The ruined structure accommodating cattle used to be the second-largest hospital in Bihar’s Madhubani.
Citing rural health statistics of the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, he said that 10,337 health sub-centres were operational in 2005, but in 2020, these had come down to 9,112 and a majority of them are non-operational.
The state’s fatality rate in May (till May 21) is 180 per cent higher as compared to April this year. While the health department registered 989 deaths in April, from May 1 to May 21, as many as 1,779 fatalities have been reported from across the state.
According to the health department, 103 deaths were reported since the previous day, making it the third occasion during the week for the state to have reported fatalities in three digits.
On Wednesday, pertaining to Yadav’s Covid care centre, health minister Pandey had said that if anyone put beds in their residence, it cannot be considered as a hospital.
Yadav has set up the centre at 1 polo road in Patna from his private funds. He said that it has all the necessary medical equipment, beds, oxygen and provision for free food.
A video went viral in which the Municipal Corporation workers can be seen carrying the body of the Covid victim on a garbage cart wearing a PPE kit. The body was taken to crematorium number 17 in Biharsharif.
The decision was taken after a meeting of the review committee and senior officials of the health department.
Speaking with the media, Pappu Yadav alleged that he has been arrested for another reason that “the Bihar government and Nitish babu [CM Nitish Kumar] are aware of”.
The ambulances had Rudy’s name and were bought using fund from the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).
Tanveer Akhtar was in-charge of the state of JDU Minority Cell. Tanveer Akhtar became MLC in 2016 from the Assembly quota and his term was till July 2022.
According to the state health department, Patna recorded 3,665 fresh cases, its biggest single-day spike, which also resulted in the worst affected district of Bihar’s active caseload to reach an alarming 21,704.
BESA General Secretary, Dr Sunil Kumar Chaudhary, said that the majority of infected persons are battling for their lives in home isolation or in hospitals.
The Bihar crisis management group has been directed to issue detailed lockdown-related guidelines and other protocols in this regard by this day.