Bhagalpur is situated in the plains of the Ganga River basin and is among the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies from Bihar. Rashtriya Janata Dal has fielded Shailesh Kumar, sitting MP who had defeated Shahnawaz Hussain of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Hussain had earlier won twice from the constituency – a[Read More…]
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Rail, road traffic hit in Bihar; slogans raised against PM Modi, CM Nitish Kumar
In Bihar, Opposition parties took to streets early Monday morning to stage protests in wake of the Bharat Bandh. Over a dozen long route trains were halted at Patna, Gaya, Bhojpur, Jehanabad, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur railway stations, reported news agency IANS. The shutdown is being supported by the opposition Rashtriya[Read More…]
Muzaffarpur horror: Bihar government suspends 6 child protection unit officials
Patna: The Bihar government has suspended six officials of a state child protection unit in the wake of the Opposition’s demand to take stringent actions against the rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district, authorities said on Sunday. The state’s Social Welfare Department suspended the[Read More…]
Jharkhand politician Nishikant Dubey lets his achievements do the talking
One AIIMS in Jharkhand, 18 ITI colleges, four hospitals, three agricultural colleges, three engineering colleges, four model colleges, three national highways, four water projects, houses with portable drinking water and a lot more – this isn’t a political manifesto of a party but the ground work done by one Member[Read More…]
Bihar: Indian Institute of Information Technology unit to be set up in Bhagalpur
The Bihar government has decided to allocate about 50 acres of land at Bhagalpur College of Engineering (BCE) to the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD) for building up a unit of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). The plan has been in discussion since 2010. Energy minister Bijendra[Read More…]
Bhagalpur: Villagers brutally beaten up by police: women’s clothes ripped off
The Police brutally lathi-charged on a group of villagers including women and children who were sitting on hunger strike for the past few days demanding compensation for having been displaced by the floods a few months back. But, the villagers in return, were beaten by the police so brutally that[Read More…]