A retired commissioner of Irrigation Department and his wife has been found dead in their house in the Bihar capital. Four people have been detained, police said on Friday. Harender Prasad Singh, 88, and his second wife Sapna Das Gupta, 70, were found murdered late on Thursday in Dujra’s Buddha colony here. Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said an investigation is on. Those detained[Read More…]
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Muzaffarpur Shelter Home Case: The attack on freedom of the press and right to know
Nivedita Jha has filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the blanket ban on reporting of Muzaffarpur shelter home case. Speaking with Newsd she says that “the Patna high court in CWJC No. 12845/2018 vides its order dated 23-08-18 has imposed a blanket media ban on[Read More…]
Patna: Man bluffs US girl in the name of love for Rs 56 lakh
Patna police arrested a thug identified as Jyoti Ranjan, who bluffed a US engineer girl for lakhs of money. The accused cheated the girl Parul Verma, by trapping her into fake love story where the accused allegedly portrayed himself as the owner of a big company. The accused even tried[Read More…]
Government may soon offer subsidy of up to Rs 1.4 lakh on Electric Vehicles
In a bid to boost the sales of electric vehicles in the country, the central government has announced that it will offer a subsidy of upto Rs 1.4 lakh on the purchase of EVs, including cars, motorcycles and even three-wheelers. The decision was taken at a meeting held on 23[Read More…]
Patna High Court’s order gagging media is systematically draconian
In a recent hearing, the Patna high court in the context of Muzaffarpur shelter abuse case restrained print and electronic media from reporting anything on the case. The order said, “We have also noticed that in the media, both print media as well as electronic media, the reporting is made with respect[Read More…]
Bihar: Boy shot dead in Patna
Patna: Unidentified criminals shot dead a boy at Sultanpur village under Danapur police station in the state capital Patna. Police said here that 17 year old Mohammad Farooque, son of Salahuddin was shot dead when he and his elder brother Haider Ansari were sleeping together in their house. At the moment,[Read More…]
Bihar: BJP leader arrested for sexual assault in Patna
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Patna has been arrested for alleged sexual exploitation of the secretary of an NGO run by him, police said on Wednesday. Baban Yadav was arrested late on Tuesday following an FIR lodged by the secretary of Buddha Society Seva Foundation, an NGO which[Read More…]
Bihar: Planning department under secretary shot dead in Patna
Raising a serious concern over the law and order situation in Bihar Under Secretary of Planning department Rajiv Kumar shot in the state capital on Tuesday morning. He was shot by criminals at his residence. After being gunned down, he was rushed to a hospital in Patna where he was[Read More…]
After Muzaffarpur horror, 2 Bihar shelter home women dead in Patna
Patna: Police in Bihar said on Sunday that two women from a shelter home died at a hospital here. A 40-year-old woman and an 18-year-old girl from the Asra shelter home here died on Friday night in the Patna Medical College and Hospital. Neither the police nor the Social Welfare Department were informed of the incident. A police[Read More…]
Bihar: JDU MLA Bima Bharti’s son found dead on rail tracks
JDU legislator, Bima Bharti’s teenages son, Deepak, was found dead on a railway track in Patna Friday morning. Though the minister’s family suspects murder, the police said they would wait for post-mortem report to go ahead with next course of their investigation. Friends of Deepak, with whom he used to[Read More…]
Well hatched conspiracy by few people against Super30’s Anand Kumar: Tejashwi Yadav
Bihar leader of the opposition and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav came in support of Super30’s Anand Kumar today. He tweeted in his support and said that there is a well-hatched conspiracy by few by few highly self-centric, narrow-minded, incompetent and failed competitors who are trying to sabotage hard earned reputation[Read More…]
‘Philanthropy cannot be mixed with profession’: Super30 co-founder Abhayanand
Super30, a free tutorial to coach 30 bright aspirants of IIT entrance test who come from underprivileged families of Bihar is said to be an exceptional idea. The international exposure this concept got was phenomenal. It made IPS officer and educationalist Abhayanand and Ramanujam School of Mathematics teacher Anand Kumar[Read More…]
Life line of Patna, Bailey road caves in after heavy rains
Patna: A large of part of a road in Patna caved in on Sunday following heavy rains that pounded the state capital round the clock, officials said. The Bailey road, considered the life line of Patna, caved in due to heavy rains continuing since Saturday. Several areas are water-logged, a[Read More…]
Nitish proposes new, impossible seat sharing formula to BJP
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar seems to have proposed an impossible formula for BJP-JDU alliance in Bihar. According to sources, the formula was proposed to the BJP President Amit Shah during his visit to Patna last week. As per the seat sharing formula being proposed by the Bihar Chief Minister, BJP[Read More…]
The fallout of marginalized by anti-liquor law of Nitish Kumar
Bihar often remains in the headlines due to the daily incidents and the political endgames it frequently witnesses. In a similar manner, the issue of the prohibition of liquor in the state has again become a topic for hot discussions and debate among the political circles, the civil society and[Read More…]
Minor gang raped in Patna, two arrested
Patna: A minor girl was gang-raped here on Sunday and the police have arrested two accused persons, authorities said. The incident took place at 12.30 a.m. near a railway line adjacent to the GPO Golumber area, in the heart of Bihar’s capital city. Police Officer Rama Shankar Singh said the two[Read More…]
Property dealer’s abducted son found murdered in Patna
Patna: The 16-year-old son of a property dealer who was kidnapped for ransom on Thursday was found murdered here on Friday, police said. The body of Raunak Kumar, a Class 9 student and son of Sudhir Kumar, was found in a shuttered shop in Kadamkuan locality. His hands were tied with[Read More…]
Bihar: Train catches fire, four coaches gutted
Four coaches of a passenger train were gutted in a fire in Bihar’s Mokama railway yard on Wednesday, an official said. No one was injured in the incident. The coaches were of a MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit) passenger train that caught fire around midnight. At the time of the[Read More…]
Patna Pirates thump Gujarat Fortunegiants to clinch PKL 5 title
Chennai: Patna Pirates thumped Gujarat Fortunegiants 55-38 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here on Saturday to clinch the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 5 title. Patna have won the PKL title for third consecutive season now. Raider Pardeep Narwal (19 points) starred for Patna to single-handedly dominate the match and[Read More…]
UP: Tail of lizard found in meal led 90 students to fall sick in Mirzapur school
Around 90 students fell sick in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district after consuming the contaminated meal. Initially, they complained of abdominal pain and vomiting after eating following which they were admitted to the Vindhyachal health center. Around 45 students’ condition turned serious and they were referred to another hospital. “Some students[Read More…]
Bihar: Former BJP MP Satya Pal Malik takes oath as Governor
Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday took oath as the Governor of Bihar in Patna. A former MP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s national vice president, Malik took the charge of the post that had been vacant since Ram Nath Kovind was nominated as the BJP’s presidential candidate. Malik has already[Read More…]
Patna High Court upholds Shahabuddin’s life sentence in 2004 murder case
In a significant verdict, the Patna High Court on Wednesday upheld the life sentence given to former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP, Mohammad Shahabuddin in a 2004 murder case. Shahabuddin had been held guilty of killing two brothers, whose bodies were never found in 2015. The men’s mother, Kalawati Devi, had[Read More…]
Bihar: RJD councillor shot dead in Patna
In Patna, a councillor affiliated to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was shot dead by three men on a motorcycle near Saguna Mor at Danapur on Thursday. Kedar Rai, a representative of ward number 15, was shot dead when he was out on a morning walk. He was soon taken[Read More…]
Hospital in Bihar asks employees to declare virginity in declaration form
In a funny incident, a government hospital in Bihar is asking its employees some really weird questions in their declaration forms. In the marital declaration form of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (IGIMS), Patna, employees are being asked to declare their virginity and also the number of wives[Read More…]
Tejashwi Yadav’s name striked off for official event in Patna
Amidst the ongoing rift in the mega alliance of RJD-JD(U) in Bihar, chief minister, Nitish Kumar, has made it almost clear that he does not want his deputy, Tejashwi Yadav, to continue in office without clearing his name in the corruption case or clarifying the matter publicly. Tejashwi’s name was[Read More…]