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Bihar Union Cabinet clears stalled North Koel Reservoir Project in Bihar. The Union Cabinet approved a proposal to complete the balance works of North Koel Reservoir Projectin Bihar, stalled since 1993. Under the revived project, storage of water in Mandal dam to be constructed under it will be will be restricted at a lower … Read more
Bihar Aadhaar mandatory for prisoners in Patna jails. All prisoners, whether under trial or convicted and lodged in Patna jails would now have to present their Aadhaar number to the jail administrations mandatorily. Those inmates who do not have Aadhaar numbers for any reason , would get it within ten days, that … Read more
Bihar Patna Collegiate School turns 182 Patna Collegiate School Alumni Association organized a function to mark the 182nd foundation day of the school on Thursday. The event was jointly inaugurated by former Union minister Yashwant Sinha and MP Shatrughan Sinha. Bhojpuri actor Kunal Singh, Ruban Emergency Hospital chairman A K Singh, general physician Utpal … Read more
Bihar CM Nitish asks Centre to fix one rate of electricity across the country. Lamenting that Bihar is getting electricity from the central pool at a higher rate compared to other states, CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday asked the Centre to fix equal rate of electricity across the country. Addressing an energy department’s function where he laid … Read more
Bihar Government’s approval mandatory for new borewell The state government is planning to introduce fresh guidelines prescribing people in urban areas to take consent for digging new borewells for extracting water in order to avoid undue pressure on groundwater table. The state government has decided to hand over its own pumping stations to Jeevika, … Read more
Bihar SC refuses more time to liquor companies to remove stock from Bihar. In a big blow to liquor manufacturers, the Supreme Court rejected their plea for more time to transport stocks out of Bihar, the deadline for which ended on July 31 after a new law on prohibition was enacted by the Nitish Kumar … Read more
Bihar 65% children not breastfed within one hour of birth in Bihar. The gender resource centre of Women Development Corporation, in association with Unicef, organized an outreach and experience-sharing workshop on ‘Sustaining BreastfeedingTogether’ to commemorate the World Breastfeeding Week. As per National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16), 48 infants per 1,000 births in Bihar die … Read more
Bihar Bihar records 10.2% GDP growth rate in 2016-17 The 6.57% growth rate registered in the agriculture and allied sectors has jacked up the overall gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of the state to 10.2%, calculated on the basis of 2011-12 constant prices, during 2016-17 fiscal. The state GDP growth rate during … Read more
Bihar State govt to digitise pre-1995 registration documents. The state government has decided to digitise all registration documents from the pre1995 period, as part of its bigger plan to interlink the land records with property registration system so that there could be more transparency in sale and purchase of land and flats in … Read more
Bihar Bihar has maximum ‘stressed’ bridges on National Highways. Bihar has the maximum number of “distressed structures” including bridges and elevated stretches out of the total 147 identified on National Highways by the road transport ministry. According to official data, 112 of these are minor bridges, 11 are elevated stretches and the rest are major bridges. … Read more