11.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

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

10.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

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

09.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

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

08.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

Bihar   Centre launches legal aid scheme in Bihar.   Remuneration of paralegal volunteers (PLVs) working with different state legal services authorities and district legal services authorities across the country has been doubled. Paralegal refers to a person trained in subsidiary legal matters but not fully qualified as a lawyer.   The PLVs across the country would … Read more

07.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

Bihar   Be generous in allocating funds, Nitish Kumar tells Centre   Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said a sum of Rs 50 crore is not enough for strengthening subordinate judiciary in a state like Bihar and asked Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to show more generosity in allocating funds since he also belongs to the … Read more

06.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

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

05.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

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

04.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

Bihar   Now, December 2019 deadline for Ganga driveway.   The state government’s ambitious Loknayak Ganga Path, popularly known as Ganga driveway, is unlikely to meet 2017 deadline due to delay in land acquisition and other issues. Senior Bihar State Road Development Corporation Limited (BSRDCL) officials said the project would be completed by December 2019 as the … Read more

02.08.17 & 03.08.17 Bihar (BPSC) Current Affairs

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

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