July 2021

BIHAR Only 14% of school students in Bihar have access to computers’ At a time when online study has been the only option available for students owing to the Covid pandemic, only 14% of the school students in Bihar have access to computers. According to the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) report released recently, less than … Read more

BIHAR Bihar: IMA members adopt villages for awareness about immunisation   Doctors under the aegis of Indian Medical Association (IMA) state branch has come forward to boost the ongoing immunisation drive against the Covid pandemic by adopting villages, mobilise people of 18 years and above and also make them aware of Covid appropriate behaviour for saving the … Read more

BIHAR Education system in Bihar has ‘derailed’: High court   The Patna high court has come down heavily on the education system in the state, observing that the poor children have to remain content with ‘madhyan bhojan’ (midday meal), free books, uniform, bicycle but poor or no teaching in government schools.   The court was hearing a … Read more

BIHAR Bihar: Hold caste-based census, CM Nitish Kumar urges Centre again Chief minister Nitish Kumar urged the Centre to reconsider its decision of no enumeration other than that for the SCs and STs in the forthcoming decennial census. Reiterating his demand for a caste-based census in the country, Nitish said Bihar assembly had unanimously passed a resolution on February 18, 2019 … Read more

BIHAR Bihar heading for financial crisis, says CAG official     Bihar is heading towards a financial crisis as the state has shown trends of revenue deficit in the fiscal year 2019-2020, even though there was no pandemic, against the revenue surplus in fiscal 2018-19, said additional deputy (eastern region) Comptroller and Auditor General of India … Read more

BIHAR Bihar 8th among 31 states in availing digital health service   Bihar has bagged eighth rank in the country among 31 participating states in utilising ‘eSanjeevani’, a digital health service platform of the Union ministry of health and family welfare. As per the data shared by the ministry, around 2,23,197 people from Bihar have … Read more

BIHAR Bihar has over 50 lakh hepatitis patients   Bihar has more than 50 lakh patients of hepatitis that claims approximately 15 lakh lives across the world every year. Revealing this figure on the occasion of World Hepatitis Day , Dr Dineshwar Prasad, the principal of Government Ayurvedic College and Hospital (GACH), claimed that 5 out of every 100 people suffered … Read more

BIHAR CM trashes law route to curb population   Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said the state emphasized on educating girls to bring down the rate of reproduction to check population growth and refused to endorse the new population policy in Uttar Pradesh unveiled by its chief minister Yogi Adityanath.   Every state is free … Read more

BIHAR Eight power substations in rural Gaya soon   Eight new power substations are being set up in Bodh Gaya, Manpur, Khizarsarai, Banke Bazar and Wazirganj blocks of the district, South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited (SBPDCL) executive engineer (project) Balvir Prasad Bagish said. While power supply will start from two substations at Mahkar (Khizarsarai) and Bakraur (Bodh Gaya) from … Read more

BIHAR Bihar: Railways to start 14 more special passenger trains Amid a sharp decline in Covid-19 pandemic cases in Bihar, railways has decided to start services of at least 14 more special passenger trains originating from different stations falling under the jurisdiction of the East Central Railway (ECR) to cope with huge passenger rush during the peak summer. … Read more