Oct 2020

BIHAR Bihar tops heartland states in tapwater reach As poll-bound Bihar sets a target to cover its all 1.9 crore rural households with tap connections for drinking water supply by next year, it’ll become the first among what used to be called the BIMARU states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) to achieve the target of ‘Har … Read more

BIHAR ADRI: Bihar’s economy likely to shrink by 15-18% in 2020-21 Bihar’s economy is likely to shrink by 15 to 18% in the financial year 2020-21 due to Covid-19, according to a report released by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) at Patna. The report, christened ‘COVID-19: Issues and Challenges for Bihar’, is based on comprehensive deliberations and research by … Read more

BIHAR Centre earmarks 30,000 central security forces personnel for Bihar polls   The Centre has directed deployment of about 30,000 central security force personnel for the conduct of the three-phase assembly polls in Bihar.   The Union home ministry has directed that 300 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and the Railway Protection Force will … Read more

BIHAR PM Modi to unveil tech interventions for dairy sector in poll-bound Bihar Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pitch for three new technological interventions to give a boost to the dairy sector– setting up of ‘semen stations’, use of sex-sorted semen for producing only female calves and introducing IVF lab at farmers’ doorsteps for multiplication of high … Read more

BIHAR PM Narendra Modi inaugurates 3 petroleum sector projects Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated three projects related to the petroleum sector in Bihar, through video conferencing. The three projects include the Durgapur-Banka section of the Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur Pipeline Augmentation Project and two Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Bottling Plants. They have been commissioned by IndianOil and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation … Read more

BIHAR Centre’s push for growth in Bihar   Some major projects for state launched by PM Narendra Modi, including four related to water supply, two to sewerage treatment and one to riverfront development scheme, is expected to improve delivery and quality of urban infrastructure services in the state. The projects worth Rs 541 crore have been launched … Read more