Oct 2020

BIHAR Bihar government spent more than Rs 1,000 crore to help people affected by lockdown, Nitish Kumar says at PM Modi’s rally Bihar CM Nitish Kumar  said that his government spent more than Rs 1,000 crore to provide financial assistance to the state’s people affected by the lockdown and covid-19 infection.   Nitish said a financial assistance of … Read more

BIHAR   Bihar education department to reduce school syllabus The state education department has decided to reduce the syllabus from Class I to XII, for the academic year 2020-21, in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) which frames the syllabus for government schools are revising it. The … Read more

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   Suicide cases rise by 44% in Bihar, highest in country   With 44.7% increase in number of suicides in 2019 when compared to the figures of 2018, Bihar witnessed the highest upsurge in suicide cases in the country, according to the recent data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Punjab was second highest with 37.5% increase … 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 34 per cent candidates in 2nd phase Bihar polls face criminal cases: ADR report   About 34 per cent of 1,463 candidates in the second phase of the Bihar Assembly election have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to a report by poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). About 27 per cent or 389 … Read more