21.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR                                                 Opt for e-rickshaw, carpool to reduce pollution: BSPCB   Alarming rise in pollution level and worsening air quality index of the state capital, Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) has appealed to the people to take initiative for making the atmosphere cleaner and healthier.   In a press release, the BSPCB appealed to … Read more

04.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   Bihar Government to apply reservation formula in engaging outsourced employees   The Bihar government decided to follow its reservation policy while engaging professionals and other employees through outsourcing agencies. The new policy will make private outsourcing agencies recruit manpower based on the reservation policy of the state government if they want to work with the … Read more

02.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   Licence mandatory for selling tobacco products    The advisory issued by Patna municipal corporation on November 3, ordering tobacco sellers not to sell any other nontobacco products like bread, candies, water bottles etc under one roof and to obtain license for selling tobacco products before December 1, is yet to be implemented in … Read more

17.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   No need to hide mobiles, now jail inmates can officially make calls   Making phone calls secretly from prisons is a big menace the jail authorities have to grapple with. Quite frequently, mobile phones are recovered during raids in prisons.   Now, making phone calls will be legal for more than 30,000 inmates … Read more

12-13.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   60% students enrolled in Patna University courses are girls: VC   Patna University (PU) vice-chancellor Rash Bihari Prasad Singh has expressed satisfaction over high enrolment of girls in different courses. “It is a matter of pride that more than 60% of the students enrolled in different courses in PU are girls,” he said.   Adding that PU is not only empowering … Read more

17-18.12.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   CJI to government: Encourage arbitration in civil cases   Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said the state government should come forward to settle civil disputes pending before the Patna high court through arbitration.   The CJI was in Patna to inaugurate an arbitration centre on the Patna high court premises for proper and quick disposal of … Read more

Feudatory States in Bihar

Feudatory States in Bihar The Eastern States Agency was a grouping of princely states in eastern India, during the latter years of Britain′s Indian Empire. It was created in 1933, by the unification of the former Chhattisgarh States Agency and the Orissa States Agency; the agencies remained intact within the grouping. In 1936, the Bengal … Read more

16.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR   Patna air pollution worse than that of Delhi   Air pollution in Patna on Wednesday deteriorated further to ‘very severe’ category as the air quality index (AQI) released by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) was recorded at 404, worse than Delhi’s 308. This is the first time this year that the AQI level crossed the 400 mark. Patna … Read more

06.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs

BIHAR Gul Hasan wins first gold medal for state in 25 years   It was a golden moment for the Mounted Military Police (MMP) of Bihar after 25 years when its sub-inspector Mohammad Gul Hasad won gold medal at the 36th All India Police Equestrian Championship and Mounted Police Duty Meet, 2017.   The SVPNPA team won 20 gold, five silver … Read more