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BIHAR 95,000 tuberculosis cases reported in Bihar last year Additional executive director of State Health Society Sanjay Kumar Singh on expressed concern over lack of tuberculosis test facility at integrated counselling and test centres (ICTCs) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres where HIV patients co-infected with multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB visit. In 2016, nearly 65,000 TB cases … Read more 09-12-2017 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR Bihar discoms file power tariff petition for next fiscal The North Bihar Power Distribution Company and the South Bihar Power Distribution Company on Tuesday evening filed their electricity tariff petition for the next fiscal (2018-19) with the Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC). The BERC will take at least three months to take a call on the … Read more 07-12-2017 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR Youths from Bihar to be taught job skills by Yamaha The state labour resources department and India Yamaha Motor signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which the automotive giant will provide two-year training in mechanical and automotive sector to ITI and higher secondary-pass students. The training, meant for students in the age group of … Read more 03/04-12-2017 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR 7k of 30k murders in UP-Bihar in 2016 The popular perception that crime graph has gone down after prohibition in Bihar last year notwithstanding, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports that the state saw the second highest number of cases of heinous crime, including murder, after UP in 2016. According to the NCRB data … Read more 02-12-2017 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR Declare Cyclopean Wall as heritage site: CM Nitish Kumar Chief minister Nitish Kumar pitched for a world heritage status to 22km-long Cyclopean Wall while inaugurating the three-day Rajgir Mahotsav at Rajgir International Convention Centre (RICC). The Cyclopean Wall at Rajgir is among the oldest specimens of this type of masonry across the world. Our government’s … Read more 28.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR Young schoolgoers target of state anti-tobacco drive Mobile medical teams engaged in conducting routine health check-up of children in government schools and Aanganwadi centres in Bihar under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) will now also create awareness on hazards of consuming tobacco products. The State Health Society (SHS) said all … Read more 23.11.17 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 17.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR Bihar jails to be linked with ERP system Buoyed by the success of Prison-enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system in Patna based Beur jail in 2012-13, Bihar’s rest 55 jails would now be extended this facility. The system could be adopted after its formal inauguration by CM Nitish Kumar at state’s first … Read more 15.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR • Soon, Bihar to recruit over 1,000 SIS after a 13-year gap Bihar will soon advertise over 1,000 posts of sub-inspectors (SI) to be filled through direct recruitment. Decks were cleared for the same following an amendment to the Bihar Police Manual, 1978 on August 30. The government has already identified the … Read more 14.11.17 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 12-13.11.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs