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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
BIHAR CM Nitish Kumar launches schemes worth Rs 396 crore in 2 districts Chief minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated and laid stones of schemes worth Rs 168 crores at Nandan panchayat in Buxar district and another 63 schemes worth Rs 228 crore at Ahinaura village in Kamur. The CM spoke at length about his mission against alcoholism and dowry and … Read more
BIHAR Bihar needs some serious thinking on secondary education: ASER For the first time, annual status of education report (ASER) – 2017 by Pratham, to be released in New Delhi, has gone beyond the basics to focus on students in the 14-18 age group, i.e. the secondary and higher secondary stage – the Achilles’ … Read more
BIHAR 280 of Bihar’s 305 colleges provided Wi-Fi connectivity The Bihar government has provided WiFi connectivity to 280 of the 305 constituent colleges in the state. It targets to provide WiFi connectivity to the remaining colleges by March 2018 under the CM Nitish Kumar’s ‘Saat Nishchay’ initiative. The government has also decided to install solar panels at those … Read more
BIHAR Drones to keep tab on Railways project The East Central Railway (ECR) has decided to use high-tech drone cameras to keep a close surveillance on the progress of ongoing railway projects worth several crores in the zone during 2017-2018 fiscal. Drones are being used by the railways for the first time for 11 … Read more
BIHAR ADRI signs MoU with Singapore institute Patna-based social science research institute Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) and the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)-National University of Singapore (NUS) had their first joint roundtable in Singapore. The meet on ‘Political economy of development in eastern India’ also saw the signing of an MoU … Read more
BIHAR Railway projects hanging fire in state The railways’ ambitious move to execute the pending projects on a cost-sharing basis with the states is yet to bear desired results in many states, including Bihar where certain projects are hanging fire because of resource crunch. According to a Railway Board official, Jharkhand and Karnataka have positively responded to the railways’ … Read more
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
BIHAR 53 crore children to get deworming tablets on February 19 Over 5.53 crore children in the age group of 1-19 years will be administered Albendazole – a chewable tablet – in all government, government-aided and private schools to mark National Deworming Day (NDD) on February 19. The state health department has drawn up a … Read more
BIHAR Application, website soon to take the waste food to needy Roughly 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food produced in the world is discarded every year. Had only one fourth of the food wasted globally been saved, it would have been sufficient to feed 900 million people all over. Launched in Patna, ‘Don’t … Read more