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BIHAR Bihar wins Kalam award for grievance redressal The state has won Kalam Innovation in Governance Award (KIGA) for exemplary implementation and monitoring of the Bihar Right to Public Grievance Redressal Act (BRPGRA). The Act, first of its kind in the country, was introduced in 2015 to give legal right to citizens for time-bound hearing and redressal of their grievances. … Read more 24.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR Bihar industry ready for spl status tradeoff with IDF With the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) taking the steam out of longstanding special category status demand, trade and industry bodies are now pitching for announcement of an industrial development fund (IDF) in the Union budget 2018 to help industrially backward states, … Read more 23.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
BIHAR 27 out of 57 jails in state overcrowded Altogether 27 out of the 57 jails in the state are overcrowded and most of the prisoners are forced to live in unhygienic and inhuman conditions. There are more than 25,000 prisoners in these 27 jails against their sanctioned capacity to accommodate around 16,880 inmates only. Other jails have … Read more 03.01.18 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 02.01.18 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
Archeological sites of bihar Barabar Caves The Barabar Caves are perhaps the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, mostly dating from the Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE), some with Ashokan inscriptions, located in the Makhdumpur region of Jehanabad district, Bihar, India, 24 km (15 mi) north of Gaya. These caves are situated in the twin hills … Read more Archeological sites of bihar
Gopalganj Gopalganj is a town, municipality and headquarters of Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar. Modern District of Gopalganj was established on October 2, 1973. Gopalganj district covers 2,033 square kilometres (785 sq mi) in area and ranks as the 26th largest district in the state of Bihar. The district is mostly plains and fertile land. In the district’s western part, the Gandak river flows southwards. It … Read more District and Divisions of Bihar part 3
BIHAR Interstate tourism centre to be set up in Bhagalpur In a bid to boost tourists inflow in the state, especially in places of historical, cultural and religious importance, an Interstate Tourism Centre (ITC) is likely to come up at Bhagalpur soon. The tourism centre would be established in collaboration with neighbouring state Jharkhand … Read more 13.12.17 Bihar (BPSC) Daily Current Affairs
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 08-12-2017 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 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