Tag: Bihar

Patna: Conjoined twin sisters Farah and Saba were among the voters in the last phase of polling in Patna, capital of Bihar, on Sunday. The two sisters, who have been joined at the head since birth, voted separately. In the 2015 Assembly elections, their names were on a single voter identity card and they could […]

New Delhi: The richest candidate in the Lok Sabha elections Ramesh Kumar Sharma, an Independent from the Patliputra seat in Bihar who declared over Rs 1,107 crore, lost his deposit as he could manage only 1,558 votes. Of the five richest candidates – all from the Congress but for Sharma – three won the elections. […]

Motihari: A youth in Bihar’s East Champaran district was so euphoric at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s return to power that he not only distributed sweets, but also carved his name on his chest — with a sharp knife. The video of this enthusiastic supporter — identified as Sonu Patel — displaying “Modi” on his chest […]

Chandigarh: In a rare gesture, a kidney swap was successfully conducted between a Hindu family from Bihar and a Muslim family from Kashmir at a private hospital near here. The surgery was performed by doctors led by Priyadarshi Ranjan, Consultant with Fortis Hospital in Mohali, Punjab. The families of Manjula Devi from Bihar and Abdul […]

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has cleared the loans of over two thousand farmers from Bihar. “A promise made done… the farmers from Bihar that had outstanding loans, picked 2100 of them and paid off their amount with a OTS (One Time Settlement) with the Bank called some of them over to Janak and personally gave it […]

Patna: Seven more children died of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome-like symptoms in Bihar in last 24 hours, taking the toll to 43 even as new cases are being reported, officials said on Thursday. With the toll feared to go up as dozens of kids were still being treated in various hospitals, the state and Central governments […]

Bhubaneswar: It is a distressing sign! The tracing rate of missing children had fallen to mere 14 per cent in 2018 from over 23 per cent in 2017. The dip in tracing rate looks quite nagging as Odisha is yet to trace a whopping 5,648 children missing since the year 2010. According to the data […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking a cue from the Bihar government’s decision to punish wards for abandoning parents, Odisha government has directed all the district collectors for stricter enforcement of the existing rules for the safety and welfare of senior citizens. The State government has directed to ensure effective implementation of the provisions under The Maintenance and Welfare […]

Patna: Severe heatwave left at least 45 people dead and more than 100 hospitalised in the past 24 hours in Bihar, officials said on Sunday. Deaths due to the heatwave were reported from Aurangabad, Gaya and Nawada districts. Gaya and Patna recorded temperature above 45 degree Celsius on Saturday. Aurangabad civil surgeon Dr Surendra Prasad Singh […]

Patna: Hundreds of angry protesters staged a demonstration on Tuesday against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s visit to Muzaffarpur district, where 107 children have died due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). The protest took place outside the state-run Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), where Nitish Kumar arrived with Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi. […]

Bhubaneswar: When lack of proper case management saw Bihar saddled with a whopping 125 fatalities of children due to AES in the month of June so far, the alarming fact for Odisha is, it had recorded the highest Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) cases in the country during the first 4-months of 2019. According to the […]

Patna: Severe heatwave killed 12 more people in Bihar in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll over the past three days to 90, official said on Tuesday. However unofficially, the heatwave has claimed more than 250 lives in three days across a dozen districts. Deaths were reported from Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada and Jamui […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to send a team of medical professionals to review and assist in preventing the outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. AES has already claimed lives of nearly 128 children in the district. Gorakhpur in […]

Bhubaneswar: As the new Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will be presenting the first budget of Naveen 5.0 on coming Friday (June 28), the big watch out point in the upcoming full budget 2019-20 is the allocation to the education sector. A check-out out here looks all the more imperative because, Odisha had fared poorest among […]

Bhubaneswar: Litchis, which adorned the shelves of fruit sellers till yesterday, have surprisingly vanished from the markets, after the Odisha government ordered laboratory testing of the fruit following reports that its consumption is leading to spread of Encephalitis in Bihar. Yesterday, Odisha Health minister, Naba Das had asked officials to collect samples of litchi being […]