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Bihar AG PK Shahi resigns, successor may be named today

PATNA, June 15 -- Bihar's Advocate General PK Shahi tendered his resignation from the post on Sunday. It will be effective from Monday and the notification for his replacement is likely to be issued t... Read More


Govt releases Rs.998-cr for 13 univ salaries, pensions

PATNA, June 13 -- The finance department on Friday finally released grant-in-aid of Rs.998.84 crore for payment of salary, pension and retirement benefits to teachers and employees of 13 state univers... Read More


Govt teachers barred from private coaching

PATNA, June 13 -- Close on the heels of banning private practice by government doctors to improve health services in government hospitals, the education department has now banned private tuition and c... Read More


NITI meet: samrat asks centre to release Rs.18K-cr

PATNA, June 12 -- Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary on Thursday urged the Centre to release Rs.18,000-crore for the state's "tap water to every household" programme, in which the state government ... Read More


Samrat seeks funds, string of institutes from Centre

PATNA, June 12 -- Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary on Thursday urged the Centre to release Rs.18,000-crore for the state's 'tap water to every household' programme, in which the state government ... Read More


Coaching chaos in Bihar stems from 'feeble' 2010 Act application

PATNA, June 12 -- The saga of firing and subsequent legal battle between two popular educators of Patna - Faisal Khan aka Khan Sir and Roushan Anand - has brought to fore the sordid side of commercial... Read More


Coaching centres run on 'ranker & banker' formula, says Prof Verma

patna, June 12 -- Iconic educator and famed academician Prof HC Verma has been an ardent critic of the coaching industry. It is because, he believes, the coaching culture has harmed the students in mu... Read More


'Salaries, pensions of teachers, staff stuck for months'

PATNA, June 10 -- Thousands of college teachers and former employees have claimed their salaries and pensions of remain pending for the past four months even as the state government plans to start 211... Read More


Denied ticket in MLC polls, RJD's Dalit face resigns

PATNA, June 9 -- Three-term RJD MLA, former minister and a close aide of Lalu Prasad, Shiv Chandra Ram on Monday resigned from the party after being denied ticket in the MLC election. RJD fielded form... Read More


4 varsities roll back PhD admission process after governor's directive

PATNA, June 8 -- Following the directive from the Chancellor's secretariat, several state universities have responded promptly to cancel their notifications for Ph.D. Admission Tests (PAT) for the aca... Read More