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A Divorced Child Is Better Than A Dead Child

India, May 23 -- A haunting thought keeps playing on a loop in my mind. If Twisha Sharma had been just a five or a 10-year-old child, and she had told her parents, "I feel incredibly suffocated here.... Read More


new principal secy for guv, home secy in Bihar reshuffle

PATNA, May 23 -- In a routine administrative reshuffle, the state government on Friday appointed a 1992-batch IAS officer Deepak Kumar Singh, currently director general-cum-chief enquiry commissioner,... Read More


Distraught over denial of relief after son's death, woman tries to kill self, 4 grandkids

SASARAM, May 23 -- A 60-year-old Mahadalit woman -- the most backward among scheduled caste -- attempted self-immolation with her four minor grandchildren in front of the Kargahar Block Office in Roht... Read More


Umar Khalid gets three day bail as mother is due for surgery

New Delhi, May 23 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday granted interim bail from June 1 to June 3 to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid in the larger conspiracy case rela... Read More


SC on obc quota

NEW DELHI, May 23 -- The Supreme Court on Friday grappled with a question that has increasingly occupied the centre of India's reservation debate: should the benefits of affirmative action continue to... Read More


EC announces elections for 24 RS seats on June 28

NEW DELHI, May 23 -- The election Commission on Friday announced that the biennial elections to fill 24 Rajya Sabha seats that are falling vacant, will be held on June 18. Former prime minister HD Dev... Read More


100,000 teachers will be appointed in 5 yrs, transfer to be easy: Samrat

PATNA, May 23 -- Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Friday said that the state government would appoint another 100,000 teachers over the next five years -- 20,000 every year. "For this, adverti... Read More


Pensions and salaries of Bihar varsity teachers, staff stuck for 3 months

PATNA, May 23 -- Thousands of retired teachers and employees of Bihar's state universities have not been paid their pension for the third month straight as the grant is reportedly stuck between the ed... Read More


Murder case registered in student's 'suicide'

BETTIAH, May 23 -- A murder case has been registered in the death of a 21-year-old mechanical engineering student at Motihari College of Engineering in East Champaran, police said Friday. Chandan Kuma... Read More


RDA calls off strike after release of two students

PATNA, May 23 -- The Resident Doctors Association (RDA) of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) withdrew its work boycott call on Friday evening after police released two MBBS students ... Read More