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Bihar to set up colleges in all uncovered blocks

PATNA, Jan. 8 -- The newly created higher education department plans to set up degree colleges in all those blocks of the state, which have got none, and upgrade old institutions into centres of excel... Read More


'Erring officials being taken to task; land related plaints have come down sharply'

PATNA, Jan. 8 -- Deputy chief minister-cum-revenue minister Vijay Kumar Sinha on Wednesday said the revenue and land reforms department had started pulling up erring officials having lackadaisical att... Read More


13.07 acres opium crop Destroyed in Gaya Ji distt

GAYA, Jan. 8 -- In a joint operation against illegal cultivation and smuggling of opium, CRPF), STF, excise and forest officials destroyed 13.07 acres of opium crop in Gaya Ji district, officials said... Read More


Confusion prevails over 'ban on customers with veil' at jewellery shops

PATNA, Jan. 8 -- Amid reports that a section of jewellery shops had decided not to sell gold ornaments to women wearing a veil, the main bullion traders' association on Wednesday issued a clarificatio... Read More


Aurangabad: Firearms, explosives recovered

PATNA, Jan. 8 -- The Special Task Force (STF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), in a joint operation, recovered firearms and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from Aurangabad district on ... Read More


6 of bike-lifters' gang held

PURNEA, Jan. 8 -- An inter-district bike-lifting gang was busted with the arrest of six members on Wednesday in Purnea, police said. Purnea SP Sweety Sahrawat said a sudden surge in bike-lifting incid... Read More


Border villagers are nation's eyes, ears: CM

Dehradun, Jan. 8 -- Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami On Wednesday said that people living in border villages play a key role in national security, and emphasised that better coordination among the a... Read More


Petition filed in Patna HC over 'anomalies' in Agiaon reserved seat election

ARA, Jan. 7 -- CPI(ML) candidate Shivprakash Ranjan has filed a petition in the Patna high court, alleging serious irregularities in the 195-Agiaon (SC) assembly constituency election that Ranjan had ... Read More


BSSC chairman resignsafter 6 days of joining

PATNA, Jan. 7 -- Barely six days after assuming the charge of chairman of the Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC), a 1989-batch former IPS officer Alok Raj on Tuesday resigned from the post after ... Read More


1.40 lakh water bodies renovated in Bihar: Min

PATNA, Jan. 7 -- Rural development minister Shravan Kumar on Tuesday said that the Bihar government renovated over 1.40 lakh water bodies and created over 73,000 new water conservation structures acro... Read More