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Rise in call for changing name of Bakhtiarpur

PATNA, June 26 -- Bakhtiarpur, a municipality notified area and a town in Patna district, is again in news after the move to change its name has surfaced. Though it has been an old demand and often tu... Read More


Cabinet nod to 4-lane Digha-Koilwar corridor

PATNA, June 26 -- The state cabinet has given its nod to the road construction department (RCD) to adopt the hybrid annuity model (HAM) to execute the four-lane Digha-Koilwar corridor - the western ex... Read More


Wanted criminal shot at in police encounter in Patna

PATNA, June 26 -- A wanted criminal, Mohammad Raza, was injured during a police encounter at Ganga Path of the state capital while his accomplice was arrested on Wednesday noon. The incident led to ch... Read More


Nitish's welfare blitzkrieg aims at bolstering image, silencing Oppn

PATNA, June 26 -- In poll-bound Bihar, the NDA government at the Centre and state are on a project inauguration spree. This serves the twin purpose of justifying its development oriented image and als... Read More


Bihar to set up cooperative societies to boost makhana farming: Minister

PATNA, June 26 -- The state cooperative department is mulling the creation of cooperative societies in Seemanchal (north-eastern Bihar) to support and promote the cultivation, processing, and marketin... Read More


15-yr-old girl accuses four friends of rape, all held: police

PATNA, June 26 -- A 15-year-old minor girl on Tuesday alleged that she was sexually assaulted by an Instagram friend along with his three other friends at a hotel under the jurisdiction of Kotwali pol... Read More


HLA screening camp for thalassemia patients at SKMCH, PMCH on July 4-5

PATNA, June 26 -- Screening camps for matching human leukocyte antigen (HLA) among siblings of patients with thalassemia, a blood disorder, will be held at the Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SK... Read More


Two students killed in road mishap in Gaya Ji

GAYA JI, June 26 -- Two students were killed when a speeding pick-up van crushed their bicycle at Chandauti turning near Belaganj bypass on Dobhi-Patna national highway under Belaganj police station l... Read More


Emergency darkest period for Indian democracy: V-P

Dehradun, June 26 -- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday termed the Emergency of 1975 as the "darkest period" in Indian democracy and called on today's youth to understand its implications so... Read More


Farmer injured by crocodile in Bihar's West Champaran

BETTIAH, June 26 -- Close on the heels of the death of a seven-year-old boy in a man-animal conflict, a 36-year-old farmer was critically injured in a crocodile attack at a village near Valmiki Tiger ... Read More