The company plans to begin drilling in Bihar's Gangetic basin by next year. It has completed the seismic surveys and is currently studying the data collected to understand the geological structures below the surface.
Bihar Legislative Assembly member Nagina Devi's name has been removed from the voters' list of her constituency after she failed to provide documents proving that she is an Indian citizen.
The state government will seek technological help from the United States to plug the breaches in embankments and roads caused by floods.
The central team will submit its report to the centre after completion of their survey.
This year, authorities have decided to allocate hostel seats to students on the basis of their merit list and choice of subjects, not on their caste.
This is not the first time Shahabuddin, who faces charges in over 30 criminal cases of murder, abduction and possession of illegal arms and stolen vehicles, has been sentenced by court.
The kidnapping has come at a time when Patna police is yet to make any breakthrough to trace Akash Pandey, 14, a student of DAV school who was kidnapped on August 10.
The quantum of sentence will be announced on Friday.
Faced with floods that affected over 20 million people, the Bihar government has sanctioned a whopping sum of Rs 1,000 crore to compensate the losses suffered by flood victims in the state.
Television channels aired footage of critically-injured Saleem being tied to a motorcycle and dragged along the road by a policeman.
The village head's husband and his henchmen poured acid into the man's eyes.
A group of flood victims were protesting against the lack of relief materials and irregularities before the local administration.
No mid-day meal has been cooked in the school for the last two months, after the Brahmins announced a ban on serving food cooked by a Dailt woman.
But all these voter identity cards are fakes.
A World Bank team and experts from the US will visit the floods-affected areas on Saturday to discuss financial assistance and other help to rebuild the infrastructure.
Officials sources said that state government was assessing the damages caused by the floods and would submit a detailed memorandum for the additional central assistance next week.
Hundreds of families line the embankment, subsisting on the little stock of food in their possession and when that dries up, doing without.
Nitish also requested Dr Singh to tour flood affected areas of Bihar to personally assess the damages of property and miseries to millions.
In a similar incident, a 15-year-old girl, Gudia, of the same village was rescued by the villagers when she fell down from the roof to catch a food packet.
The flood victims reportedly resisted a police bid to dig up land beneath a railway track to drain out flood water from Madhubani town and they reportedly threw stones at the police.
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