Covid deaths at home, on the way to hospital or in private centres are not being counted in Bihar's official list of dead.
'They are not ready to take the vaccine.' 'They fear that if they do, they will die.'
The government's focus is on urban areas, so rural areas are neglected and the COVID situation in Bihar's villages -- neither the positive cases nor the deaths -- are reported, notes M I Khan.
116 doctors treating COVID patients in Bihar have succumbed to the disease. The family of only one doctor has received compensation.
'It refuses to leave the place where his owner was cremated.'
Why MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy and his party, the BJP, are angry with Pappu Yadav.
As the number of COVID cases rise in Bihar, data indicates that the state is slowing down on testing. It is also relying more on the Rapid Antigen Test than the more accurate RT-PCR test.
With more than 21 lakh migrant workers returning to the state as per official data, the Nitish Kumar government faces an enormous challenge in providing jobs for them.
This is the first protest in Bihar against the state government order directing schools, colleges and coaching institutes to remain closed till April 11 following a rise in COVID-19 cases.
Five years after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar imposed total prohibition in Bihar, the liquor mafia continues to thrive, reports MI Khan.
After recovering from COVID-19, Dr Ramswarup Choudhary was struggling with memory loss, sleeplessness and mental fatigue.
If you can't control law and order, then resign, VHP tells NDA government in Bihar.
In yet another sign that not everything is fine between Bihar's ruling partners, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar opposes the BJP's demand for a population control law -- even while seeking a caste-based census, a red flag for the BJP. M I Khan reports.
Soaring fuel prices give birth to a jugaad system in Bihar's border towns abutting Nepal with residents smuggling in India-supplied cheaper petrol and diesel from the mountain kingdom.
'Thanks to monetary help from several people, we are comfortable and living with dignity.'
'He will continue to fight against the BJP, Modi and RSS.'
'Events like the one we saw on Sunday are complex geological processes which can be impacted by weather and climatic conditions.' 'It is difficult to attribute something like this to just one factor or to a particular time period, especially when we have still not understood the exact cause.'
Was road rage behind the murder that shocked Bihar?
'Unlike past governments, we never protect or save criminals.'
According to state government data, the first 10 months of last year -- January to October 2020 -- witnessed 2,649 murders in Bihar, an average of nearly nine murders a day.
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