The benefits of the Centre's Integrated Child Development Services are not reaching the most impoverished children in Bihar, a latest survey report has revealed. The report of the rapid assessment survey -- conducted jointly by the Bihar Lok Adhikar Manch and Child Rights and You -- strongly emphasises the inadequacy of the ICDS service delivery system in the state, especially in the impoverished Dalit and Mahadalit societies.
Cutting across party lines, leaders in Bihar on Sunday reacted strongly over Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray's statement where he blamed 'Bihari migrants' being responsible for the recent gangrape in Delhi.
Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purayag failed to control his emotional tears when he visited Bihar's Wajidpur village, the land of his great grandfather, on Sunday.
Seven people have died in Patna district in Bihar after drinking illicit liquor on Friday, a state government official said. "All of them died at Menhdiganj locality in Patna city after they consumed illicit liquor" a district official said.
"She was mercilessly beaten to death when the accused spotted her cutting grass in his field," a police official told rediff.com.
Residents of Gaya, which has recorded the lowest temperature in Bihar at 4 degrees Celsius, are suffering under the double agony of biting cold and acute power crisis.
Two incidents of rape were reported in Bihar on Sunday where a mentally ill woman was allegedly raped by an official of a government hospital, while a minor girl was gangraped by two youths, the police said.
A Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Bihar on Thursday said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had failed to fulfill the minimum courtesy of congratulating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his win.
Soon after Narendra Modi was sworn in as the chief minister of Gujarat for the fourth time on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party's leaders from Bihar, who attended the ceremony, extended an invitation Modi to visit their state.
In the back drop of ongoing hue and cry for justice for the Delhi gangrape victim, Bihar plans to set up fast track courts to deal with rape cases to provide timely justice to the victims, an official said in Patna on Wednesday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is yet to congratulate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and refused to say anything on Modi's hat-trick victory on Friday.
Bodh Gaya's Mahabodhi temple, one of Buddhism's holiest shrines, plans to provide a peaceful environment for meditation to 4,000 visiting troops of the Royal British Army, who will start arriving in the second week of January 2013.
A government survey report has revealed that around 1,875 government-run schools in Bihar do not exist. The report says that the government's Global Positioning System, which were used toascertain the physical verification of the schools to chalk out their upgradation and modernization, have failed to locate them. M I Khan reports.
The Delhi-based Centre for Environment and Food Security has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking a thorough probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act scam in Bihar.
The All India Student Federation, backed by the Left Front, swept the Patna University students' union polls -- which were held after a gap of 28 years -- by winning three of the five major posts. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, managed to win the president's post. The Janata Dal United's student wing won the secretary's post, said an official.
Of the victims, seven persons died in Rampur police station area and one in Cherki police station area on Monday night, while four were admitted to the Anugarh Narayan Magadh Medical College, Deputy Superintendent of Police Rakesh Dubey said.
Eighteen people, including five women, have died after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar's Bhojpur district in last twenty four hours. Four of them were admitted to a government hospital in critical condition, said the police on Saturday. "The death toll from consuming spurious liquor in Bhojpur rose to 18 on Saturday with 11 more people losing lives," a district police official said.
At least seven persons, including a women, died after consuming illicit liquor in Bihar's Bhojpur district, while three other were admitted to a government hospital in critical condition, the police said on Friday.
In clear violation of rules, Satish Pandey, a notorious gangster who is currently lodged in Chapra jail, was allowed to visit his house on his way to a court by the escorting police team. M I Khan reports.
A 32-year-old woman was beaten to death in a village in Bihar's Purnia district following a panchayat order that sentenced her to death for a alleged adultery, police officials said on Tuesday.
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