A tiger which was seriously injured by poachers, died at Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve in Bihar's East Champaran district. A team of forest officials were informed by local villagers that a tiger was seriously injured in a trap laid by poachers. The tiger later died from its injuries. The tiger population is decreasing at an alarming rate in the Valmiki National Park, Bihar's only tiger project.
With these states imposing lockdowns anew, the health ministry emphasised that the restrictions should be utilised to focus on containment, surveillance and testing in the containment and buffer zones as the key strategy for early detection of cases and fatality management.
A high level delegation of officials, including Gates Foundation's senior programme officer Thomas P Kanyok and One World Health programme director Helen Matzger, met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar recently and informed him about their decision.
These events would include celebrating the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar in a big way. It was Gandhi's first mass agitation in India, where he had led a protest of peasants against forcible cultivation of indigo.
Four persons, three Central Reserve Police Force personnel including an assistant commandant and a suspected Maoist were killed in an encounter in Bihar's east Champaran district on Wednesday night.
Police sources said that two years ago a rich farmer Maheshwar Singh was killed by Maoists.
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale was felt in Patna and other parts of Bihar on Saturday evening but there was no report of damage due it.
District Superintendent of Police Bachhu Singh Meena said that the incident took place when two persons were fleeing after kidnapping Kanchan Kumar, 15-year-old son of jeweller Brigesh Kumar. However, angry villagers chased the duo and overpowered them. The villagers beat up the youths so badly that both of them died on the spot. The mob also burnt the motorcycle on which the duo was fleeing.
The boat was carrying labourers from Singhighat, about 20 km from the district headquarters, when it lost balance and\n\ncapsized.
With major rivers overflowing due to incessant rainfall, life has come to a stand-still for people in parts of Bihar and Assam.
Waterlogging was reported from several areas in Patna city following incessant rains during the past 48 hours.
The RJD MP was the national general secretary and spokesman of the party. He was said to be close to RJD chief and railway minister Lalu Prasad.
Railway sources said two people were seriously injured in the explosion that occurred at around 0630 hrs.
The Modi minister, known for his controversial statements, dropped another bombshell on Thursday.
A recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Over 500 people have perished in the current spell of floods in Bihar with fresh reports of 23 deaths from six flood-hit districts on Monday as nearly 20.5 million people continue to reel under the impact of floods in 20 districts.
The toll rises to 292; major rivers are still in spate
The polling in these constituencies was deferred for security reasons.
Reiterating his 'suit-boot ki sarkar' jibe, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a feku (a brag).
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While P Muralidhar Rao, BJP general secretary, says, 'Digital electioneering is here to stay until the elections in 2021,' the BJP's rallies in Bihar will not be confined to cyberspace. Its strategists have devised other ways of getting around the hygiene protocol that Covid-19 has entailed.
Blowing the bugle for the 2014 Parliamentary elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday hit out at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government for dilly dallying on granting special category status to the state.
They have been charged with violation of prohibitory orders.
Some Bharatiya Janata Party MPs also raised the issue in Parliament, accusing Madhya Pradesh's new chief minister of inciting hatred against people of other states.
In a bid to create terror and panic ahead of the polls, Maoists blew up a government middle school at Lakhisarai district in Bihar on early Thursday, just as the state was going to polls, the police said.
The minister was on his way to Motihari to attend PM Modi's rally. He never made it.
'I came for my national service. I am the son of people like Gandhiji, Nehru, Patel, Dr Ambedkar and Maulana Azad.'
At least 33 people have been killed in flash floods in Bihar till Tuesday evening and 25.71 lakh people are affected in 16 districts of the state.
Asserting that liquor consumption is a social stigma, Nitish said that prohibition would improve society.
In Motihari, his kin, however, were critical of the media for airing such footage.
Rajesh Singh's army, christened 'Fighter Group', has 40 members armed to the teeth.
The floods have affected 31 lakh people across 13 districts and also widely damaged crops in different parts of the state.
'Many people have this perception that Biharis are abnormal people,' says director Prakash Jha.
Rediff Labs analysed the data on MPLADS to see how the money given to each constituency was spent.
The party will launch its 'Sevagram Se Sangram' likening its fight against Modi-led government to the freedom struggle against the British.
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