2.7 Million Bihar Flood Victims Struggle for Survival

'Government officials have not provided us anything.' IMAGE: Villagers hit by the floods shift to safer places as the water of the Ganga rises. Photograph: PTI Photo An angry monsoon and swollen......

Dynasts' report card: Defeat for Sharad's, Shatrughan's wards

They entered the Bihar poll battle to protect and carry forward their fathers' political legacy, but many of them could not win their own seat though some tasted victory. IMAGE: Luv Sinha, son of......

COVID caution goes for toss in Bihar election heat

With the campaign for the Bihar assembly election reaching a fever pitch, the Election Commission's warning of stern action for violation of COVID-19 protocol has gone unheeded with people......

Bihar poll fever to rise as Modi, Rahul to campaign on Friday

The political temperature in Bihar is set to go up substantially as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi take a direct plunge in electioneering Friday, addressing a series......

NTPC to float tender for 11 supercritical units

The country's largest power producer, NTPC, will soon float a tender to procure equipment for eleven 660 MW supercritical thermal power units as part of its 100 day programme. "The company would......

NTPC to become 30,000 MW company by year-end

National Thermal Power Corporation is all set to become a 30,000 MW company this year after the commissioning of its 500 MW plant at Kahalgaon in Bihar in November. "We are hoping that the......

Only 5 hrs, from anywhere in Bihar to Patna

Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister, Bihar, says that the road building programme in Bihar has taken off on a big scale. He says that the state will spend about Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) on building......

Coal paucity to worsen power crisis

The power situation is likely to worsen in the country with as many as 16 major power plants facing critical supply of coal, barely adequate to meet their requirements of less than a week, an......