Bihar Floods 2017: A human curse!

'Did the government learn any lesson from the disasters of 2008, 1987, 1975?''Certainly not!''They are making people believe that the 2017 flood was unexpected, so no preventive effort towards......

Floods devastate Bihar; 56 dead so far

About 1.82 lakh people have been evacuated to safe places by rescue teams in last 48 hours. M I Khan reports from Patna. IMAGE: A view of a flooded village in West Champaran district of Bihar. All......

'It does not matter to Chhath devotees that we are Muslims'

These Muslim women are poor and illiterate, but with the devotion they display as they create handmade earthen stoves for Chhath, they strengthen the social fabric, reports M I Khan. For Kauser,......

Fresh floods in several Bihar districts; toll rises to 172

With four more deaths, the toll in Bihar floods on Thursday rose to 172, even as water level at many points in the swollen Ganga river receded. Two more deaths were reported in Begusarai and one......

SC directs Centre to implement interlinking of rivers project

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to implement the ambitious interlinking of rivers project in a time-bound manner and appointed a high-powered committee for its planning and......

Special: Dark patches mar Bihar's growth story

There has been a wave of development works in Bihar changing the face of a poor and backward region and fast-tracking it to growth. Noticeably there have been a slew of policy measures that have......

Are our IIMs overly US-centric?

Twenty-six of us were seated around a long U-shaped table. It was late in the afternoon. The room was semi-dark. Each of us had a plate of sweets and a bottle of mineral water in front. A third of......