Patna News

To meet its deficit, Bihar was still bidding at a high rate and spending an additional ₹20 crore per day to purchase power through private sources. This was in addition to its average monthly bill of ₹800 crore to the NTPC for supply of thermal power from central sector. Yet, it was unable to get the required quantity of power.

The preventive wing of Patna Customs nabbed the suspect and brought him to Customs headquarters office for interrogation

Sale, purchase and consumption of liquor is banned in the state under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016.

In a tweet on Sunday, Tej Pratap said he had never spoken or written about claims being made by independent candidate Sanjay Kumar Yadav a few days back that he would campaign for him

Having inoculated 1,36,560 doses on August 7, Patna became the fifth district in India to cross the 1 lakh vaccination mark in a single day. It achieved another milestone by becoming the second district in the state after East Champaran to vaccinate over 2 lakh people in a day, having administered 2,01,142 doses during a mega camp on October 2.

Jharkhand, Assam, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi (NCR) have commenced Covid vaccination mega camps in collaboration with Care India, after its successful implementation in Patna, said an official.

In another decision, it was decided to provide online classes and coaching facilities to students from backward classes lodged in various hostels run by the state government.

The Ayurveda outdoor patient department (OPD) of Patna’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will now provide free medicines to its patients, said the institute officials on Friday

The Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, led by union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, held a function in Patna while LJP (Ram Vilas), led by Chirag Paswan, organised a similar function in New Delhi.

Party insiders said Prasad would stay at 10 Circular Road, the official residence of former CM and his wife Rabri Devi, under constant supervision of doctors and stay away from the crowd to avoid any health hazard.

Superintendent of police, Kaimur , Rakesh Kumar, confirmed the murder and use of iron rods in killing. He said two suspects have been taken into custody and their interrogations were on.

In all, 14 girls selected from shelter homes in Bihar were sent to Eurindian Academy of Hotel Management in Bengaluru by the state government in December 2020

Soon after his release from jail in a 32-year-old kidnapping case on Tuesday, Yadav had praised Congress, saying that his party will “support Congress in the assembly by-elections”.

These include archaeological remains discovered on the banks of Chandan river in Amarpur block of Banka district, the huge mound discovered at Guwaridih-Bariarpur in Bhagalpur district, the ancient Lord Shiva temple at Dumaria village in Gopalganj district and mausoleum of Qamar Ali and Sultan Ali and Dulhin Mandir at Sherghati in Gaya.

After attempting twice to crack the exam and getting a satisfactory rank, the 65th Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) exam topper Gourav Singh secured the first rank in his third attempt with sheer grit, and now wishes to improve the working at government offices for convenience of people

Transport minister Sheela Kumari held a meeting on Thursday with all DTOs to strictly implement the sale of helmets with two-wheelers. She said the decision was taken to reduce injuries and fatalities during road accidents.

Union tourism ministry has announced development plans for Bihar's Bodh Gaya, a famous Buddhist pilgrimage site, to attract tourists all year round.

An RSS worker described the high profile visits by RSS functionaries to Bihar as ‘routine’ and claimed that these were related just to the organisational work

According to the press release issued by the EOU, search was going on in the house of Sanjay Kumar, who joined service in 1987 and resides at Arya Kumar Road in Patna

Private schools have been asked to disperse 50% of students at a time and another half after a gap of 15 minutes

Police on Tuesday resorted to lathicharge after people refused to remove encroachment from the government land.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar ensued confidence that the NDA government will win the two assembly seats in the upcoming bypolls.

The party has decided to field declared Atirek Kumar, son of the former Congress legislature party leader Ashok Kumar, and Rajesh Kumar Mishra as its official nominees from Kusheshwar Asthan (reserved for the scheduled caste) in Darbhanga and Tarapur in Munger, respectively.

The former Bihar chief minister was addressing a meeting of his party’s senior leaders virtually from New Delhi, where he has been recuperating since his release from jail on bail earlier in fodder scam cases in which he was convicted.

Officials said that the department, after an assessment of different types of fertilizer, has put its requirement of urea at 12 lakh metric tonners, DAP(Di-ammonium phosphate) at 4 lakh metric tonnes, MOP (muriate of phosphate) at 1.5 lakh tonnes, 2 lakh metric tonnes of complex (mixture of nitrogenous, phosphatic and potash) and 1.25 lakh metric tonnes of SSP (single super phosphate).

The ECI, following a request from Jamaui MP Chirag Paswan, has given his faction the name of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and the election symbol “helicopter”.

Kumari herself is under a departmental probe since May this year when she was posted with the special branch in Patna.