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NHAI chairperson assures fast-tracking key National Highway projects in Bihar

PATNA: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)’s chairperson Alka Upadhyaya on Tuesday assured the Bihar government of commencing the bidding process for several major national highways projects the state including Patna- Ara- Sasaram, Areraj- Bettiah, Mokama- Munger and Buxar- Haidariya, in the ongoing year.

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Nitish Kumar skips swearing-in of President Droupadi Murmu, leading to speculations about sour relation between BJP and JD(U)

PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar didn’t attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Droupadi Murmu in the national capital on Monday. It was the second invite by BJP’s top brass in the last four days that Nitish preferred to stay away from, leading to speculations that is not all well between…

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Patna: Union minister for home affairs Amit Shah to address BJP meet on July 31

PATNA: Union minister for home affairs, Amit Shah, and BJP national president J P Nadda will be in Patna next week to address a two-day joint convention of the party's all seven 'morchas' (frontal organisations) to be held at Gyan Bhawan here.

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Former servicemen's body wants clarity on Bihar 'quota' under Agnipath

PATNA: Bihar Ex-Servicemen Association (officers), BESA, has sought clarity from the ministry of defence that whether under the Agnipath scheme it would continue recruitment of around 1,000 aspirants from Bihar, which has so far been contributing about 11.5% personnel in the armed forces every year. The ministry of defence has…

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Tap North East by making Bihar manufacturing hub: State industry minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain

PATNA: State industry minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain on Sunday held a meeting with selected industrialists in Delhi and appealed to them to make Bihar their manufacturing hub to get a good hold in the big market of northeast states.

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Health department alerted as illegal blood trade rampant in Patna

PATNA: The recovery of 44 packets of blood from a house under Patrakar Nagar police station area on Saturday exposed the rampant illegal trade in connivance with private health centres in Patna. A health department official said on Sunday that the drug inspectors would be asked to raid the places…

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289 more test positive for Covid in Bihar

PATNA: The state on Sunday witnessed a slight decrease in number of Covid cases with 289 people testing positive for the virus against 1,06,747 samples tested. Altogether 305 people recovered from the virus in the state in the last 24 hours.

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Patna: Experts say people should take precautions against monkeypox

PATNA: With the WHO declaring the monkeypox as a global emergency and at least four cases detected in India, health experts have cautioned people against this highly infectious disease.

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Terror plot in Patna: NIA takes over probe

PATNA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over investigations into the terror module busted in Phulwarisharif locality of Patna and the arrest of sleeper cell member Magroob Ahmad Danish alias Iliyas Tahir, who allegedly had links with Pakistan-based radical outfit Tehreek-e-Labbaik.

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Agnipath recruitment exam heldpeacefully at 26 centres in Bihar

PATNA: The first-ever examination for the recruitment in Indian Air Force (IAF) through the Centre’s new Agnipath scheme started at 26 centres in five districts of Bihar on Sunday amid tight security.

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Three Bhagalpur students share top position in Bihar in ISC exam

PATNA: Shivangi Rani, Aastik Das and Priyanshi Ghosh from Bhagalpur emerged the joint state toppers with 99% in the Indian School Certificate (ISC) Class XII examination conducted by the the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE). The results were declared on Sunday. The three scored 396 out of…

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Bihar: Five killed, six injured in illegal fireworks unit blast

PATNA: Five of a family were killed and six others sustained injuries after an explosion in an illegal fireworks-manufacturing unit in Bihar’s Saran district on Sunday.

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Union home minister Amit Shah to arrive in Patna on July 31, J P Nadda on July 30 to address BJP's two-day event

PATNA: Union minister for home affairs Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda will arrive in the state capital next week to address a two-day joint convention of the party's all seven ‘Morchas' (frontal organisations), to be held at Gyan Bhawan in Patna.

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Five members of a family killed, six others injured after an explosion at cracker making house in Bihar's Saran district

PATNA: Five persons of a family were killed, and six others injured, three of them seriously, after an explosion in a firecracker-making house at Khodaibag village in Bihar’s Saran district on Sunday.

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60 big firms participate in Bihar Investors meet at Hyderabad

PATNA: Top executives of 60 prominent companies across various sectors such as information technology (IT), food processing, textile, pharmaceutical and agrotech participated in the Bihar Investors Meet organised by state industries department at Hyderabad on Saturday.

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Bihar: NIA special court awards 20 years rigorous imprisonment to FICN trafficker

PATNA: A special NIA court at Patna has convicted and sentenced a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) trafficker Mohd Ali Akhtar Ansari for trafficking FICN worth Rs 25 Lakh across India- Nepal border via Raxaul in East Champaran district in September, 2015. A Pakistani national, who presently stays in the…

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900 people died due to lightning strikes in Bihar in last two-and-a-half years

PATNA: Altogether 900 people died due to lightning strikes in Bihar in the last two and a half years.

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Hoax bomb threat on IndiGo's Patna-Delhi flight; passenger detained

The flight, which was scheduled to depart at 8.20 p.m., had to be grounded following the hoax threat,

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launches school and hostel projects worth about Rs 415 crore

PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday launched different projects worth about Rs 415 crore of the backward classes extremely backward classes welfare department during an event held at ‘Samvad’ hall in the CM secretariat in Patna.

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Rakesh Tikait to begin farmers' agitation in Bihar from October

PATNA: Well-known farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday said he would unite all small and large organisations that are agitating for the cause of farmers in Bihar and start a big agitation in the state from October.

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Bihar: Sitamarhi woman gives birth on road

PATNA: A chilling video has emerged from Sitamarhi in which a woman could be seen giving birth to a baby on a road just outside the sadar hospital. A doctor at the hospital had referred her to Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur due to low haemoglobin.

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Active member of PFI: Fourth accused in Phulwarisharif terror module held in Lucknow

PATNA: Bihar police probing the terror module busted in Phulwarisharif locality of Patna on Saturday arrested a lawyer, an active member of Popular Front of India (PFI), from Lucknow with the help of Uttar Pradesh's anti-terrorism squad. Three people were earlier arrested in connection with the case.

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Phulwarisharif terror module: Bihar police arrests lawyer from Lucknow

PATNA: Bihar police with the help of Uttar Pradesh’s anti-terrorism squad (ATS) on Saturday arrested a lawyer in Lucknow while probing the network of a terror module linked with PFI and SDPI involved in anti-national activities at Patna’s Phulwarisharif area, the police officials said.

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Bihar: Power theft worth Rs 34 crore detected, 10,000 FIRs lodged

PATNA: The Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited (BSPHCL) detected power theft worth Rs 34.37 crore in 20 circles across the state and registered 10,357 FIRs against the defaulters besides recovering Rs 30.15 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal. Of Rs 34.37 crore, Rs 20.52 crore was recovered…

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NIRF rankings: IIT-Patna slides to 59th position, NIT-P fares well

PATNA: The IIT Patna (IIT-P) slid down eight notches in the "overall" category and secured the 59th rank in the country among the higher education institutes as per the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) report released on Friday. It also slid down in the engineering category from 21st rank to…

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