The Latest Breaking News from Patna

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.

The Times of India · Jul 25, 2022

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…

The Times of India · Jul 25, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Jul 25, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Jul 24, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Jul 24, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Jul 24, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Jul 23, 2022

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…

The Times of India · Jul 23, 2022

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.

The Times of India · Jul 22, 2022

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,

The Hindu · Jul 21, 2022