Two members of a family were shot dead, and four others sustained injuries in a firing incident on Monday in Bihar’s Lakhisarai. The incident unfolded in Punjabi Mohalla under the Kabaiya police station of Lakhisarai as the family was returning from a nearby ghat after performing Chhath pooja. Several members of a family were shot …
Top labour-sending states include UP, Bihar, Kerala, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu. MUMBAI: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have begun replacing Kerala, which was a significant contributor to the blue-collar workforce, from India to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, a report said on Friday. Over the last decade, there has been a notable shift in …
Reported by Maulik Pathak | Written by Kunal Gaurav Four migrant labourers from Bihar lost their lives due to suffocation while working inside a septic tank in a village in Surat, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred at a dyeing factory on Palsana-Katodara road on Tuesday evening. Authorities have initiated an investigation to uncover …
Poor background can be a hurdle but cannot stop you from fulfilling your dreams if you are determined. The inspiring story of Satyam Kumar, the son of a farmer in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, clearly tells this. Kumar, who is currently doing his Ph.D. in Brain-Machine Interfaces at the University of Texas in Austin, …
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s government tabled the quota amendment bill yesterday (File). Patna: The Bihar Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to increase reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and Extremely Backward Classes in state jobs and educational institutions to 65 per cent. This is well past the Supreme Court’s 50 …
The explanation of the Indian state of Bihar’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on how education played a pivotal role in guiding women in population control included some bizarre and crass statements, leading to huge criticism of the leader as the video of his speech went viral on social media. The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) sharply …
New Delhi: The second tranche of data from the Bihar government’s caste-based survey – and the full report on the economic condition of 215 Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes – was tabled in the Assembly this afternoon. According to the report, more than 42 per cent of families from Scheduled …
You can call it a car cemetery. On sprawling three acres of prime land in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, over a hundred dilapidated vehicles are being arranged in stacks before each one is hauled for a 200-minute last journey. Unlike the birth of a car – from welding to painting – which takes 18-35 hours, depending …