50 villages flooded in Muzaffarpur
MUZAFFARPUR: Tirhut divisional commissioner Narmadeshwar Lal on Sunday asked officials concerned to keep a close watch on embankments in the region amid rise in water level in several rivers. The Bagmati
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Mosquito menace continues unabated, civic body clueless
PATNA: With the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) virtually failing to curb breeding of mosquitoes in various localities of the city, people are at the receiving end here. Despite using all types of repellents,
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Study: Bacteria reduces concentration of arsenic in groundwater
PATNA: A team of the Centre for Biological Sciences (CBS) at Central University of South Bihar (CUSB) has found two strains of bacteria that reduce the arsenic concentration in groundwater. The research
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IGIMS to start cervical cancer vaccination soon
PATNA: After the inclusion of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a mode of specific prevention against cervical cancer in India's universal immunisation programme (UIP) as per a decision by the National
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Petition filed against Falgu water pollution
GAYA: Drain effluents enter Falgu riverbed at no less than 24 points thereby aggravating subsurface water pollution. In several localities of the town, handpumps and submersible machines draw water with
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Measles rubella vaccination from September
PATNA: The state government will launch measles rubella (MR) vaccination campaign in September this year. The central government had launched it in August last year. According to the national immunization
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Mall wake-up call for temple's eco nod
Patna: Construction work of the Virat Ramayan Mandir, coming up near Kesariya in East Champaran district around 130km north of Patna and billed as the world's largest Hindu temple, has not yet started
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‘India accounts for 60% of new leprosy cases in world’
PATNA: Dermatologists on Sunday stressed on the need to create awareness about leprosy and disintegrate it from other public health programmes. In 2005, India had officially declared to have eliminated
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Government starts e-auction of ghats for sand mining in 9 districts
PATNA: The sand crisis in the state is likely to be eased shortly as the mines and geology department is to commence e-auction for sand mining rights of around 170 ghats in 12 districts from next week.
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Bhagalpur civic body to make manure from biodegradable waste
BHAGALPUR: The Bhagalpur Municipal Corporation (BMC) now plans to segregate wastes into two categories - biodegradable wastes and non-biodegradable wastes-before disposing them off at dumping grounds.
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HC orders action against polluting industries in district
PATNA: The Patna high court on Tuesday ordered the Patna district magistrate (DM) to take action against the unauthorized iron chest manufacturing small-scale industries in Alamganj and Sultanganj area