Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
J P YADAV & SANTOSH SINGH NEW DELHI, PATNA: A day after he took a swipe at Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar over his handshake with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today telephoned Kumar to
J. Balaji NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has warned the District Election Officers and the Returning Officers that they would be personally held responsible if there was any report of employment of child labourers for poll-related works. Taking cognisance of a photograph published by The Hindu on Thursday wherein children …
This working paper by the planning commission seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. Is based on findings from studies in Andhra Pradesh,Uttar Pradesh,Bihar & Rajasthan. This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health …
This is a recent report by Planning Commission on utilization of funds and assets created through Ganga Action Plan. It has been prepared for the Supreme Court and is based on data obtained from CPCB, MoEF and the field visits made to plant sites in Uttarakhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. …
NAMRATA BIJI AHUJA and SRIDHAR KUMARASWAMI NEW DELHI The Central assistance to Naxal-infested states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa have failed to contain the rising incidents of Maoist violence ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. On Wednesday, BSF director-general M.L. Kumawat submitted a report to the home ministry on …
Patna: Fed up with official apathy, people of a Bihar village, suffering for decades due to high fluoride content in drinking water, have sent politicians the simple message: no safe drinking water, no votes. Villagers in Khaira in Jamui constituency have decided to boycott the April 16 polls and have …
This article examines and discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) related to sanitation in Unsar Pranti in Muzaffarpur district, in Bihar. The findings are based on fieldwork done during October-November 2008. An NGO called ADTHI PLAN has been working on a sanitation project in the village for the past …
Expressing concern over disruption by local people in repairing of the Kosi river embankment at Kusaha in Nepal, the Bihar government on Monday sought Centre
Change is not something that happens automatically. Our collective effort is what acts as a catalyst in the process of change, said Sharda Devi, President of Samagra Jal Vikas Samiti of Pipra. Earlier, women of this village had to walk 2 to 3 kilometers to collect water, spending most of …
The breach of the Kosi embankment in Nepal in August 2008 marked the failure of conventional ways of controlling floods. After discussing the physical characteristics of the Kosi River and the Kosi barrage project, this paper suggests that the high sediment content of the Kosi River implies a major risk …
The 2008-09 Economic Survey of Bihar has projected a 5.57 per cent growth in the Net State Domestic Product (NSDP)after comfortably surpassing the previous records of achieving only around three to four per cent growth per annum. Economic development of a State is a continuous process and needs regular interventions …
The endemic western UP region, epicentre of all polio outbreaks, remained free of P1 for a record one-and-a-half years till mid-2008 Bihar recorded only 3 new cases of the P1 virus in 2008 New injectible polio vaccine (IPV) to be used to eradicate the disease India may still be a …
Far from providing reliefto flood victims, the state government and centre are busy blaming each other More than four months after the Kosi river breached its embankment and drowned large parts of Bihar, Mahendra Sharma, a casual labourer in Bihar
