Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in …
More than five hundred pigeons have dropped dead at a village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeonkeepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. “We were shocked, and we cannot …
More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss. District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in …
Bihar has set out to match Mumbai with its own version of the Marine Drive. The 21.5km Ganga Path, coming up in Patna by June 2015, will be one of the country’s biggest public-private-partnership projects at an estimated cost of Rs 2,234.46 crore. The Bihar State Road Development Corporation will …
With only about 2,000 Gangetic river dolphins left in India, down from tens of thousands just a few decades ago, the Bihar government is planning to set up Asia's first research centre to strengthen conservation efforts to save the endangered mammal. An official in the chief minister's office said the …
Bird flu or avian influenza is threatening Bihar's poultry industry and an SOS has been sent to the central government on tackling the deadly H5N1 virus as the state lacks the resources to do so, a Bihar minister said. The SOS was sent after the Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease …
Activists say similar plants elsewhere in the country are lying defunct. The small municipality of Bhagalpur in Bihar is considering setting up a waste-to-energy plant in the city. On February 19, the city municipal corporation selected one of the proposals submitted to it to manage the city's waste. The proposals …
Bhagalpur, Feb. 19: The administration has stepped up vigil against poachers to save migratory birds at the eco-friendly Gangetic diara in the district. The diara (sandbar) is considered a green belt and was in the news recently when the residents of Dharhara, a village in the riverine area, decided to …
Worshipped in Hindu religious texts as the mount of Lord Vishnu, the rarely sighted Garuda (Greater Adjutant) is flourishing in a remote village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. With this important discovery, Bihar has joined Cambodia and Assam on the world’s avian map as the third site of its kind where …
Patna: An alert was sounded on Monday as the overall flood situation in Bihar worsened following heavy rains in the catchment areas of the rivers and the discharge of water from two dams in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. CM Nitish Kumar has directed the state water resources and disaster …
With six more deaths reported from several areas today, the toll in the powerful earthquake rose to eight in Bihar, official sources said. While Darbhanga accounted for four deaths, one each was killed in Nawada, Nalanda, Bhagalpur and Sheorhar districts. Among those killed in Darbhanga district, one woman drowned when …
With the submergence of thousands of villages in nine districts in Bihar appearing inevitable due to an alarming rise in the water levels of the Sone and the Ganga, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday conducted an aerial survey to oversee the preparations for evacuation and relief distribution. “Teams of …
Thirty people died in the last three days as the Ganga river flooded over half a dozen districts including Bhagalpur, Purnea and Katihar, with 10 deaths in Bhagalpur alone. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who conducted an aerial survey of the 14 districts affected, said that over 500 relief camps had …
More than 70,000 families are facing the wrath of the turbulent Ganga in Bihar's Bhagalpur district. Aerial survey On Sunday afternoon, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who conducted an aerial survey of the areas ravaged by the river, however, told journalists here that “flood waters were receding” and that no major …
While mass predilections in Bihar are still veering towards the male child, the Nitish Kumar government will be pleased with the provisional Census 2011 data for the State, which has indicated a 20 per cent jump in the State's female literacy rate. As per the report, literacy rates for women …
In an important decision, the Bihar Government has decided to disallow field trials of Bt maize in the State, citing probable hazards to personal health and the environment in general. Speaking to journalists outside the State Legislature, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that taking cognizance of the dangers involved,
Trivalent chromium occurs naturally in rocks, soil and plants. Cr (VI) is produced when Cr (III) is heated in the presence of mineral bases. Cr (VI) compounds are emitted into the air, water and soil by different industries.
Hardly any house peeps out of the foliage of mango orchards over village Dharhara in Bihar’s Bhagalpur disrict. Bias against girls is almost non-existent here. Unlike other parts of the state where the birth of a girl is usually greeted with grief, families in Dharhara celebrate the birth of a …
Alto gether 18 children were born blind in the arsenic affected blocks of Bhojpur district during the past three months, Bihar health minis- ter Nand Kishore Yadav confirmed on Wednesday. The cause of the blindness was not yet known, but health department officials were in touch with ophthal- mologists, he …
PATNA: Altogether 18 children were born blind in the arsenic affected blocks of Bhojpur district during the past three months, Bihar Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav confirmed. The cause of the blindness was not yet known, but health department officials were in touch with ophthalmologists, he said. The arsenic affected …
