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 …
The district mining officers in Bihar are ignorant of the environmental effects of mining and have allowed brick kiln owners to mine without No-Objection Certificates (NOCs) from State Pollution Control Board, the latest CAG report has found. According to the report, during the test checking of registers of brick kilns …
A study done by International Growth Centre (IGC) said that 71% of the budget for hot cooked meals at around 200 anganwadi centres (AWCs) in Bihar was lost in leakage. It also revealed that 38% of the Take Home Ration (THR) fund too gets lost in leakage. IDinsight, one of …
Seven more children have succumbed to encephalitis in Bihar, taking the total deaths in the state since early May to 18, officials said Thursday. Two of the children died Wednesday and one Thursday morning in hospitals in Muzaffarpur district, a health official said. Over half a dozen children were warded …
An innovation needs support to survive. The same innovation can make a revolution, provided it gets the recognition and support from the government. The Bihar government has shown how an innovation when transformed into a revolution can influence food production.
The prevailing intense cold wave has claimed 11 more lives in Bihar, taking the total number of deaths in the state due to inclement weather to 18, an official said Thursday. "The inclement weather claimed 11 more lives within a span of 24 hours, taking the death toll to 18 …
The Centre has sanctioned 2,389 projects under the Integrated Action Plan for construction of 9,070 km of roads at an estimated cost of Rs 3,387 crore in rural Bihar to mitigate the impact of Naxal insurgency. State Rural Works Minister, Bhim Singh, said that rural road projects with a specific …
The Centre has sanctioned 2,389 projects under the Integrated Action Plan for the construction of 9,070 km of road at an estimated cost of Rs 3,387 crore in rural Bihar to mitigate the impact of naxal insurgency. Rural Works Minister Bhim Singh said that rural road projects with a specific …
Encephalitis toll in Bihar has risen to 221 since May this year following death of 12 more patients on Wednesday, official sources said. Altogether 153 children have died due to symptoms of encephalitis in the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital and Kejriwal Charitable Hospital in Muzaffarpur, while 52 children …
The Bihar government confirmed on Tuesday that 100 children aged below 13 have died because of suspected encephalitis this season, mostly in Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Motihari, Sitamarhi and also in peripheral Patna. Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey said: “We confirm 100 deaths in last two months but are yet to know …
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 …
New Delhi: Ali Husain Ansari, a weaver of embroidered Mughal textiles and owner of Abdul Ghani Silk in Varanasi town of northern India, says he has not benefited from the government’s financial package for weavers announced in December 2011. “All the money sanctioned by the government has gone to cooperative …
The Patna High Court has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on measures taken to treat and control encephalitis cases, especially in Magadh region. The government has to file its reply within two weeks. Since August, of the 386 children admitted at ANMMCH, 83 died — the …
Bihar is in the grip of yet another lethal outbreak of viral encephalitis, which has claimed the lives of 82 children in the Magadh division so far. The latest death was reported on Sunday. The division's only government hospital, the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College Hospital, has been swamped with …
Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of eight more children in the last five days in Bihar's Gaya district, taking the death toll in the epidemic to 62, a health official said Thursday. The two children died in the last 24 hours and six in the last five days …
Gaya: At least 59 people have so far died of encephalitis in Gaya, according to Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH). The figure does not include villagers who died either during faith healing or fell victim to quacks. This year’s death toll has already crossed the 2008 figure, …
Bihar is in the grip of yet another seasonal outbreak of encephalitis that has claimed the lives of at least 16 children in the Magadh division in less than three weeks. As on Sunday, the government-run Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) in Gaya district reported at least 65 admissions …
Kolkata Government-owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has decided to set up 10 more steel-processing units across the country, once its expansion programme of ramping up hot metal capacity from the present 14 million tonne (mt) to 24 mt per annum is completed by 2013. Union steel minister Beni Prasad …
Alarmingly deficient monsoon rains, canals with little water and defunct tube wells have brought back the fear of a drought in large parts of Bihar for the second consecutive year. Sensing the farmers
Patna: Sixteen persons, including three children, were killed and more than 25 injured when a high velocity storm struck eastern Bihar on Friday morning. This is the second instance of a thunderstorm hitting the State after a Nor'wester hit West Bengal, Bihar and Assam last month, claiming more than 130 …
Gaya (Bihar), Apr 29: Ten-year-old Jayjeet, a resident of Bihar's Gaya District, has used new methods of cultivation to increase his yield. "Our production is doubling, even tripling, using general (methods). In general, the yield is one and a half tonnes when we do it through. We are getting straight …
