NEW DELHI: Some protesters in Bihar tried to set a school bus on fire during Bharat Bandh agitation on Wednesday.A video shared by the news agency IANS showed agitators surrounding a yellow school bus in the Gopalganj area. Amidst the turmoil, a man was seen setting a tyre ablaze directly under the bus.The visuals showed…
A viral video from Patna’s Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport shows an intense confrontation between a cobra and mongooses on the runway. NEW DELHI: A video showing an intense fight between a cobra and mongooses has gone viral on social media. The incident is reported to be from Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport in Patna,…
NEW DELHI: At least 7 were killed and 9 injured after a stampede broke out at Baba Siddhnath Temple in Makhdumpur in Bihar‘s Jehanabad district. “DM and SP visited the spot and they are taking stock of the situation,” SHO of Jehanabad, Divakar Kumar Vishwakarma told news agency ANI.The SHO confirmed that they are in…
PATNA: Political strategist-turned activist Prashant Kishor has said that the people of Bihar are fed up with the JD(U), BJP and RJD and on October 2, they will float a new political party to end this ‘vicious cycle’. Prashant Kishor was speaking in Patna after a function of the ‘Jan Suraaj’ campaign he had launched…
PATNA: Bihar Police have registered a case in connection with an email threatening to blow up the chief minister‘s office here, a senior officer said. According to an FIR registered on the basis of the statement of Sachivalaya Police Station SHO Sanjeev Kumar, the email was sent to the CMO on July 16.The sender of…
PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Saturday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 1,600-crore cement grinding unit of Ambuja Concrete North Private Limited, a subsidiary of Gautam Adani‘s Ambuja Cement Limited (ACL), at Warisaliganj industrial area in Bihar’s Nawada.“The investment is a testament to Bihar’s growth potential and our commitment to fostering sustainable development for…
PATNA: A six-year-old pre-primary student of a Bihar school carried his father’s licensed pistol to class Wednesday and ended up “mistakenly” pulling the trigger on a 10-year-old boy inside a classroom. The bullet struck the Class III student’s left palm.Police said the owner of the gun, a guard at the same school in Supaul district’s…
NEW DELHI: A five-year-old nursery student brought a handgun to school and opened fire on a classmate, injuring a Class 3 student. The incident took place on Wednesday, with the ten-year-old victim sustaining an injury to his arm.According to Superintendent of Police Shaishav Yadav, “The student fired at a 10-year-old boy, who studies in the…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday reacted to opposition allegations that Bihar and Andhra Pradesh were preferred over other states in the Union Budget 2024, terming them ‘outragous’ in Rajya Sabha. “In every Budget, you don’t get an opportunity to name every state of this country. The Cabinet had taken a decision…
Dressed in an off-white Mangalagiri sari with a purple-golden border, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented her seventh consecutive Union Budget, reading from a tablet PC that was wrapped in the red-coloured ‘bahi-khata’ style pouch she has used for all her Budget speeches in place of the leather briefcase — called ‘budget’ from the…
