NEW DELHI: Posters calling for Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to be awarded the “Bharat Ratna” were seen outside the Janata Dal (United) party office in Patna, according to news agency ANI on Saturday.Earlier on Friday, Nitish Kumar while reviewing the flood situation in Bihar revealed that a sum of Rs 307 crore has been…
The latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 16 featured Nisha Raj, an aspiring competitor from Patna, Bihar. Nisha’s story is particularly inspiring because she hopes to utilise her possible earnings to buy a house for her father. This would not only be her first big earnings, but also the realisation of a long-held family…
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,…
PATNA/BHILWARA/JAIPUR: A medical student from Rajasthan was arrested by CBI in Patna on Saturday in connection with the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case. He is the eighth MBBS student to be nabbed so far.Sandeep Kumar Bishnoi, a first year MBBS student of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia (RVRS) Medical College in Bhilwara, was called to Patna…
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: 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: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant a stay on the Patna high court‘s decision that scrapped the Bihar state law reserving 65% of government jobs for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and backward classes.The bench, consisting of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra,…
NEW DELHI: Several airports across India received bomb threats on Tuesday causing flight delays. Security has also been heightened in view of the threats.In the morning, a Dubai-bound flight which was to take off from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) received a bomb threat email. Also, preliminary inquiries revealed that the unknown sender had…
NEW DELHI: A passenger train traveling from Patna to Jharkhand caught fire in Lakhisarai, Bihar. The blaze engulfed multiple coaches of the train, prompting immediate action from emergency responders.Firefighting teams are currently at the scene, working diligently to extinguish the flames and prevent further damage. Authorities have not yet released information regarding the cause of…
PATNA: Two persons lost their lives when a boat overturned in the Ganga River near Mahavir Tola ghat at Maner, located in the Patna district on Sunday morning.The boat was carrying a total of 12 passengers, all of whom were farmers carrying their vegetables from the Diyara area to Mahavir tola. According to the Police…
