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• Bhaskar plans to enter Bihar, Jharkhand

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, with an estimated readership of 3.3 crore, is poised to enter Bihar and Jharkhand markets, rolling out editions in the two states in the next six-eight months. According to sources, the project is in the planning phase at the moment. The group is negotiating the land deals and ...
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• Nation remembers Rajendra Prasad on 125th birth anniversary

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  A grateful nation pays homage to the first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad on his 125th birth anniversary on Thursday. Bihar will observe “Vidhi Diwas” (Law Day) on December 3 to mark the birth anniversary of first President Dr Rajendra Prasad. Prasad was born on December 3, 1884 in Jiradei village of ...
  17 hours ago

• ‘Clean Ganga’ to get $1bn WB boost

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  NEW DELHI — India’s relaunched programme to clean its sacred river Ganga will get $1 billion from the World Bank, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Bank President Robert B Zoellick announced here Wednesday. “The Ganga has sustained civilisation throughout time, but is today burdened by expanding ...
  19 hours ago

• Govt to form CAT like body to resolve varsity issues

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — The Bihar government will constitute a tribunal to deal with the growing number of university disputes – mostly related to retirement dues and promotion. “The proposed body would be on the lines of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and facilitate the solving of university disputes,” Anjani ...
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• Killer of 11 cops arrested

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  NAWADA — A top Maoist leader, accused in the killing of 11 policemen, was arrested today in Nawada district. Acting on a tip-off, police raided Mahuliatand village in the district and arrested Meero Ravidas, SP Anil Kishore Yadav said. Ravidas was the prime accused in the killing of 11 policemen in the same ...
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• State employees to get cheaper food

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — The state government in Bihar is selling food items to its employees at subsidized rates to help them survive the shooting prices of essential commodities. The government has opened a departmental store for its employees in the state assembly annexe but plans to open many such stores at the district ...
  20 hours ago

• Choubey asks Joshi to stick to old ‘water formula’

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — The Bihar government has requested the Centre to reconsider its new guideline on drinking water projects, which prescribes that the project cost be shared by the state and the Centre on a 50:50 basis. The state has instead pleaded for the old funding formula in which the Centre used to fund 75% of the ...
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• CM contests Chidambaram’s claim on CRF

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — Brushing aside the statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Calamity Relief Fund (CRF) balance in the state, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today renewed his demand for special reconstruction and rehabilitation package for victims of 2008 Kosi floods. “In fact the Centre’s accounting on ...
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• Six years after rescue, former child labourers rehabilitated

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Between 1993 and 2003, 143 child labourers were rescued from the carpet industry in Bihar. But it is only after six years that 81 of them have been rehabilitated, and that too after India’s apex human rights body intervened.According to an official of the National Human Rights Commission ...
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• 81 child labourers rehabilitated in Bihar on NHRC’s intervention

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has managed to get rehabilitated 81 child labourers in Bihar out of 143 belonging to different districts of the state and rescued from carpet looms in Uttar Pradesh during 1993-2003. The Commission has asked the district authorities to complete ...
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• Junior doctors get pay hike

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — Accepting the long-standing demand of over 1,000 junior doctors in Bihar, the state government today increased their stipend to Rs 25,000 from Rs 13,500 per month with effect from April 1. A decision to this effect was taken by the state cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, this morning, ...
  2 days ago

• 6 sentenced to jail term in riot case

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — A court in Bihar sentenced six persons accused in a case of murder during the 1989 riots in Bhagalpur to two years rigorous imprisonment after convicting them of involvement in the crime, court sources said Tuesday. Bhagalpur Additional District and Sessions judge Anil Kumar Pandey acquitted the six of ...
  2 days ago

• Sex sentenced to jail term in riot case

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — A court in Bihar sentenced six persons accused in a case of murder during the 1989 riots in Bhagalpur to two years rigorous imprisonment after convicting them of involvement in the crime, court sources said Tuesday. Bhagalpur Additional District and Sessions judge Anil Kumar Pandey acquitted the six of ...
  2 days ago

• Free condoms through PDS in Bihar

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — People in Bihar will soon get free condoms at fair price shops. The distribution of free condoms will be made through PDS (public distribution system) shops in the state, official sources said Tuesday. Bihar State AIDS Control Society (BSACS) has decided to use PDS shops to distribute free condoms in the ...
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• 595 fresh HIV+ cases every month

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — About 595 fresh HIV positive cases are recorded every month in Bihar in 2009 as against zero in the state before 2001, according to the figures of NACO’s Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC). With 6550 fresh cases detected in the current year so far, the total number of HIV-infected now ...
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• Law official beaten to death in Bihar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Patna, Dec 1 (IANS) A law official was beaten to death Tuesday by his neighbours in Bihar’s Chapra town after a dispute over a leaky stove turned violent, police said. Five people have been arrested for the crime.Harinder Prasad Sharma, who is an additional public prosecutor in Chapra district civil court, was ...
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• Free condoms through PDS in Bihar to combat AIDS

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Patna, Dec 1 (IANS) People in Bihar will soon get free condoms at fair price shops. The distribution of free condoms will be made through PDS (public distribution system) shops in the state, official sources said Tuesday.Bihar State AIDS Control Society (BSACS) has decided to use PDS shops to distribute free condoms ...
  2 days ago

• Black Tuesday & Wednesday

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 130
  In the last week or so it seems like I haven’t been able to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV without hearing about so-called Black Friday – that orgy of consumer spending that erupts every year in the US on the day after that orgy of gluttony known as Thanksgiving. Stories about what I’ve come to think of ...
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• 26 get life sentence in one day

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  PATNA — Twenty six people were today sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment in separate murder cases in two districts of Bihar. The fast track court of the Additional Sessions Judge of Begusarai district, R P Singh sentenced twenty persons to rigorous life imprisonment for murdering one Lakhendra Paswan at ...
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• Six gets lifer for murder

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 443
  NAWADA — A local court today awarded life imprisonment to six people for murdering a person in Nawada district seven months ago. Additional sessions judge Bipin Bihari Lal found the six guilty of killing Vijay Kumar of Kunhila village on April 20 this year. He also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 each to two convicts. ...
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