Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the thirteenth-largest Indian state, with an area of 94,163 km2 (36,357 sq mi). The third-largest state by population, it is contiguous with Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the east, with Jharkhand to the south. The Bihar plain is split by the river Ganges, which flows from west to east. Three main regions converge in the state: Magadh, Mithila, and Bhojpur.
Floods have forced more than four million people from their homes across India, Nepal and Bangladesh and killed more than 100 people as torrential rains in the initial days of monsoons wreaked havoc...
While Congress members gave notice under Rule 267 seeking setting aside of the business of the day to take up the issue of Constitutional crisis in Karnataka, TMC members sent a similar notice over.. IndiaTimes - Published
Speaker Om Birla led the House in expressing condolence over the passing away of Paswan and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit. Paswan, a Lok Janshakti Party member, was a member from Samastipur.. IndiaTimes - Published
These cops have been accused of taking a bribe to release criminals who were recently apprehended in Naubatpur with stolen coins worth Rs 18 lakh DNA - Published
The death toll has risen to 97 so far with the highest number of casualties occurring in Sitamarhi district i.e. 27 followed by 18 in Madhubani district DNA - Published
Veteran Leftist leader, former Lok Sabha MP and founder of the Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC) AK Roy passed away at a hospital in Dhanbad on Sunday. IndiaTimes - Published
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader passed away around 10.30 a.m. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago. A four-time MP, Ramchandra Paswan represented Bihar's Samstipur in the Lok Sabha. He is.. IndiaTimes - Published
Girls went from being over a third the number of boys who migrated out of their state for education in 1992-2001 to almost half the number of boys by the 2011 census, which recorded a total of 5.4.. IndiaTimes - Published
Former interlocutor on Naga talks R N Ravi has been appointed as Nagaland governor, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. Noted lawyer and former Janata Dal MP Jagdeep Dhankhar was appointed as.. IndiaTimes - Published
Speaking on the mob lynching of three men in Bihar's Saran district over alleged attempt to steal cattle, Rampur MP Azam Khan said it is the "punishment" Muslims are getting after 1947 DNA - Published
More than 56 million Indians lived in states other than the ones they were born in, newly released census data for 2011 shows. While UP, Bihar, Rajasthan and MP had the highest ‘out-migration’,.. IndiaTimes - Published
The flood situation in Bihar and northeast India showed little improvement on Friday as over 1.15 crore people remained affected while the death toll due to flood and rain-related incidents neared 150... IndiaTimes - Published
A mob on Friday beat to death three men suspected of trying to steal cattle in India's eastern state of Bihar, police said, the latest in a spate of attacks that have provoked alarm among religious.. Reuters - Published
The recent floods here have adversely affected the normal life in as many as 12 districts of Bihar with Sitamarhi being the most hit by the incessant rains DNA - Published
The ensuing response from the BJP-RSS quarters ruffled feathers in the NDA coalition after which the JD(U) was seen getting into damage control mode DNA - Published
Of Assam's 33 districts, 28 remained under the grip of floods that has displaced nearly 54 lakh people and killed 36 people. DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes
There is no plan to restore special category status -- which has been scrapped by think- tank Niti Aayog -- to any state in the country, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Many states.. IndiaTimes - Published
The DM has instructed all government personnel or doctors present in the community kitchen centre to first eat the food themselves and then serve the flood victims DNA - Published
State BJP leaders expressed surprise over the police move with BJP MLC Sachchidanand Rai saying the party must be careful of the intentions of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who holds the home portfolio.. DNA - Published
Gourav Gogoi of the Congress asked the Centre to declare floods in Assam a national disaster and said 15 persons have been killed and over 43 lakh displaced by the natural calamity. DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes
The teenager with roots in Bihar currently resides in Jharkhand, where his father is a government official. His mother works at a bank in Patna. According to Bhagalpur district administration.. IndiaTimes - Published
The flood situation remained grim in parts of northeast and Bihar as the death toll mounted to 44 on Monday, with nearly 70 lakh people affected, even as north India witnessed widespread rainfall. IndiaTimes - Published
Responding on the matter, BPSC said, "the person who put the question on a Constitutional post in BPSC Mains exam, has been asked for an explanation, and has been barred from setting a question paper.. DNA - Published
Opposition RJD on Monday alleged that the JD(U) government has failed to tackle the flood situation in Bihar, even as state minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav asserted that the government was taking.. IndiaTimes - Published
India Metrological Department (IMD) officers informed the minister that in the last 3-4 days, Assam and Bihar have received extremely heavy downpour. DNA - Published
While the Indian Meteorological Department predicted heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours in Bihar, the flood situation in Assam continues to worsen DNA - Published
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