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Patna Doc Discussed HIV AIDS Control at CDC Atlanta - 2010-01-11

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:12:38

Noted Physician and HIV AIDS Specialist & Social Activist Dr Diwakar Tejaswi attended special discussion on HIV AIDS Control and newer strategies developed recently by CDC for the prevention of HIV spread yesterday at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarter, Atlanta, USA. Dr Tejaswi was invited by AIDS experts at CDC to share his views for the effective control and prevention of HIV AIDS in the developing world.

The education that can raise per capita income of Bihar - 2009-09-28

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:54:10

Have you ever thought over why Bihar with Rs 6,610 per capita income continues to occupy the lowest position in the country whereas the national per capita income is Rs 38,084?
Do you have any reasons to explain for the sorry state of affairs? What are the things in state which you could be proud of ? Will you continue to harp on what Bihar had in the past, refusing to acknowledge the reality of todays€™s life style there? Don't you think we need to wake up to the necessity of exploring the possibilities of making Bihar on a par with other developed states within the country, if not the world?

English for the Masses - 2009-08-14

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:26:03

After almost four decades, Bihar has woken up to English education in the state, making English a compulsory subject in Board Examinations from the commencement of the academic session 2010. â€œBihar can no longer afford to lag behind as far as English education is concernedâ€, says Raghubansh Kumar, Bihar School Examination Board academic director.

Advance Ambulance Services Starts In Patna - 2009-06-04

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:54:27

Chief minister Nitish Kumar has inaugurated the Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support ambulance services in Patna on wednesday. An enterprise of public-private parternership this service was long desired. After the new govt. took action improving the health services across the state there was a strong feeling about the need of improved ambulance services.
The 10 ultra modern ambulance with ample of costlier life support system has been pressed into the service as a pilot project. The ambulance are fitted with GSM technology also to trace the location of the van. A technician and a helper will be with each ambulance to assist the patient. At present the 10 ambulance has been deployed at 10 different location of Patna. People of rural Patna who lives at the outskirts of the state capital can also call at 108 to get the service.

Bihar Appeals Banks For Easy Loans - 2009-05-31

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:06:36

Dy. Chief Minister Sushil Kr. Modi has requested the central govt to release orders for a lesser interest rate for "education loan" by the banks. Mr. Modi has directed the banks to make the loan sanction process easy. In a meeting with the representatives of different banks working in Bihar, Mr. Modi expressed his dissatisfaction over the banks performance in context of giving loans to students. "You are making good profits from this poor state despite the global slowdown and cut-backs, you to corroborate this. Thus, dont' our students deserves a better service from you. I expect you to ensure more waiver on education loan and processes be smoother", Mr. Modi said.
State govt. also given direction to the General Managers to establish a nodal center so students do not have to go through difficulties getting loan. As per bank's credit account a sum of Rs. 577.56 crore has been sanctioned among 23348 students in the financial year 2008-2009. This figure sprangs up from Rs. 280.93 crores an year before (2007-2008) after the intervention from Nitish govt. The situation is improving still a rapid pace is required and more efforts need to be done on bank's part. According to experts at present the banks are charging a hefty 10-14% interest on education loan which is more than enough to destract the students.

One Dead In NTPC in Barh - 2009-05-30

Sun, 31 May 2009 02:07:07

On saturday morning there is a major accident in the NTPC newest establishment in Barh, some 60 kms from the state capital. One technician come to death on the spot. The incident occured during the setting of Cell in chimney no. 1 when all of a sudden the high tension rope broken down. The 25 years old technician cum helper Vikas Kr. alias Vicky become the victim. The police approached the thermal premises and taken the body into custody for post- mortem. Later the body been given to the family. "The company which was given contract named U-Flax was doing the job and Vikas Kumar was a temporary employee of that company hence NTPC has no responsibility, still we will help the deceased family getting the proper compensation", said an NTPC employee.
Amidst all this the U-Flex has announced a 50,000 rupees compensation to the family. The Pundarak police (NTPC happens to about 8 kms. away from Barh railway station, better known as in Barh's areas but the premises comes under the umbrella of Pundark police) inspector R.K. Jha has confirmed the death. An FIR has been lodged against the NBCC company on the complain of Shiv Nandan Singh.

2 More Flyover in Patna - 2009-05-25

Tue, 26 May 2009 03:35:46

To reduce the surging traffic pressure on boring road in Patna the state urban development ministry has decided to build a flyover near. The site plan has got the technical clearance. The flyover will cost rupees 111 crores. In the meeting of Planning Authority Board in Patna an initial decision has been taken in on tuesday. The board has not given the green signals to the two more flyovers in the city. The proposed flyover at R-Block will have to wait as its 30 crores budget has to be given to Boring road flyover. The board has took the decision on a need based priority. One more flyover in Kankarbagh will be constructed but the proposal for it will have to resubmitted to the board as it had many technically errors.

31 IAS Officers Transferred - 2009-05-23

Sun, 24 May 2009 04:42:12

After the successful completion of loksabha election the somehow relaxed state govt. has decided to change the portfolios of public servants. On saturday the state govt. released a notification regarding transfer of 31 IAS officers. Moreover 3 IAS officers were given additional charges. The point to underscore is that officers who were occuping secretariate for quite significant time has been sent to far flung areas.
Chief secretary of the Rural development Department, Mr. Anup Mukherjee has been given the portfolio of development commissioner. S.Raghawan who is currently the DC is due to retire on 31st of may this year. Hence, Mr. Mukherjee will take over the charge on 1st june.
Mr.S P keshav who has been in the Deptmenttal Investigation department will now the president of Revenue department. S. Siddhu who has been chief of Social Welfare will now take position of Mr.S.P.Keshav.

Nitish Sweeps Bihar - 2009-05-16

Sun, 17 May 2009 05:40:34

The mantra of development given by Nitish kumar has been corroborated by the people of Bihar as the JD-U-BJP alliance got 33 seats. The Nitish's party alone gets 22 seats, the highest ever. Though somewhat depressed by the NDA performance across nation the JD-U BJP has shown the shine here.

Laloo Loses Patliputra Seat To Ex-Friend - 2009-05-16

Sun, 17 May 2009 05:35:44

The RJD supremo would have never imagined in his wildest dream that his school day friend and one of the most reliable friend of him would beat him embrassely in the LS election. Dr. Ranjan Pd. Yadav has win the Patliputra seats beating Laloo by more than 25 thousand votes. Once an ally of Laloo, better to say, it was Ranjan yadav who helped laloo get the crown for the first time way back in 1990s. The friends continued to enjoy till the Rabri Devi and their brothers hijacked the political skyline of Bihar. Dr. Yadav began to feel disrespected and his voice often been neglected there on. This sows the seed of enmity and parted ways of the two leaders.

Openings For 1300 Nurses In Bihar Hospitals - 2009-05-12

Wed, 13 May 2009 02:04:10

The state govt has given green signals for recruitment of 1300 nurses in state hospitals. In a cabinet meeting on tuesday, decision in this regard has been taken. There has been a significant shortage of Nurses in various hospitals. The three major hospitals namely Anugrah Medical College (Gaya), Nalanda Medical College (Patna) and Govt. Medical College in Bhagalpur will get the service of new nurses.

Patna Engineer Found Dead In Singapore - 2009-05-11

Tue, 12 May 2009 02:01:58

An employee of the USB bank in singapore, Setu Swetank found dead in Singapore under dubious conditions. The 25 years young software engineer who hails from Patna have been working their for more than a year. The family back home in Patna were drastically shocked at the death of the young boy. His father JitendraNath has blamed the Swiss authority and the USB bank management for hiding some facts.
It is known that Swetant were found dead on a beach in Singapore. His family says that Swetant was too afraid of water and he could not go to beach therefore. The family has approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and state govt. too, to have annvestigation into the matter as they simultaneously claiming that their son has been murdered.

Nitish Rocks In NDA Meet In Ludhiyana - 2009-05-10

Mon, 11 May 2009 02:33:35

As the NDA is treading gradually to power as the four phase of election completes, the JD-U brand leader Nitish Kumar come out as the most important allies of the alliance. In every poll prediction and political analysis the Nitish's Party JD-U has got the topped rank among BJP's allies. With the clean image of Nitish Kumar and a host of admiration he's getting for the rapid development work in Bihar has changed the political definition to a significant mark. People are now voting making development as a barometer and this new definition is sure to dust down Laloo & company. On an approximation Nitish's party is going to win 30 plus seats out of 40 in Bihar this time.

EC Officers on A Surprise Visit - 2009-05-10

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:04:24

The Election commission has sent its special team to Bihar to investigate the complaints about the miscrepancies happened during voting in the . The entire political circuit remained surprised as the visit was a tight-lipped affair and even the media were remained unknown. It is well known that the commission received maximum complaints from these six parliamentary constituencies. The six team each having two members has reached the constituencies on friday. The enquiry team comprising senior EC officers, Retd. EC officers and IAS.
The team will file its report to the commission after investigation in a couple of days.
On friday one team of two officers reached Chhapra and called the leaders of political parties who made complaint to the EC about miscrepancies during voting. The six constituencies where the team will go are Maharajganj, Aurangabad, Jehanabad, Saran, Munger and Jamui.

Peaceful Voting Done For 3 seats In Bihar - 2009-05-07

Fri, 08 May 2009 03:01:03

As the voting for the three seats in the state namely Patna Saheb, Patliputra and Nalanda completed 100% peacefully the administration has now rather more confident on its preparation. It is quite significant that at most of the polling booths security were not the big issue and state police force were quite easily managing things. No paramillitary forces, no treading of heavy boots, no gun-tottle commandos and still the polling was so smooth and no news of killings and blood bath. Yes, this is the picture of New Bihar.
PatnaXpress group correspondents S.Amit and Nitin Kumar roams around the city and found that everything was fine. The newly appointed Kadamkuan police station inspector Jaynath Singh were quite relaxed though alert, personally visiting every booths of his areas. Pirbahore Police station Inspector Mr. Hasmi were seem concerned as his P.S. area is quite large geographically and critical too. Polling for Patliputra seat at Vikram, Bihta and Danapur were quite good and minority voters participated in signinificant numbers there. It is well known that Laloo Yadav and once his allies Dr. Ranjan Yadav is against one another from this seat.

Amit Of Bihar Rocks In IPL-2009 - 2009-05-07

Fri, 08 May 2009 02:21:52

No one would imagine in his wildest dream that a simple, ordinary and introvert middle class boy from the naxal affected Rohtas district of Bihar would become the star of the sports tabloid across the world. Amit Kumar, bowler from Shilpa Shetty's Rajasthan Royals team has becoming the center of attention as in the currently running Twenty20 IPL-2009 championship this chap continuously proving himself as "Match-Turner" helping his team treading to win the championship.
On thursday in an important match between Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royals. Amit has taken 4 wicket in just a spell of four over. The bowling was so cunning that even the best of batsman failed to answer and total of only 19 runs could be collected in 4 of his over. He won the "Man of the Match".

CRPF IG Pushkar Singh Arrested In Patna - 2009-05-06

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:47:37

The CBI on wednesday arrested the Inspector-General of Central Reserve Police Force in Patna in connection with his alleged involvement in multi-crore constable recruitment racket. Pushkar Singh among 8 others has been taken into remand for further inquiry. Mukesh Kumar and his wife Swati Bhardwaj from Kankarbagh, Tripurari alias Babloo from K'bagh and Sidhnath Sharma has been arrested earlier. Mukesh has been named as the prime agent who played important role in providing "paid" candidate. He was the interface between the officers and the "paid candidates". Three more persons has been arrested in Delhi.

25 Shocked To Death In Sitamarhi - 2009-05-06

Wed, 06 May 2009 13:25:01

Following the tragic accident on monday in Hazipur in which an ambassdor car along with total 7 passenger burnt to ashes, Tuesday remarked with another heartbreaking tragedy as 25 people burnt alive as a moving bus dashed into a electricity pole following which the entire bus come into the effect of high tension current as the wire come down over it.
The accident took place near Sikanpur village under Nanpur police station in Sitamarhi some 200 kms from Patna. According to eye witness the accident took place due to "poor driving" otherwise everything was fine. "It happens around 1pm in daytime and there is no dearth of vision", said driver of another bus who was coming behind the ill fated bus.

CBI Found Finagle In CRPF Recruitment - 2009-05-05

Wed, 06 May 2009 03:55:46

The Central Bureau of Investigation team has raided at 20 place across five states on tuesday. The raid was somewhat surprising to the height that officers in the KadamKuan Police station in Patna could not understan what's going on as both the police station and CRPF office happens to be neighbor next door placed in the premises of Moinul-Haq-Stadium in RajendraNagar.
The office and resident of IG (CRPF), Mr. Pushkar singh were raided and as per CRPF disclosure significant amount of cash (in crores) has been recovered from the officer residence in Chitragupta Nagar in Patna. While the cash were counted sleuths found many important documents related to appointment of constables in the CRPF. The CBI sleauth come to surprise as there were documents recovered endorses the involvement of Mr. Singh in one of the biggest racket ever in the organisation.

Jharkhand Girl Topped Civil Service Exam - 2009-05-04

Tue, 05 May 2009 05:14:55

Subhra Saxena becomes the proud overnight for the state of Bihar & Jharkhand. Subhra has topped the Civil Services exam by UPSC this year as result were published on monday. The most intriguing fact is that first three rank were all taken by woman candidate as Sharandip Kaur and Kiran Kaushal has ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively. The 30 year old Subhra Saxena has her 2nd attempt this time. She is an engineering graduate from IIT roorkee.
There has been a spark of celebration mood in the academic circuit of Bihar and Jharkhand as the news flashes in on monday. Santosh Kumar of Bhagalpur, Pawan of Munger and Keshav of Darbhanga has got success this year. A total of 364 seats were for General Categories candidate while 236 from OBC, 130 from SC and 61 seats were occupied by ST candidates