Articles for Bihar Patna

Bihar reservation hike: State government moves SC against Patna HC decision to ‘set aside’ reservation hike
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bihar reservation hike: State government moves SC against Patna HC decision to ‘set aside’ reservation hike

The Hindu  

The Bihar government moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday, challenging the Patna High Court’s directive to ‘set aside’ the increase in the State’s reservation for disadvantaged communities, from the existing 50% to 65%. “Yes, the State government has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court today and our advocate Ayush Anand too has filed a caveat before the court to …

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RSS-BJP veteran Nand Kishore Yadav to be new Speaker of Bihar Assembly
10 months, 1 week ago

RSS-BJP veteran Nand Kishore Yadav to be new Speaker of Bihar Assembly

The Hindu  

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nand Kishore Yadav is all set to become the new Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Mr. Yadav filed his nomination papers at the Assembly Secretariat on Tuesday in the presence of Chief Minister and JD leader Nitish Kumar and two Deputy Chief Ministers of the BJP – Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha. Seasoned …

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Sinha Library turns 100, commemorative special cover unveiled in Patna
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sinha Library turns 100, commemorative special cover unveiled in Patna

Hindustan Times  

Patna, Feb 9 Patna's famed Sinha Library, home to a rich collection of about 1.8 lakh books including some of the rare volumes from India and abroad, turned 100 on Friday. HT Image A commemorative special cover marking the centenary of the landmark institution was unveiled by Chief Post Master General of Bihar Circle, Anil Kumar at a function held …

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Patna High Court Monthly Digest - November 2023
1 year ago

Patna High Court Monthly Digest - November 2023

Live Law  

Nominal Index M/s Cohesive Infrastructure Developers Pvt. Bihar Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Appellate Authority's Dismissal of Appeal Without Reasoning Indicates Abdication of Powers: Patna High Court Case Title: M/s S K Construction and Company vs vs The State of Bihar and Ors LL Citation: 2023 Livelaw 129 The Patna High Court has ruled that the Appellate Authority, …

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Silicon Valley AI Major Becomes First US IT Firm To Open Office In Bihar: All You Need To Know
1 year, 1 month ago

Silicon Valley AI Major Becomes First US IT Firm To Open Office In Bihar: All You Need To Know

ABP News  

In a significant development, a prominent Artificial Intelligence company hailing from Silicon Valley has inaugurated its first office in the Indian state of Bihar, marking the initial foray of a US-based IT firm into the region. The organisation, which already boasts a workforce of approximately 4,000 employees across India, primarily stationed in Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, is venturing into the …

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Patna HC Directs Bihar Courts To Ensure Compliance With Supreme Court's 'Arnesh Kumar Guidelines' On Arrest
1 year, 3 months ago

Patna HC Directs Bihar Courts To Ensure Compliance With Supreme Court's 'Arnesh Kumar Guidelines' On Arrest

Live Law  

The Patna High Court recently issued a circular for all the courts under its territorial jurisdiction of this Court directing them to follow the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court in the 2014 Arnesh Kumar Judgment on arrests. Accordingly, the Patna High Court has issued the following guidelines: 11.1 All the State Governments to instruct its police officers not to …

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Congress party’s DNA is in Bihar, says Rahul Gandhi after arriving in Patna for Opposition meet
1 year, 6 months ago

Congress party’s DNA is in Bihar, says Rahul Gandhi after arriving in Patna for Opposition meet

The Hindu  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party and accused the BJP leaders of spreading hatred and violence in the country. During his speech, Mr. Gandhi made a special reference to the State by saying that Congress party’s DNA is in Bihar. Talking about the victory in Karnataka Assembly polls, Mr. Gandhi announced that in upcoming Assembly polls …

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Land-for-jobs scam: CBI raids 9 locations in Bihar, Delhi linked to RJD leaders
1 year, 7 months ago

Land-for-jobs scam: CBI raids 9 locations in Bihar, Delhi linked to RJD leaders

Deccan Chronicle  

Patna: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday conducted searches at nine locations in Bihar's Patna and Arrah linked to Rashtriya Janata Dal leaders- MLA Kiran Devi and former MLA Arun Yadav in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam. The agency further stated that investigation has revealed that Lalu Prasad Yadav during the period 2007-08, when he was Minister of …

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Bihar caste survey: Patna HC rejects state govt’s application for early hearing
1 year, 7 months ago

Bihar caste survey: Patna HC rejects state govt’s application for early hearing

Hindustan Times  

The Patna high court on Tuesday rejected the Bihar government interlocutory application for an early hearing in the case pertaining to the caste survey. The HC had on May 4, while hearing the petition challenging caste survey in the state, had stayed the exercise with immediate effect in its interim order and fixed July 3 as the next date of …

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Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion Policy Does Encourage Manufacturing Industries But No Bar On Establishment Of Other Industries: Patna High Court
1 year, 8 months ago

Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion Policy Does Encourage Manufacturing Industries But No Bar On Establishment Of Other Industries: Patna High Court

Live Law  

The Patna High Court recently allowed a writ petition of M/S Kaveri Liquors Ltd. for change of nature of its industry to a 'hotel industry' on the land allotted by Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority. If the investments in a particular field are being allowed, it does not mean that the other industries are barred from being established" Background The …

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In dry Bihar, more women now get into illegal liquor delivery
1 year, 10 months ago

In dry Bihar, more women now get into illegal liquor delivery

The Hindu  

Divya Kumari is a regular college-going 23-year-old, who spends a lot of her life on her new iPhone 14. Across ‘dry’ Bihar’s 38 districts, 15,831 women, from April 2016— when prohibition was introduced— to December 2022, have been arrested on charges of violating the prohibition law of the State. On the ‘job’ Women bootleggers have distinct advantages in a job …

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Patna High Court Shuts 49 Brick Kilns Over Failure To Shift To 'Cleaner Technology'
1 year, 10 months ago

Patna High Court Shuts 49 Brick Kilns Over Failure To Shift To 'Cleaner Technology'

Live Law  

The Patna High Court on Saturday directed the government to close 49 brick kilns that failed to shift to cleaner technology and produce fly ash bricks, despite a cut-off date set by the Bihar State Pollution Control Board.The Board had issued a Notification in December 2018 by which all brick kilns were asked to switch to cleaner technology by September …

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Polling Underway For 68 Wards Of Bihar Municipal Corporation In 23 Districts
1 year, 11 months ago

Polling Underway For 68 Wards Of Bihar Municipal Corporation In 23 Districts

ABP News  

The polling for the 68 wards of the Bihar urban local body is underway amid tight security and strict monitoring. Voting is being done across 17 municipal corporations including Patna, 2 Municipal Councils, and 49 Nagar Panchayats in a total of 68 cities of 23 districts of Bihar. As many as 61,94,826 electors are eligible to exercise their franchise in …

Bihar Sec Polling Patna Municipal 23 Districts
Patna terror module: Accused Mohammed Tauseef associated with PFI since 2014, says family
2 years, 5 months ago

Patna terror module: Accused Mohammed Tauseef associated with PFI since 2014, says family

India Today  

Mohammed Tauseef, one of the accused in the Patna terror module case, has been associated with the Popular Front of India since 2014, according to his family. This comes days after Bihar Police busted a terrorist module that was plotting to target PM Narendra Modi and arrested two suspected terrorists. Meanwhile, Bihar BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal on Wednesday claimed that …

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Patna: PMCH metro station to be underground; two gates will be in campus
2 years, 8 months ago

Patna: PMCH metro station to be underground; two gates will be in campus

India Today  

Patna Metro's planned station at PMCH, originally proposed to be built on an elevated structure, will now be constructed underground and two gates for exit or entry would be located inside the campus of the institution which is undergoing a major infrastructure revamp, officials said on Sunday. The Patna Medical College and Hospital, a distinguished medical institution of Patna, will …

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Starved of funds, trust set up to promote Gandhian thought is dying
2 years, 10 months ago

Starved of funds, trust set up to promote Gandhian thought is dying

Hindustan Times  

Even as India marks the Martyrs’ Day on January 30, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Bihar State Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Patna, a trust founded to promote Gandhian thoughts, is gasping for life for want of funds, according to people associated with it. Bihar State Gandhi Smarak Nidhi is a part of the National Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, a public …

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Who is Khan Sir, why he is in news amidst RRB, NTPC exam protests in Bihar?
2 years, 10 months ago

Who is Khan Sir, why he is in news amidst RRB, NTPC exam protests in Bihar?

India TV News  

Who is Khan Sir/Bihar News: Bihar bandh called on Friday by student bodies, and supported by all parties in the opposition and some in the ruling dispensation, against alleged irregularities in the Railway Recruitment Board's Non-Technical Popular Categories examination process evoked a mixed response. An FIR has been registered against 16 teachers of several coaching institutes including Youtuber Khan Sir, …

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Patna accounts for 43% new Covid cases in Bihar
2 years, 11 months ago

Patna accounts for 43% new Covid cases in Bihar

Hindustan Times  

Patna accounted for 1,956 new Covid-19 cases in Bihar, which was over 43% of the total 4,526 cases reported in the state on Saturday, and the state capital’s test positivity rate jumped from 12.26% to over 20% in the last three days, said officials in the state health department. The test positivity rate of Muzaffarpur, which reported 263 new cases …

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Sushant Singh Rajput's family's 5 members killed in Bihar road accident
3 years, 1 month ago

Sushant Singh Rajput's family's 5 members killed in Bihar road accident

India TV News  

Six persons, including five distant relatives of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, were killed when their SUV collided with a truck in Bihar's Lakhisarai district on Tuesday morning, police said. According to the police, the victims, including two women, were returning from Patna to Jamui after the cremation of Haryana Additional Director General of Police O.P. The victims have …

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Bihar politics: Chirag Paswan meets Tejashwi Yadav in Patna
3 years, 3 months ago

Bihar politics: Chirag Paswan meets Tejashwi Yadav in Patna

India TV News  

Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan on Wednesday met Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav in Patna. Chirag met Tejashwi to invite him for an event on September 12 to mark the first death anniversary of his father and former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. Chirag Paswan has also called Tejashwi Yadav his 'younger brother' on several occasions. Notably, RJD …

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COVID- "Policy Of 'Testing, Tracking And Treatment' Needs To Be Implemented In Bihar": Patna High Court
3 years, 4 months ago

COVID- "Policy Of 'Testing, Tracking And Treatment' Needs To Be Implemented In Bihar": Patna High Court

Live Law  

Emphasizing that the policy of "Testing, Tracking, and Treatment" needs to be implemented in Bihar with greater vigor, the Patna High Court on Tuesday observed that significant role played by the Media can help to prevent the pain, suffering, and anguish of people during the anticipated 3rd wave of Covid-19.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S. Kumar …

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COVID Death Data: Verify Facts Before Placing Them In Court, Else It Would Amount To Filing Of False Affidavit: Patna HC To Govt
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID Death Data: Verify Facts Before Placing Them In Court, Else It Would Amount To Filing Of False Affidavit: Patna HC To Govt

Live Law  

Observing that in Buxar District of Bihar, if in 10 days only in one crematorium, 789 persons were cremated, then what would be the position in the entire District, the Patna High Court on Monday directed the State Government, "All facts first must be verified from all sources and then only placed before us, else it will amount to filing …

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Post-EC guidelines, BJP gears up for Bihar polls
4 years, 4 months ago

Post-EC guidelines, BJP gears up for Bihar polls

The Hindu  

The BJP will be plunging into full-scale political action, especially in Bihar, as the Election Commission unveiled its broad guidelines for the conduct of polls on Friday, with national president J.P. Nadda scheduled to visit Patna on August 28. “National general secretary in charge of the State, Bhupendra Yadav, will be in Patna on August 22, former Maharashtra Chief Minister …

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Bihar police officer probing Sushant case quarantined, hand stamped in Mumbai
4 years, 4 months ago

Bihar police officer probing Sushant case quarantined, hand stamped in Mumbai

The Hindu  

Patna City SP Vinay Tiwari was quarantined by the BMC with his hand stamped indicating the isolation period till August 15 after he reached Mumbai to supervise the probe being conducted by the Bihar Police into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, police said on August 3. Bihar Director General of Police Gupteshwar Pandey on August 2 alleged that …

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