Bihar Government
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Bill Gates: Few places have made more progress in fighting poverty than Bihar
India | Nov 18, 2019, 01:09 PM ISTBill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, praised Bihar for efforts to fight poverty, disease. Gates said "few places have made more progress in fighting poverty and disease than Bihar."
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Giriraj Singh attacks Nitish govt over rising crime graph
India | Oct 29, 2019, 02:40 PM ISTWithout naming the chief minister, Singh said: "I am from the ruling party, don't know what to say."
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Muzaffarpur shelter home case: SC allows 8 girls to reunite with families, asks Bihar govt to give assistance
India | Sep 12, 2019, 04:36 PM ISTIt also directed the state government to assess the compensation liable to be paid to such victims under the scheme and submit a report to the court.
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Bihar government bans jeans, T-shirts in Secretariat
India | Aug 29, 2019, 11:56 PM IST"Officials and employees must wear decent, comfortable, simple, sober and light-coloured attire. Choose your dress according to the weather and nature of work," the order read.
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Ganga cleaning: NGT junks Bihar government's plea seeking review of penalty imposed on it
India | Jul 22, 2019, 05:38 PM ISTThe National Green Tribunal has junked a plea to review its order imposing a fine of Rs 25 lakh on the Bihar government for inaction over continued damage to the river Ganga.
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Bihar government initiates proceedings for inter-cadre transfer of IAS officer
India | Jul 18, 2019, 09:48 AM ISTThe court had also directed the Centre to initiate his inter-cadre transfer while expressing bewilderment over the state's reluctance to let of IAS officer Jitendra Gupta, "who in the discharge of his duty took on the transport mafia".
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Bihar govt dismisses 175 cops, suspends 23 for triggering violence over death of ailing policewoman
News | Nov 05, 2018, 07:40 AM ISTThe violence was triggered by the death of Savita Pathak, a woman constable posted at the Police Lines.
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Patna: Government sacks 175 cops, suspends 23 for triggering violence over death of ailing policewoman
India | Nov 05, 2018, 07:40 AM ISTThe violence was triggered by the death of Savita Pathak, a woman constable posted at the Police Lines.
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Bihar govt dismisses 175 police constables, suspends 23 officials for rampage
India | Nov 04, 2018, 11:10 PM ISTMore than 300 police constables had gone on a rampage here on November 2, damaging properties and attacking police officers, after a woman colleague who had reportedly been refused leave died.
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Lynching of ‘kidnappers’: NHRC issues notice to Bihar government; demands factual report
India | Sep 12, 2018, 10:49 AM ISTA "factual report" on the incident, including action taken against the guilty and measures taken to stop recurrence of such incidents, has been called from them within six weeks.
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After Muzaffarpur horror, Bihar cancels selection of 50 NGOs for running shelter homes
India | Aug 21, 2018, 01:40 PM ISTSexual abuse varying in forms and degrees was prevalent in almost all Bihar shelter homes, the 100-page TISS report had stated.
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Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case: Bihar govt suspends 14 officials on account of 'dereliction of duty'
India | Aug 05, 2018, 09:52 PM ISTAll the officials have been suspended with immediate effect and attached to the offices of the divisional commissioners concerned.
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Bihar govt approves proposal for reducing quantum of sentence for violating anti-liquor law
India | Jul 12, 2018, 05:43 PM ISTThe ban on sale and consumption of liquor was enforced in Bihar by the Nitish Kumar government in April, 2016.
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Bihar: After liquor ban, government plans to prohibit 'khaini' too
Politics | Jun 09, 2018, 02:18 PM ISTAccording to reports, the Bihar government has written a letter to the Centre requesting it to notify khaini as a food product by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
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Bizarre! Bihar govt asks school teachers to keep a watch on people defecating in open
India | Nov 23, 2017, 06:11 AM ISTIn a letter to CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar Secondary School Teachers Association's general secretary Shatrughan Prasad Singh said it is ‘disrespectful and exploitative’.
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Bihar govt not to deposit or transact with banks not giving loans: Sushil Modi
National | Nov 04, 2017, 10:45 PM ISTSushil Modi said that by the end of December, the state government will fix the parameters in order to prepare the "ranking and grading" of the banks.
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Bhagalpur canal breach: Red-faced, Bihar government orders probe
India | Sep 20, 2017, 08:35 PM ISTChief Minister Nitish Kumar was scheduled to inaugurate today the Rs 389.31-crore Bateshwarsthan Ganga Pump Canal Project, aimed at providing irrigation facilities in the state and neighbouring Jharkhand.
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Bihar: Part of Rs 389 cr dam collapses hours before inauguration
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Trouble for Lalu’s son Tej Pratap as Nitish govt initiates probe into Rs 90-lakh ‘soil scam’
National | Aug 01, 2017, 07:08 AM ISTRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav is likely to face trouble as the newly formed JD(U)-NDA government, led by Nitish Kumar, has initiated an inquiry into the Rs 90 lakh soil scam
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‘Na na karte pyar…’: Akhilesh Yadav takes dig on Nitish Kumar’s alliance with BJP
National | Jul 27, 2017, 10:22 AM ISTFormer Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said that the former could not resist separation from his former ally – the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)