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  Bihar Government approves 50 per cent quota in judicial services

  India | December 28, 2016 8:50 IST

  The Bihar government on Tuesday has green-signalled implementation of 50 per cent reservation in both subordinate and superior judicial services in the state. This means that 50 per cent quota would be implemented in appointment

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  Gaya road rage: SC to hear Bihar govt’s plea challenging bail to Rocky Yadav

  India | October 24, 2016 19:46 IST

  The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea by the Bihar government challenging a Patna High Court order granting bail to Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav, son of a suspended JD(U) MLC.

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  Rebuked by Supreme Court, Bihar govt admits its ‘failure’ in opposing Shahabuddin’s bail

  India | September 29, 2016 7:31 IST

  the Nitish Kumar government on Wednesday admitted a “shortfall” in dealing with the bail pleas of the RJD strongman as that it was “handicapped”.

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  Bihar govt makes U-turn on Gopalganj tragedy, says hooch consumption behind deaths; suspended 25 cops

  India | August 19, 2016 9:13 IST

  The Bihar government has made a U-turn with Gopalganj DM Rahul Kumar accepting it was illicit liquor that killed 16 people here on Tuesday night.

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  ‘Anti-liquor law not right, should be reconsidered’: RJD, Nitish at loggerheads over Bihar’s liquor ban

  Politics | August 11, 2016 13:11 IST

  Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a major alliance partner in the Nitish Kumar led Bihar government, has questioned the Bihar Chief Minister’s decision to impose a complete ban on the sale and consumption of liquor in the state.

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  Bihar govt, Board form committees to probe irregularities in results

  India | June 05, 2016 23:50 IST

  Patna: Bihar government and Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) today constituted two separate committees to probe the alleged irregularities in evaluation of marks in this year's 10+2 examination. The education department has formed a three-member

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  Bihar govt employees get 6% Dearness Allowance hike

  India | April 29, 2016 13:29 IST

  Bihar government today hiked the Dearness Allowance (DA) of its employees and pensioners by 6 per cent to 125 per cent with retrospective effect from January 1, 2016.

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  Bihar government takes George Fernandes off VVIP security list

  Politics | April 26, 2016 18:13 IST

  The Z-category security coverage of veteran socialist leader George Fernandes has been withdrawn by the Bihar government in the latest exercise to review security of VVIPs.

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  Bihar govt to provide piped drinking water to all households in five years

  India | April 01, 2016 17:35 IST

  Patna: Bihar government will provide piped drinking water to all households in the state in the next five years under the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's ambitious 'Saat Nischay' (Seven Resolves), a minister said today. Replying

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  Nitish government announces job reservations for third gender in Bihar

  Politics | March 30, 2016 15:21 IST

  In what will count as a big push for providing equal rights to eunuchs and transgenders and bring them into the mainstream, the Bihar government on Wednesday announced extending reservation in jobs to the third gender and also set up a welfare board

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  Bihar ministers in soup over 'courtesy meet' with Shahabuddin in jail

  Politics | March 08, 2016 22:09 IST

  New Delhi: The Nitish Kumar government on Tuesday came under fire from the opposition BJP when its ministers were caught on camera dining with former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Mohammed Shahabuddin in a Siwan

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  Indira Gandhi's rule was worse than British, says Bihar govt website

  Politics | January 11, 2016 19:57 IST

  Patna: An article about former prime minister Indira Gandhi's rule, published on the official website of Bihar government, has left the Congress red-faced after it described her reign worst than British in India.The write-up, while

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  'Nitish should act against crime': RJD, JDU spar over law and order

  Politics | December 31, 2015 19:34 IST

  Patna: Close on the heels of RJD chief Lalu Prasad's apparent snub to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, senior party leader Raghubansh Prasad Singh today

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  Bihar govt names college, science city after APJ Abdul Kalam

  India | July 30, 2015 14:46 IST

  Patna: Paying rich tributes to 'People's President' APJ Abdul Kalam on the occasion of his last rites, the Bihar government today named Agriculture College at Kishanganj and proposed the science city after him.  The decision was taken by the state

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  Manjhi is story of landless labour who 'really' moved mountain

  Bollywood | July 15, 2015 23:44 IST

  In general terms, moving a mountain is often used as a hyperbole but the story of this man would belittle every exaggeration that exists in the textbooks.'Manjhi-The Mountain Man' is the story of Dashrath Manjhi,

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  Bihar places five districts on alert after Nepal landslide

  India | May 24, 2015 22:55 IST

  Patna:  The Bihar government today sounded flood alert in five districts after a massive landslide, triggered by recent earthquakes, blocked the Kali Gandaki river at Benibazar in Myagdi district of Nepal, leading to accumulation of

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  Sushil Modi dares Bihar govt to lodge case against him

  Politics | May 14, 2015 19:00 IST

  Patna: A day after Bihar government rubbished his charge of irregularities in transformers' purchase and threatened to take lawful action against him, former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today reiterated his demand for a

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  BJP criticizes Bihar govt over shortage of medicines in hospitals

  Politics | March 18, 2015 14:56 IST

  Patna: Opposition BJP today criticised the Bihar government over “non-availability” of basic medicines in government hospitals and medical colleges due to which the number of patients visiting these hospitals has come down. Leader of Opposition

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  Samples taken from two kids sent to Lucknow for polio tests

  India | February 24, 2015 17:37 IST

  Patna: Bihar government has sent samples taken from two children to Lucknow for laboratory tests amid suspicion of poliomyelitis, better known as polio, a viral disease that induces crippling paralysis among children.  Health department officials

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  Manjhi enacts major police reshuffle in Bihar

  Politics | January 16, 2015 6:53 IST

  Patna: Bihar government late night effected a major reshuffle in police department, transferring over two dozen officers, including Superintendent of Police rank IPS of over a dozen districts, and placing many officials of SC/ST at