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Free IIT coaching classes for students in Maoist hit villages

Bihar Police have roped in IIT students to provide free coaching to students in Maoist-affected villages to wean them away from rebels, a police official said on Monday. [...More]

MNREGA works to be extended to private land: Minister

In order to boost income of the rural people, Bihar government has proposed to extend work under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) on private lands too, [...More]

Nitish Kumar's 'do or die' commitment to increase power supply

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he has a "do or die" commitment towards increasing power supply in the state . [...More]

Nitish shocked over poor condition of river Ganga

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he felt like crying seeing the sorry condition of the holy river Ganga, but expressed happiness that the state government [...More]

Bihar using Ganga for developing tourism potential

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he felt like crying seeing the sorry condition of the holy river Ganga, but expressed happiness [...More]

Nitish demands to include Nalanda University in UNESCO list

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday demanded that the ruins of the state's ancient Nalanda university be included in UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. [...More]

Sparrow to become the state bird in Bihar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced that sparrow would be declared state bird to save the endangered species. [...More]

Patna, Bhagalpur record season's lowest temperature at 1.1 degrees Celsius

Normal life was affected in Bihar on Wednesday as it remained in the grip of intense cold wave conditions. Patna and Bhagalpur recorded the season's lowest temperature at 1.1 degrees Celsius, [...More]

Urban local bodies in Bihar empowered to collect taxes on its own

Bihar government today approved a proposal to clear decks for the urban local bodies to collect taxes within its jurisdiction on its own to raise revenue. [...More]

Grant special status to Bihar: Nitish urges PM

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that with per capita income being one third of the country and low developmental indices in all core sectors, [...More]

Govt may consider change in primary school timing

The state government may consider changing the existing timing of primary schools.The existing timing is from 9am to 4pm on weekdays and 9am to 1.30pm on Saturdays. [...More]

3493 posts of college teachers vacant in Bihar

The state government on Friday admitted that altogether 3,493 posts of teachers in 250 constituent colleges of Bihar are lying vacant. [...More]

Tokyo varsity to select Super 30 student

Highly impressed by Anand Kumar's innovative Super 30 programme, which has helped many a student from underprivileged sections of the society to make it to the prestigious IITs, [...More]

Bihar to revive Gandhian schools

Bihar has begun a move to revive 391 Buniyadi Vidyalayas (also known as basic schools) that were built in accordance with Mahatma Gandhi's concept [...More]

Cabinet to discuss setting of second central varsity in Bihar

The Union Cabinet on Thursday would take up matter of setting up of a second Central university at Motihari in Bihar. This would mark the end of more than three-year-long tussle between HRD minister Kapil Sibal and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. [...More]

Central University at Motihari in Bihar, says govt

Government on Friday said it decided to set up a Central University at Motihari after efforts to upgrade the status of Patna University failed. [...More]

Bihar Govt mulls opening secondary school in each panchayat

The Bihar government is mulling setting up one secondary school in each gram panchayat entailing a cost of Rs 5,500 crore, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said. [...More]

Seats in Patna University colleges vacant even after 3rd cutoff list

Even as first-year classes of degree courses commenced in most of the colleges under Patna University on Tuesday, all seats in undergraduate courses [...More]

Patna: Freshers hailed at St Xavier's College

Freshers and their parents were welcomed with great warmth at the St. Xavier's College here on Monday. Speaking on the first day of the four-day "Freshers welcome and orientation programme", [...More]

Patna University entrance test a 'gift' to students with low marks

It was a dream come true for some of the students who, despite scoring low marks in their class XII examinations, secured admission to three-year degree courses at Patna Science College, [...More]

Fate of 97 Magadh University affiliated colleges uncertain

With the Magadh University (MU) Syndicate putting on hold the proposal to grant/extend affiliation to colleges of questionable nature, [...More]

Free short-term course for school dropouts soon

There is some good news for the school dropouts after class VIII, who are in the age group of 18-25 years. [...More]

Bihar government approves guideline for coaching to minorities

Bihar government on Tuesday approved the "Guideline 2012" to provide coaching to the minorities' students to enable them to prepare them for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducted exams, [...More]

Bihar TET results: 1.47 lakh candidates declared successful

Altogther 1.47 lakh candidates were on Monday declared as successful in the Bihar Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) out of 26.79 lakh candidates [...More]

Nitish magic eludes higher education in Bihar

Even as the Nitish government has been able to bring in considerable improvement in the working of different sectors in the state, higher education [...More]

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