Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar joining a group of people, holding lighted candles in hands, praying for the "reconstruction" of their state at a function organised in Patna's Srikrishna Memorial Hall on August 17, 2011

Nitish at Bholenath's doorstep

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar offering prayers at a Shiva temple in Patna on August 11, 2011 for the "peace and prosperity" of Bihar.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar planting a sapling on the campus of Government Girls High School, Shastrinagar, Patna to mark Earth Day on August 9, 2011.  

SUCI activists protesting against the anti-people policies of the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar on the streets of Patna on August 5, 2011

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar meeting House of Lord member Karan Bilimoria at the CM secretariat in Patna on August 4, 2011

Big B wows Patna

Film star Amitabh Bachchan giving autographs to his young fans during his visit to Patna on August 3, 2011. Big B was here in connection with promotion of his upcoming film Aarakshan releasing on August 12. During his stay in Patna, he also met Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. It came as a music to Kumar's ears when the "Star of the Millenium" said Patna had changed a lot and in some matters, it is better than other Indian cities! 

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar at a function in Patna on August 3, 2011

Villagers' protest

Villagers protesting against an upcoming asbestos factory at Muzaffarpur in Bihar 

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar meeting visitors at his weekly Junta Durbar at his 1, Anne Marg official residence in Patna on August 1, 2011

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, along with his cabinet colleagues, enjoying the Sufi music presented by Padamshree Hansraj Hans at Rabindra Bhawan in Patna on July 30, 2011

Maoists kill five villagers in Bihar

Maoist rebels attacked a remote village in Bihar late last night and gunned down five tribal villagers.

The victims, all members of the Kaimuranchal Vikas Morcha, had been opposing the Maoist activities in the region.

Police said the heavily-armed rebels raided Banda village in Rohtas district late Saturday night and resorted to indiscriminate firing, killing five tribal villagers on the spot. The victims included a woman.

Bihar's director general of police Neelmani said the police had launched a massive combing operation in the areas to nab the fleeing rebels.

This is the second major Maoist attack in Bihar in the past one month.

Earlier this month, Maoists has attacked a village in Munger district and killed six villagers accusing the latter of being police informers. 

Ghost fear forces girls to flee school in Bihar

Patna: A number of girl students have fled a government school in Bihar due to fear of ghost on the campus.

These girls were enrolled in Kasturba Gandhi Residential School at Barbigha in Sheikhpura district of Bihar.

Girls say the ghosts have been traveling the school building at night and terrorizing the hostel inmates by making weird sounds.

School authorities said ghost fear has impacted the students so much so that eight of the girl students have permanently left the school and got themselves admitted to another school fearing the spirits could harm them.

“Someone recently spread the rumour that the ghosts and spirits stay in this school building and since  then there is a scramble among the students to quit the schools”, the school headmaster Rakesh Kumar told a local Hindi daily Hindustan.

To dispel the fear of ghosts, he added, from students’ mind, he himself stayed for four nights with them in the school building yet this has failed to convince them.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar holding a review meeting with the officials of the Urban Development and Housing at the CM Secretariat at Patna on July 29, 2011

A GOD-FEARING THIEF

This is a classic case of a theft in Bihar.

Witnesses said a thief entered the Goddess Durga temple located in Bengali Akhada locality under Kadamkuan police station of Patna on Thursday evening and offered worship to her, touching his ears. He also lay prostrate before the Goddess for some time keeping his eyes closed right when the priest was present.

After completing his rituals, the thief removed the ear rings, mangal sutras and other precious ornaments gifted by devotees to the Godess and kept all these in his pockets. Before the priest could understand anything, the thief had well fled the place.

In this connection, a case has been lodged with the Kadamkuan police station. The police are conducting raids to recover the looted ornaments. 

Bihar youths faking own kidnappings to get wed soon

Police in Bihar are puzzled by a new trend wherein the youths are faking their own kidnappings in a bid to force the parents search for their brides at the earliest.

At least five such cases have been reported from Kaimur district of Bihar in the past few days even as the state police already battle with checking marriages-at-gun-point or “honeymoon kidnappings”, a term widely used by the police department, which is widely picking up across the state given the growing demands for huge dowry as prevalent in Indian society.  

Investigators say in many cases, the boys left their homes without informing anybody in the family and returned homes with a phantasy telling their parents how they were picked by armed men, dumped in unidentified locations and asked to marry girls in captivity but somehow they fled.

In a recent incident, eighteen-year-old Manoj Pandey from Bhabhua town fled his home after his father Badri Narayan Pandey chastised him for watching vulgar CD at home. Later, his father lodged a case with the local Durgwati police station suspecting he may have been kidnapped.

Soon the police swung into action and recovered the boy from his married sister’s house at Gazipur in neighbouring Utar Pradesh state. During the interrogation, the youth told the police how he fled his home to force his parents get him married soon.

Police said youth’s twin brother was already married and he was now pressurizing his parents for his marriage as well but since he was told by his father to complete his secondary examinations first, he fled his home.

Another youth from Bhabhua, district headquarters of Kaimur, also scripted his similar kidnapping drama to force his parents marry him with the girl he loved.

“Much of our precious time is wastes on solving such fake kidnapping cases but we can’t do anything…these are part of the society”, a senior police official from the Kaimur district Uma Shankar Sudhanshu said.

What, though, has turned out to be the biggest nightmare for the state police is the increasing cases of “honeymoon” in Bihar.

In the Patna district alone, a many as 46 girls and 48 boys, all in the age-group of 12 to 17, have gone missing in the past six months and the police believe these all cases are apparently related to love marriage.

“They eloped with their lovers for marriages but their parents in a bid to save their social prestige lodged a case of kidnapping”, says Patna City’s superintendent of police Shivdeep Lande.

In the past six months this year, a total of 565 kidnapping cases have been reported with the police but the police theory is that majority of these case could have been related to “kidnapping for marriage”.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar inspecting a photo exhibition with regard to Right to Information Act organised at Sri Krishna Memorial Hall in Patna on July 28, 2011

I & PRD secretary, Bihar Rajesh Bhushan with Chairman of Bihar Film Society RN Das addressing the participant of 13th film appreciation workshop closing ceremony at Soochna Bhawan on July 28, 2011

PIL for CBI probe into alleged Bihar land scam filed

A PIL was filed in the Patna High Court today seeking for a CBI probe into alleged irregularities committed by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority in the allotment of industrial lands to the close relatives of the NDA government ministers, lawmakers and bureaucrats. The PIL has been filed by Satish Paswan, a former RJD legislator. The PIL is likely to come up for hearing tomorrow. 

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar giving away prizes to the public information officers for their commendable works at a function held at Sri Krishna Memorial Hall in Patna on July 28, 2011s

criminals loot children's pocket money

Madhulata / Patna

Forgetting the basic ethics, criminals in Bihar waylaid a school bus last evening and looted pocket money of little children totaling around a few hundred while they were on way to a sightseeing tour.

The incident occurred in the south Bihar’s Gaya district Saturday evening when the children of a government-run Jawahar Navodaya school aboard a bus were on way to neighbouring a sightseeing tour to neighbouring Rajgir, a historic place known for its scenic beauty.

Police said the robbers blocked the movement of the bus by putting boulders and tree trunks in the middle of the road at a deserted place and then asked the children to hand over their purse which they did instantly.

The miscreants also robbed the teachers accompanying the children in the bus and vanished into surrounding hills after snatching their cell phones and other valuables.

“They brandished guns before the little children and looted the pocket money of the children totaling around a few hundred”, the victim teachers told the local Nimchak-Bathani police under which jurisdiction the place of occurrence falls soon after the incident took place. 

The teachers said the criminals showed no mercy on the children and robbed them off before fleeing the scene under the cover the darkness.

“The criminals targeted the school bus and looted everyone sitting inside. We are conducting raids to arrest the criminals”, the deputy superintendent of police Saryu Sharma told the media. 

This is the second such incident in Bihar in the past few weeks.

A few months back, the criminals had again targeted the bus carrying children of another Jawahar Navodaya school in eastern Bihar’s Munger district and looted their pocket money in similar way.

Here too, the children were returning from a sight-seeing tour from Chatra in neighbouring Jharkhand state when the robbers waylaid their bus in between Bariarpur and Haveli-Kharagpur in Maoist-hit Munger district and robbed off the children.
 

Four patients die in Bihar as problems occur in Oxygen supply line

Madhulata

At least, four patients died when the supply of Oxygen on which they were surviving was suddenly got disrupted due to some technical problems at a government hospital in Bihar today.

The shocking incident occurred at Sri Krishna Memorial College and Hospital located in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar.

Reports said some critically-suffering patients at the hospital had been put on life supporting system with oxygen pipes attached to their nose when some problem occurred in the supply line and its supply got disrupted for about an hour, resulting in death of at least four patients.

The Chief Medical Officer at the hospital GK Thakur said the problem occurred in the oxygen supply line for some time but it was rectified very soon.

Initially, he denied any death from the disruption in oxygen supply line but pressed further, he later got aggressive saying, “Patients are bound to die at the hospital”.

He also denied negligence on the part of the hospital staffs but said he had ordered a probe into the matter.

Last month, at least 60 children admitted at two government hospitals in the same district had died due to some mysterious disease. All the victim children were from the families living below poverty line and hence their death did not make any big headline.

The disease is yet to be identified although more than a dozen teams of medical experts have visited the spot, collected blood samples and examined it.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, has, so far, not thought it fit to visit the place and take stock of the situation even as the children continue to die.

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