For the first time in Bihar's history, giant posters of Nitish Kumar surfaced this Chhath Puja all around in the capital city.

Nalanda, famous as ancient seat of learning, is located about 88 km southeast of Patna, founded in the 5th century AD. It marks the site of the once famous Buddhist university also known as the Nalanda University.

BJP veteran Ravi Shankar Prasad has demanded the resignation of Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar for his failure to tighten security vaults ahead of rally despite sufficient intelligence input.

Maner Sharif is a small town located 25 kilometers (16 mi) west of Patna on NH 30, in Bihar state, India. Maner Sharif shelters two very popular Muslim tombs: One of the tomb is of Sufi saint Makhdoom Yahya Maneri, known as the Bari Dargah (the great shrine). The other one is of Makhdum Shah Daulat, popularly called Chhoti Dargah (the small shrine).

Onion prices have just breached the century mark! And doing rounds around INR 100/Kg. It is more than surprise that prices of onion, mostly widely consumed vegetable, has increased four times over the last one year! And this has happened in a country which is the largest producer of onion in the world.

Sir Syed Ahmed, born on 17th October, 1817, became a legend in his lifetime. He was a versatile genius in true sense of the word. He championed the cause of modern education at a time when all the Indians in general and Indian Muslims in particular considered it a sin to get modern education through English language.

President Pranab Mukherjee has cut short his Bihar visit by a day, much to the relief of BJP leaders who were worried that the tour would scuttle Narendra Modi’s “Hunkar (roar) Rally” in Patna on October 27.

About five thousand health conscious people take morning stroll every day at Sanjay Gandhi Jaiwik Uddyan in Patna. They inhale volume of oxygen to keep them fine and fit everyday. The carbondioxide released by them is livestock for survival of the plants so basically it is a nice unseen exchange program for keeping both humans and plants healthy and strong.

People of Bihar and the rest of the Country have been made to believe that ‘Jungle Raj’ no more prevails in Bihar as the law and order situation has improved considerably. On contrary, Bihar under present regime has faltered on almost each parameter that judges the law and order situation in a region.

The business of business is business, said Milton Friedman, the celebrated American free market economist. Why then should businessmen discuss such distinctly ‘non-business’ themes such as secularism?

अक्सर  दरिन्दिगी और जुर्म के मामले सामने आ रहे हैं जिसे सुन और देख कर मन विचलित हो उठता है और हमें अपने बच्चों व बच्चियों के भविष्य की चिन्ता सताने लगती है। चिन्ता होती है कि क्या यही बदलते भारत की तस्वीर है। चिन्ता होती है कि अगर भारत का जी.डी.पी. ग्रोथ रेट नीचे गिर सकता है तो जुर्म और बलात्कार के ग्रोथ रेट नीचे क्यों नहीं गिरते? चिन्ता होती है कि हमारे समाज को क्या हो गया है?

For three days – June 15-17 – the media slept over the Uttarakhand disaster. At best, a couple of channels reported a flood and nothing more. It wasn’t until June 18 that they got down to realising the seriousness of the disaster and their total neglect of the state. They were still busy with the political bout of BJP-JDU break up.