PATNA: The state government has decided to take concrete steps to boost tourism on an unprecedented scale. Special arrangements and packages have been designed to boost tourism, especially in Budhhist and Jain centres. As a step ahead, Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC) is all set to change the face of travelling on Bihar roads. [...]
The seven Central universities in Bihar, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kashmir, Kerala, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu are going to hold a common entrance test for their study programmes. The CUCET is billed as a single window for entry to more than 70 undergraduate and five-year integrated programmes as well as postgraduate and research programmes in the seven [...]
Ranchi, May 6 (PTI) Rejecting Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda’s request to call off his hunger strike, JVM-P chief Babulal Marandi continued his fast-unto-death which entered the sixth day today. A diabetic, the former chief minister began the hunger strike on May 1, demanding that a special Assembly session be convened to pass a bill [...]
INDIA’S Cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a true leader. He led from the front in high-stress conditions to help India beat neighbours Sri Lanka and win the Cricket World Cup for the second time, after a long gap of 28 years. There couldn’t be better endorsement for Dhoni’s outstanding capabilities than from the world’s [...]
The Captain Courageous the world is celebrating went through many twists and turns, having started from a state side that struggled to go beyond the preliminary rounds. From a teammate whose chocolates he had whacked to skippers startled by his calm almost a decade ago, from the gear seller in Calcutta who got the country’s [...]
RANCHI: The Jharkhand government on Sunday said that it would confer an honorary doctorate degree on local boy and Indian cricket captainMahendra Singh Dhoni – who is yet to complete his graduation but who led his team to a fantasticWorld Cup victory in Mumbai. “We will soon initiate the process to awardhonorary doctorate degree to [...]
RANCHI: Thousands of sports lovers took to the streets in Team India Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s home town Ranchi to celebrate the World Cup victory over Sri Lanka. Crackers boomed after Dhoni hit the winning six, as over 2000 people gathered at a ground near Captain M S Dhoni’s residence at Harmu to watch the tense battle [...]
PATNA: After being shorn of all its mineral wealth, Bihar seems to have finally put one over on Jharkhand as reflected in the real estate prices, which have skyrocketed in the state capital in the past two years. In fact, property rates in Patna have, unbelievably, surpassed NCR — Noida, Ghaziabad and even in some [...]
Ranchi, Oct 16 (IANS) Arms like AK-47 and Insas and not goddess Durga idols are worshipped at the Jharkhand Armed Police ground here during Navratri – an auspicious period for the Hindus. There is a myth that idol worship in the ground invited the wrath of Goddess Durga. Kalash Sthapana is done on the first [...]
Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated the assembly unit of Sonalika tractors at Fatuha on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion he said he had laid the foundation stone two-and-a-half years ago and it gives him immense pleasure to inaugurate the unit. It is also an answer to all those who have made it a point [...]
