According to the government’s direction, a district magistrate has to preside over four meetings of the committee every month and ensure implementation of sundry recommendations of the committee. File photo of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The district-level committee intends […]
PATNA: The Katihar police arrested a eunuch from Bhagalpur district late Monday evening on the charges of alleged rape and subsequent murder of a Dalit woman from Kodha police station area of the district last week. The body of 40-year-old […]
Ahead of Chhath Puja Mahaparv in Bihar, Madhepura District Magistrate (DM) in an order issued to local police and administration had warned against attempts by ‘mischievous elements of Muslim community’ which may cause communal tension during the Chhath Puja celebrations. […]
Women make up more than one-third of India’s agricultural workforce, but only about 13% of farmland is actually owned by them. In many parts of Bihar, as indeed in most of India, a Dalit owning land is seen as an […]
It has been a problem for years and continue to remain so, with Dalit colonies allotted minimal lands and panchayats devoid of public graveyards. The rain began unexpectedly one mid-afternoon in September. Girija, sitting outside her cemented little house in […]
Chhath Puja celebrated in Bihar with fervour by Hindus is also much anticipated by those from the Muslim community who are engaged in making earthen chulhas (stoves) for the festival. According to tradition, devotees prepare prasad and offerings for Chhath […]
PATNA: A youth was killed after he was hit by an SUV and subsequently assaulted by four persons travelling in the car near Athmalgola in Patna rural late on Friday, triggering protests by the relatives of the deceased and local […]
The case was lodged after an order was passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate Surya Kant Tiwari two months ago on a petition filed by local advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha. MUZAFFARPUR: An FIR was lodged here on Thursday against nearly 50 […]
“What is disturbing is that 42 of 123 families that were provided job cards under MGNREG Act, got work only on 15 days in a year, on average,” said a district official associated with the survey of AES-affected families. Patna: […]
The girl said as quoted by her uncle, “Wo Ganda kaam karta hai.” The child’s mother found bite marks in her private parts. A village in Begusarai, Uttar Pradesh is on tenterhooks as the news of a Dalit girl being […]
