A group of foreigners performs Pitripaksh rituals at Gaya’s Dev Ghat on Friday Gaya: In a display of faith transcending the faultlines of war, six Russian and two Ukrainian devotees joined fellow foreigners to perform “pind daan” and “tarpan” at Dev Ghat along the Falgu river in Gaya on Friday morning, the seventh day of…
Patna Medical College and Hospital Patna: Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) will establish an independent Spine Sub-Speciality Unit under its department of orthopaedics to provide specialised treatment for patients with complex spinal disorders. Doctors said the advanced unit is expected to become functional by the end of this month and will focus on complicated…
Patna: A case has been registered against the head teacher of a govt school in Banka district following an allegation of sexual harassment involving a Class XI student.The student’s mother approached a police station on Thursday evening and submitted a written complaint seeking action against the head teacher Vikas Kumar. Police said they have registered…
The 500-computer state-of-the-art laboratory at IIT-Patna Patna: IIT-Patna (IIT-P) on Friday unveiled a 500-computer state-of-the-art laboratory, strengthening its digital academic infrastructure. Inaugurated by IIT-P director Amit Patra on Gandhi Jayanti, the facility has been set up inside the institute’s Central Library and is equipped with 500 high-performance computers and advanced networking systems.The entire facility was…
(Representative image) Four girls drowned while bathing in a pond located in Bihar’s Bankat village MOTIHARI: Four girls drowned while bathing in a pond in Bihar’s East Champaran district on Friday morning, according to news agency PTI.The incident took place around 9.30 am in Bankat village under Inarwabhar panchayat and Paharpur police station limits.The deceased…
President of the Glaucoma Society of India, Dr Sathyan Parthasarathi (centre), briefs mediapersons in Patna on Thursday. Patna: Ignoring glaucoma or waiting for symptoms could lead to irreversible vision loss, eye specialists warned ahead of the three-day annual convention of the Glaucoma Society of India. They urged people, particularly those above 40, to undergo regular…
PATNA: A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Patna for allegedly misbehaving with and rough-handling members of a women police personnel team during a patrol, police said.The incident took place around 8.30pm on Wednesday near Khemnichak-Subhashnagar More, in the area under Ramkrishna Nagar police station.According to police, the team stopped three youths after noticing them…
The Ganga in spate in Patna on Thursday Patna: The flood situation in north Bihar worsened on Thursday as the swollen Gandak breached embankments at two more points in Saran and Muzaffarpur, taking the total breaches in Champaran and Saran to eight in four days. More than 200 villages have been inundated and standing paddy…
Patna: Forty-four prisoners, most of them elderly and ailing inmates, will be released from jails across Bihar on Gandhi Jayanti under a state govt remission scheme. The move comes eight years after a similar exercise in which 43 prisoners were freed to mark the occasion.The decision, taken under the leadership of CM Samrat Choudhary on…
Patna: A university that once shaped the intellectual, academic and political life of Bihar crossed a historic milestone on Thursday—but without the ceremony that normally marks such an occasion.Patna University (PU), the seventh-oldest university in the Indian subcontinent and Bihar’s first, completed 109 years and entered its 110th year on Oct 1. Yet the campus…
