NEWS ETC ‘No FIR for seven days, clean chit in 24 hours’: Patna shelter home sexual abuse case gets murkier Accusations of sexual abuse by a 19-year-old former resident of a government-run shelter house for orphased girls in Gaighat area...
NEWS ETC Court cases, imprisonment and hooch deaths: Will amending Bihar’s prohibition law change things? In the last fortnight, 18 people died in Bihar after consuming spurious liquor. Two months ago, at least 39 people...
NEWS ETC RRB-NTPC Protests: Students’ union calls for Bihar bandh on Jan 28; threatens nationwide movement Alleging injustice in allotment of seats to the qualifying candidates of the Railway Recruitment Board’s Non Technical Popular Categories (RRB-NTPC)...
Livelihood As they sew, so they reap: Women in Bihar use Sujani embroidery to empower themselves Sujani embroidery from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, holds a GI tag. Traditionally, women quilted patches of cloth together and embroidered motifs from...
NEWS ETC Muzaffarpur factory blast: ‘Boiler was leaking for 6 months, we told factory authorities but nothing was done to fix it’ An explosion at a noodle-making factory in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur has resulted in the violent deaths of seven workers while at...
NEWS ETC Bihar hooch deaths: 16 men from Dakshin Telhua village lose their lives after consuming spurious liquor While liquor has been banned in Bihar since 2016, there is easy access to illegal and spurious spirits. Recently, 39...
NEWS ETC Rural Bihar in the grip of ‘viral fever’; children suffer the most, paediatric wards full A viral fever, particularly debilitating to children, is sweeping through rural Bihar. Last month alone, a little less than hundred...
