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Saturday, September 6, 2025
TopicBihar government

Topic: Bihar government

The story of Bihar’s two mafias—sand and booze

The sand and liquor mafias have corroded Bihar’s economy, fuelled criminal politics, brought in a rural rot, and rendered its youth unemployable for at least a decade.

Bihar is on a sports gold rush. Rs 680 cr budget, big-ticket events, hunt for Olympians

Bihar wants to go from sports underdog to medal powerhouse. It’s building stadiums, hiring coaches, and running a talent hunt in 40,000 schools — but it’s still battling decades of dysfunction.

‘Synergy’ summit in Bihar’s Vaishali aims to redefine ties between academia and industry

The meet at the Government Engineering College was held under the aegis of the state’s Department of Science, Technology, and Technical Education (GEC).

Nitish Kumar sends officials back to classroom. 1,000-yr-old Kaithi slows Bihar land survey

Bihar’s civil engineers and surveyors are taking govt-mandated Kaithi crash courses to meet the 2025 land survey deadline. ‘Without learning it, the work can’t be done.’

BJP slams Nitish Kumar govt over scrapping number of Hindu holidays in Bihar schools

Sushil Kumar Modi, former deputy CM, accused Nitish Kumar and his associates of ‘dividing Hindus along caste lines’ and ‘getting away with Muslim appeasement.’

CM Nitish Kumar proposes raising quotas for SCs, STs & OBCs in Bihar

Nitish says reservations for OBCs needs to be raised from 50% to 65%. For SCs & STs, which together account for 17% quota, he says limit should be raised to 22%.

34% in Bihar ‘poor’ & earn less than Rs 6,000 a month, finds 2nd tranche of data from caste survey

Report based on the survey, placed before Bihar Assembly Tuesday, also shows that over 50 lakh Biharis live outside the state for livelihood & education.

Enlighten us about chancellor’s authority & ‘unambiguous’ powers, Bihar education secy tells governor

This week, Raj Bhavan issued letters warning universities of attempts to undermine governor's authority. He's 'well advised' to step into court cases involving universities, says govt.

Janmashtami to Teej, Bihar govt cuts 12 holidays for schools. BJP calls it ‘appeasement’ politics

The Bihar education department order stated that holidays had to be pared down to maintain 200 working days in primary schools and 220 in middle schools in accordance with RTE Act.

Modi govt opposes Bihar caste survey, says only Centre empowered to carry out statutory process

Bihar govt counsel says Centre's affidavit 'contemptuous' as it is in abrogation of an earlier apex court order in which Centre was directed to carry out caste-based survey in Kerala

On Camera

Kolkata’s silencing of Javed Akhtar exposes India’s secular vacuum

Even those parties that wear the label of secular and progressive often bow to the pressures of fundamentalist groups within the Muslim community.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Dassault Aviation takes majority control of joint venture with Anil Ambani’s Reliance

Following the transaction which is expected to be completed by November, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd will become an associate company, with Reliance retaining a 49% stake.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.