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Topic: Bihar

BJP ‘anti-Muslim’, vaccines will ‘sterilise’ us — why these Bihar Muslim villages shun Covid jab

Vaccine hesitancy in the Muslim community has little to do with faith as religious scholars have backed Covid vaccination drive. Authorities in Bihar attribute it to misinformation & illiteracy. 

This showpiece Bihar govt hospital has all facilities, but patients keep waiting for ‘treatment’

Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Medical College and Hospital was inaugurated in 2020, as part of Nitish govt’s promise to strengthen Bihar’s healthcare.

Bodies floating in Ganga not from Bihar, not our culture, says state minister

Bihar Water Resources Development Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha further said he can't openly mention which state the bodies are coming from and asked the Centre to probe this matter.

Covid killed parents, 3 Bihar siblings now fight virus stigma — ‘no one even offered food’

The three siblings lost their parents in the space of a week. They have received Rs 4 lakh as compensation from the state, but fear for what the future holds for them.

It’s 2021, but floating bodies in UP and Bihar have sent us back to 1918

In Bihar’s Buxar, 71 corpses washed up at Mahadev Ghat of the Ganga river. In UP's Hamirpur, local residents fear the floating bodies will pose a new risk to their health.

How this Bihar IAS officer saved nearly 250 lives by solving acute oxygen crisis in 8 hours

Purnea averted a disaster on 12 May when the Bihar district's only oxygen plant broke down. An 8-hour operation led by DM Rahul Kumar managed to defuse the crisis.

Pappu Yadav’s arrest ‘undemocratic, insensitive’ say Nitish allies as cracks appear in NDA

Don-turned-politician & former MP Pappu Yadav was among the few politicians seen helping people on ground amid Covid surge. He was arrested Tuesday for violating lockdown rules.

In Arrah & Buxar, pharmacists and ‘jhola chaaps’ are treating Covid because doctors ‘refuse to’

Covid-19 patients in Bihar’s Arrah and Buxar districts are left to their fate as hospitals don’t have beds or staff, and private doctors have shut clinics.

When ‘hell’ came floating on Ganga — Bihar village in shock after 71 bodies wash ashore

Bihar’s Chausa borders UP’s Ghazipur district, and state government and also Buxar district administration believe the bodies came downstream from the neighbouring state.

In Bihar’s Bhojpur, quacks are ‘Gods who save lives’ as hospitals battle Covid burden

According to 2018 data, Bihar has the lowest ratio of doctors in terms of population in the country. So quacks, commonly known as 'jhola-chhaap doctors', command huge respect in rural areas

On Camera

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.