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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: Bihar

Bihar ready with 7,500 hotel rooms to screen 25 lakh returning migrants: Health minister

Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey says the recent spike in Covid-19 cases in the state is because of the state govt’s door-to-door screening campaign.

Tax China for Covid, charging cess from India’s rich ‘absurd’ idea: BJP MP to Sitharaman

In a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, MP and Bihar BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal has said Modi govt should junk proposals to raise taxes in India.

Nitish govt gets to work to bring 27 lakh migrants, students back but says it’ll take months

Bihar has been reluctant to evacuate its migrants and students, and while it has drawn up a plan to get them back, it is yet to shed its hesitance.  

With just biscuits and water, migrants on highways walk, cycle to homes hundreds of miles away

On the way from Delhi-Agra-Lucknow, migrant workers complain of no transportation, and lack of food and government support.

How Nitish put onus of solving Bihar’s problem of stranded migrants, students on Modi govt

Bihar minister Sanjay Jha says lockdown guidelines forbid inter-state travel, and other states’ moves signify different rules for different states.

How Bihar Covid situation deteriorated in 3 weeks, and why doctors fear worst is yet to come

As of Monday morning, Bihar has a total of 277 Covid-19 cases. Eight districts in the state have cases in double digits, with Munger emerging as the worst hit.

Bihar, Bengal Covid migrants aren’t as lucky as those from UP or MP

While Kejriwal and Uddhav Thackeray are keen to send the migrants out, Nitish Kumar has constantly pushed back, saying that it would violate the lockdown.

This is the only Indian state that doesn’t want its students, migrants to return home

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been consistent in opposing easing of lockdown rules, even to bring back state’s students stranded in Kota.

Bihar officer suspended for issuing pass to BJP MLA who went to Kota to bring daughter

Anu Kumar, the sub-divisional officer from Nawada district, was found guilty of negligence in issuing the pass facilitating inter-state travel amid nationwide lockdown.

Why it’s still expensive for states to borrow money when Covid-19 has shrunk interest rates

Amid a cash crunch due to Covid-19, states have been forced to borrow at a rate at least 1.3 percentage points higher than the rate at which RBI lends to banks.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.