Bihar govt opening gyms to keep people healthy

October 9th, 2009 The state government has set up a special police team to firmly tackle riot cases in Bihar, officials said today. Officials said the team which is a separate wing of the Bihar Military Police will have 70 members and will work under the direct control of the Director General of Police, Bihar.

October 8th, 2009 A three-year-old boy in Bihar has survived on bitch milk as his family is too poor to afford cow milk. Family members said three-year-old Jairam, a resident of Mukundpur village in Ekma block of Bihar's Saran district, has been sucking the breast of a street bitch since his birth and the bicth also never resisted his bid.

June 16th, 2009 SAHARSA - A village in Bihar, ravaged by the 2008 devastating floods, has been restored with the help of Haryana. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda, accompanied by his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, inaugurated the Sahpurmusahari village in Saharsa district on Monday.

May 16th, 2009 PATNA - Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said the Congress has been given the mandate by people to rule the country and it should not forget the promise of a special status to his state. 'I am very pleased with the election results.

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Monday said no re-polling would be ordered in Bihar as no case was made out for this. The panel had sent six teams to the state after complaints of poll irregularities in six Lok Sabha constituencies.

April 23rd, 2009 PATNA - Voting for the second phase of parliamentary elections in 13 of the 40 constituencies in Bihar began Thursday morning amid heavy security arrangements. Voters started queueing up at many of the 17,130 polling stations much before the 7 a.m.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the first phase of elections only days away, it's a common sight to see people discussing politics at tea stalls or at street corners. At one such tea stall in south Delhi, there was a heated debate about politicians and their winning prospects - especially in Bihar.

April 1st, 2009 AURANGABAD - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today said that it was the Manmohan Singh Government which silenced Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attacks. Rahul criticized the BJP for attacking the UPA government on national security issue while launching his party's campaign in Bihar and Jharkhand.

March 31st, 2009 PATNA - Veteran socialist leader George Fernandes, whose Janata Dal-United (JD-U) denied him a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha polls, Tuesday said he would contest the elections on the nomination of a party and not as an Independent candidate in Bihar. He, however, refused to name the party that would give him the ticket for contesting from the Muzaffarpur constituency.

March 29th, 2009 PATNA - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati kicked off her party's election campaign in Bihar Sunday. 'Please bring BSP to power at the centre to serve all, particularly the poor and weaker sections of the society,' Mayawati said in her address at a public meeting in Bhagalpur town, about 200 km from here.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hours after the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) announced their seat sharing arrangement for Bihar, the Congress Tuesday termed the pact as 'unacceptable'. As per the seat sharing formula for Bihar's 40 Lok Sabha seats, 25 will go to the RJD, 12 to the LJP and three to the Congress.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The European Commission (EC) has committed a further 2 million euro (Rs.134 million) to assist with rehabilitation activities for flood victims in Bihar, in its third financial contribution for the cause, EUAsiaNews reports. The EC humanitarian aid for Bihar now totals 6.5 million euro (Rs.434 million) since the Kosi River embankment collapsed in neighbouring Nepal last August causing heavy flooding in the area.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Friday sealed an agreement on seat sharing in Bihar for the Lok Sabha elections, party sources said. JD-U leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met veteran BJP leader L.K.

March 1st, 2009 PATNA - Five new cases of polio have been detected in Bihar in the first two months of this year despite immunisation drive, an official in the state health department said Saturday. This is three less than in Uttar Pradesh, which has had the highest incidence of the infection during 2008, a Unicef official said.

February 4th, 2009 PANAJI - A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Thursday caused a flutter in the assembly when he used the word 'Bihar' as a simile to describe a 'state of lawlessness'. BJP legislator from Saligao Dilip Parulekar, who was speaking during a calling attention motion, said that Goa seemed to be going the 'Bihar way'.