R. N. Thakur

Dhanbad police intercepted 300 litres of raw spirit at Bartand bus stand, intended for smuggling into Bihar before the festive season. The smugglers escaped, leaving behind the consignment concealed in paint buckets. Excise officials highlighted the danger of spurious liquor production during festivals, driven by the demand for country-made alcohol.

Political leaders, educationists and social activists of Samastipur mourned freedom fighter and former MLA Rajendra Narain Sharma (90).

Sikkim governor Ganga Prasad on Tuesday called upon the people to work for proper education of children belonging to the disadvantaged group of the society in order to bring them to the national mainstream.

Two promising students here were arrested by police for attempting to break the door of a kiosk apparently to steal dairy items and soft drinks on Monday night.

PATNA: The director of Indian Farmers' Fertiliser Cooperative (Iffco), Ajit Kumar Singh, underlined the need of taking farmers' benefit programmes like soil testing to Gram Panchayat and village level so that more farmers could be benefited by it.

Several Trade Unions like the INTUC, CITU, AITUC and AICCTU have decided to join hands in support of the five-day old strike called by the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation (BSRTC) employees who are fighting for regular salary payment, arbitrary deduction from employees' salary and against privatisation of the corporation.

State government launched the Unorganized Sector Workers and Artisans Social Security Scheme at a function organized on Thursday to mark Bihar centenary.

For the first time in last 43 years of its existence, Shri Krishna Medical College Hospital (SKMCH), Muzaffarpur, will celebrate its foundation day on March 15 with a resolve to celebrate the occasion every year.

PATNA: A division bench of the Patna High Court comprising Chief Justice Ravi S Dhavan and justice Shashank K Singh on Thursday resumed hearing in the PIL relating to people falsely claiming participation in the freedom struggle and thereby getting pension and other benefits fraudulently.

For, almost after a century, planetary conjunctions are not good this time and there is no shubh mahurat or shubh lagna for tying the much-awaited knot.

The bandh, however, evoked mixed response.Total bandh was reported only in some parts of the state.

The demand of the ban on the manufacturing, transportation, sale and consumption of ‘beedi’ and ‘khaini’ (chewing tobacco) is fast catching up in the state following the total prohibition of liquor from April 5.