'It is our right to protest and draw the attention of this government, which is sleeping and appears blind, as it has failed to see the pain and struggle of the jobless youth.'
The National Human Rights Commission said on January 25 that the Bihar government has paid Rs 300,000 to Rs 900,000 to the 49 victims.
'Unke andar will power ki kami hai.'
'I will try and make my panchayat a model one in Bihar.'
'By making Rachel Rajeshwari, Tejashwi has done an exemplary thing.'
The Nitish government has increased pressure on Governor Phagu Chauhan to take action against vice chancellors of two universities following allegations of corruption against them.
The much-hyped liquor ban in the state has been widely seen as a failed attempt five years after its introduction.
'Kanhaiya is eager to play a more active political role as a young leader of a major mainstream party.'
Retired college teachers in Bihar are facing financial difficulties as they have not received their pension for the past four months, reports M I Khan.
While the rich are buying expensive luxury vehicles in Patna, the poor continue to suffer. The pandemic, discovers M I Khan, has cast new light on the stark economic divide in the capital city of Bihar, India's poorest state.
Flood victims have been fighting for survival and living in temporary shelters nearby railway tracks with lack of food items. They are yet to get any help from the government, reports M I Khan.
'Yogi Adityanath is working for one caste only and suppressing the others,' Bihar Minister and NDA ally Mukesh Sahni tells M I Khan.
'Nitish Kumar was not happy about promoting R C P Singh as Union minister.'
Covid deaths at home, on the way to hospital or in private centres are not being counted in Bihar's official list of dead.
'They are not ready to take the vaccine.' 'They fear that if they do, they will die.'
The government's focus is on urban areas, so rural areas are neglected and the COVID situation in Bihar's villages -- neither the positive cases nor the deaths -- are reported, notes M I Khan.
116 doctors treating COVID patients in Bihar have succumbed to the disease. The family of only one doctor has received compensation.
'It refuses to leave the place where his owner was cremated.'
Why MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy and his party, the BJP, are angry with Pappu Yadav.
As the number of COVID cases rise in Bihar, data indicates that the state is slowing down on testing. It is also relying more on the Rapid Antigen Test than the more accurate RT-PCR test.
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