Новости за 23.09.2015

Anand Kumar scours the Bihar hinterland mining bright young minds from distant villages to craft IIT engineers out of them at his coaching initiative Super 30. He calls it a citizen’s project -- an effort to satisfy his state's “insatiable hunger for education” that no political party or politician has tried to satiate.

The Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) is under threat of losing its logo to a private firm owned by BJP MLA Narendra Mehta.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Munger sadar hospital, which was inaugurated on February 28, 2014, by DM Amrendra Prasad Singh, is yet to become functional. Opened in a room close to the chamber of district manager of the hospital, it is well-equipped. Equipment worth Rs 20 lakh were purchased by the state government for this ICU.

CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday released the list of 242 candidates of the RJD-JD(U)- Congress Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) here, giving about 55% of the seats to OBCs, the alliance’s main support base.

Religion has nothing to do with allowing processions on open public spaces, observed Bombay high court on Wednesday even as it declined to entertain a plea by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) to hold the Jagannath Yatra at Shivaji Park citing a technical hitch.

Trade between Nepal and India through Araria district has fallen sharply since the beginning of the Madhesi agitation in Nepal about a month ago.

Nalanda Open University vice chancellor Ras Bihari Prasad Singh on Wednesday said the improper use of water resources were causing water-related problems and pollution in the country.

The face of the Patidar agitation, Hardik Patel, failed to turn up at a presser here on Wednesday. He was scheduled to speak on his proposed rallies in poll-bound Bihar. His organization members said he had been ‘missing’ from near Gandhinagar since Tuesday night. However, Hardik surfaced on Wednesday at a highway near Dhrangadhra town in Surendranagar district of Gujarat, claiming that he was kidnapped.

The do hosted by Rotary Club Benares to mark the festival of Teej turned out to be a fun-filled event.

With the filing of more than 381 nomination papers on the last day of the nomination of first phase assembly election for 49 constituencies, the total number of contestants went up to 629. The election for the first phase will be held on October 12.

Durga Puja and Navratri are round the corner and you’ve already started shopping. But what are you wearing on your nails?

This fashion show organised by FICCI FLO Lucknow and Kanpur chapter was not one of those regular ones.

A 40-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter were mowed down while a third person was injured when a speeding Innova rammed into a Skoda and jumped onto the footpath in the early hours on Wednesday.

Bihar has one of the best industrial policies in the country but industrialisation is too slow in the state, lament trade and industry circles as good intentions at the top political and official levels are not being translated into action at the ground level.

The National Summit on Quality in Education was organized in Bangalore by the CII Institute of Quality on September 22-23 to necessitate a thorough and fresh look at empowerment of teachers.

A watchman of a residential building in Mira Road has been arrested for allegedly having unnatural sex with a minor boy of the building where he was employed.

A senior citizen, who was walking along a recently renovated footpath in Airoli, suffered bruises after slipping into a crater that came up after the pavement caved in on Tuesday.

Pritam alias Peter Mukerjea, the former Star India CEO and husband of Indrani Mukerjea who is accused of killing her daughter Sheena Bora and dumping her body, visited the Khar police station on Tuesday evening. Peter told TOI that it was just a courtesy visit.

On a day when BJP president Amit Shah was in the town holding in-camera discussions with the state brass, party workers from Brahmpur assembly constituency in Buxar resorted to vandalism at the state BJP headquarters in the afternoon to protest “unfair” ticket distribution.