Another migrant tragedy; 9 killed in truck-bus collision in Bihar

May 20, 2020

In yet another shocking incident related to migrant labourers, nine people were killed in a road accident in Naugachia area of Bhagalpur in Bihar on Tuesday. A truck laden with iron rods girders and pipes collided with a bus and overturned on the highway. The incident took place around 6...

Bihar’s lone rhino dies under mysterious circumstances

May 20, 2020

A rhinoceros that frequented the forest range of Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar and Sohagi Barwa Wildlife Sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday. Whereas the horns were found intact on its body, traces of blood were found near its mouth giving rise to speculations...

46 BMP jawans test positive in Bihar

May 19, 2020

Forty-six jawans of the Bihar Military Police (BMP) tested positive for Covid-19, informed Additional Director of Police Jitendra Kumar on Monday. The number of coronapositive cases have been on a rise after a retired jawan in BMP camp tested positive. The entire department has been put on high-alert and according...

Bihar migrants praise Yogi, slam Nitish for not doing enough

May 16, 2020

It’s hopelessness that has come to grip a group of 16 Bihari migrant labourers walking back home from other states. These labourers, hailing from Purnia and Katihar in north-east Bihar, are totally exhausted, have run out of ration which they carried with them, and their shoes and slippers have given...

Workers self-isolate after ‘overcrowded’ facility turns them away

May 15, 2020

Tired of mismanagement and overcrowding at state run quarantine centers in Gaya, Bihar, forty workers after returning from Haryana have made their own isolation center in Pichulia village. For the past 9 days, they are holed up in ITI building and are at the mercy of villagers who have helped...

Migrant workers caught travelling in container

May 14, 2020

Around 40 migrant workers were caught travelling in a container in Gaya district of Bihar. They travelled all the way from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, in an effort to reach their native state as the ongoing lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic has rendered all of them jobless. With many even walking...

Inmates at Bihar quarantine centres protest lack of food, facilities

May 13, 2020

Mismanagement at quarantine centres seems to be becoming a troublesome issue all across Bihar. At the SU college quarantine centre in Hilsa, in the home district of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, protests erupted after those quarantined were served two biscuits and half-a-cup of tea for breakfast. The inmates refused...

Left with nothing, 7 girls walk 500 km towards home

May 12, 2020

Unable to take the hardships of lockdown any further and with their entire savings gone, seven girls decided to walk from Samastipur in Bihar to their hometown, Ranchi, in neighbouring Jharkhand. Having walked on foot for almost two days, they reached Patna covering a distance of about 130 km. At...

Bihar sends 222 ‘willing’ workers to Telangana for work

May 9, 2020

With thousands of migrant labourers still returning to their homes, taking trains and some walking the distance, a group of 222 workers left Khagaria in Bihar for Lingampalli in Telangana to rejoin work in a rice mill. Khagaria District Magistrate Alok Ranjan Ghosh tweeted, «Facilitated the despatch of first ever...

Patna sees sudden rise in air pollution in lockdown 3.0

May 7, 2020

From the first to the third phase of the nationwide lockdown, there has been a drastic increase in air pollution in Patna. The air quality index (AQI) that was hovering around 50 to 52 in the first two phases of the lockdown has gone up to 102 during the day...