Tag: patna
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Bihar: Covid-19 caseload rises to 1.04 lakh
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist) Patna: Bihar’s Covid-19 caseload rose to 1.04 lakh on Sunday as 2,187 more people tested positive for the infection, while 22 fresh fatalities pushed its coronavirus death toll to 537. Patna district registered the highest number of fresh cases at 255, followed by Bhagalpur (177), Madhubani (127), Aurangabad (113), and Muzaffarpur…
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Fulfilled promises within time, says CM Nitish Kumar
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist) Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar made a slew of promises and highlighted the work his government has done in the poll-bound state in his Independence Day address in Patna on Saturday. He said he will seek votes on what he has promised. “I had said that I will not come before…
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Flood situation deteriorates in Bihar
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): The flood situation in Bihar deteriorated on Wednesday after 2.16 lakh more people were affected by the calamity. The number of those affected has now reached 77.18 lakh in 16 districts. The number of people who died in flood-related incidents in the state remained at 24, a Disaster Management Department bulletin…
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Testing scaled up as Bihar set to cross 1-lakh mark
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Bihar scaled up the testing to more than 1 lakh even as the covid-19 positive cases paced fast, close to reaching the 1-lakh mark on Thursday. With the addition of 3,906 cases, the cumulative tally to 94,459, while the testing in the last 24 hours was 1,04,452. CM Nitish Kumar had…
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Targeting Bihari community in the name of late actor SSR’s family
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): Actor Sushant Singh Rajput died at the age of 34, sending the entire nation into shock. But as if this sudden loss of a young talented person was not numbing enough, media houses and channels made it worse with their insensitive coverage of the incident. ThePrint (website) has come up with…
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Patna: R-block inauguration by CM today
(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist) Patna: The R-block flyover will begin on Sunday. CM Nitish Kumar will inaugurate it at 12 noon. With the inauguration, roads will be closed from R-block to G.P.O. to make the third end of the flyover. The Road Construction Department has given necessary instructions to the Patna District Administration in this…
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19 thousand crores transferred to 9.65 crore farmers
(Kajal Singh intern journalist): The scheme was announced in February last year, under which 14 crore farmers across the country are to be given Rs 6,000 in three equal installments. The government has added more than Rs 19,000 crore to the bank accounts of 9.65 crore farmers under the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan)…