Bihar Village

Researchers Mistaken For Citizens' List Surveyors Held Hostage In Bihar

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday January 26, 2020

A team of researchers from Lucknow, mistaken to be surveyors for NRC, was caught by residents of a village in Bihar's Darbhanga and handed them over to the police, a senior official said on Sunday.

Bihar Village That Transformed Wasteland Into Oasis

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday September 7, 2019

Amid government push to increase the dwindling green cover in the country, Bihar's Harpur Bochaha village is standout example of how community participation can change things for the better.

Bihar Village Head's Husband Shot Dead At Home

Cities | Press Trust of India | Tuesday August 13, 2019

Two men barged into the house of a village head in Bihar's Khagaria district and gunned down her husband who was asleep in the wee hours today, the police said.

Have To Eat Rats To Survive, Claim Locals In Flood-Affected Bihar Village

India News | ANI | Thursday July 18, 2019

Locals in Dangi Tola village of Katihar district in Bihar claimed they have no option but to eat rats as floods have wreaked havoc and destroyed houses in the region.

5,000 Bihar Villages To Be Digitally Equipped: Ravi Shankar Prasad

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 14, 2019

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said 5,000 villages of Bihar will be digitally equipped in future.

Bihar Villagers Shoo Away Lawmaker For Not Helping Encephalitis Victims

India News | ANI | Monday June 24, 2019

The angry residents of Harivanshpur village on Sunday shooed away Lok Janshakti Party MLA Rajkumar Sah for not being with them, while they were grappling with the crisis of severe water shortage and the acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), which has claimed the lives of several children in the village so far.

4 Children Of Family Burnt To Death In Bihar Village

Cities | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday February 4, 2019

Four children of a family were burnt death in Bihar's Bhagalpur district on Monday when eight houses in a village caught fire, police said.

Bihar Man Tries To Set Wife Ablaze For Not Being Able To Bear Child: Cops

India News | Reported By Manish Kumar, Edited By Swati Bhasin | Tuesday January 22, 2019

A woman in a Bihar village was rescued on Monday when her husband and in-laws were allegedly trying to set her ablaze for "not being able to bear a child," police said. Ravindra Thakur, the woman's husband, has been arrested.

Woman Hangs 3 Children, Self In Bihar Village: Police

Cities | Press Trust of India | Friday January 4, 2019

A 35-year-old woman hanged her three children and then herself inside a cow shed in Bihar's East Champaran on Friday, police said.

Bihar Tuition Teacher Marries Teen. Villagers Prevent Girls From Studying

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday January 4, 2019

Sony Kumari, Ruby Kumari and Manorma Kumari, all minors and Class 9 student in a Bihar village, have been barred from study by their parents after a nearly 50-year-old private coaching teacher of the same village reportedly married his 15-year-old student.

70-Year-Old Bihar Woman Branded A Witch, Villagers Chop Off Her Tongue

Cities | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday October 22, 2018

A 70-year-old woman's tongue was chopped off after she was branded a witch in a Bihar village in Rohtas district, police said on Monday.

Girls In Bihar Village Not Allowed To Go To School, College Over "Safety"

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday October 12, 2018

A village panchayat in the district has ordered no girls would go to schools or colleges unless their safety is ensured, after three girls were allegedly harassed on their way to their coaching classes, police said on Thursday.

98.8 Per Cent Bihar Villages Now Have Electricity

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday August 5, 2017

Only 477 of Bihar's 39,073 villages are now left to get electricity connection as the state has now provided electricity to 98.8 per of its villages.

‘My Father Used To Beat Me’: Boy Flees Bihar, Makes Delhi Railway Platform Home

Press Trust Of India | Monday July 10, 2017

New Delhi: Railway stations always fascinated Rahul Misra. These were the dots that linked the country, the boy from a remote Bihar village would tell himself. That one such platform would become his home is something that 10-year-old Rahul never imagined. But it did, when he fled from home and his abusive father six weeks ago. “My father used to...

On An Elephant, Indira Gandhi, 60, Arrived In Bihar Village

Book Excerpts | Sagarika Ghose | Saturday July 8, 2017

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