The Latest Breaking News from Patna

PATNA: The state on Thursday registered two Covid deaths and 479 new cases. The two fresh deaths have taken the state's Covid toll to 12,268.

PATNA: Work on metro rail and double-decker flyover projects on Ashok Rajpath is likely to be delayed as the compressed natural gas (CNG) pipeline that was laid from Gandhi Maidan to Gai Ghat has come as a major obstacle. The agencies engaged in building the flyover and underground metro stations…

PATNA: The holy month of Shrawan began with religious fervour and gaiety on Thursday, amid chanting of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Jai Bholenaath’ in and around the temples, where devotees started arriving since morning for offering prayers to the Lord Shiva and the Goddess Parvati across the state.

PATNA: Phulwarisharif locality in the city has hogged the limelight for wrong reasons once again following the arrest of three people for their alleged terror links.

PATNA: The batch of 2022 of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Patna has achieved another remarkable feat by grabbing six international job offers by the BTech students through the off-campus recruitment process with a pay package of more than Rs 1 crore.

PATNA: Bihar police on Thursday claimed to have busted a ‘terror module’ involved in anti-India activities and arrested three persons after stumbling upon them on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s July 12 visit to Patna.

PATNA: The Patna Meteorological Centre, in its bulletin on Thursday afternoon, issued forecast for rainfall at a few places in the state from Saturday to Monday. Majority of places in south Bihar are likely to witness dry weather on Friday.

MOTIHARI: The hike in LPG cylinder price by Rs 50 earlier this week has added to the woes of common people who were already hard-pressed with rising inflation. With this increase, a 14.2-kg LPG cylinder will now cost Rs 1,151 in Patna.

PATNA: Alertness of a trackman averted a major accident and saved lives of hundreds of passengers travelling by the Muzaffarpur-Patliputra MEMU train (05353), when he detected a rail fracture between Turki and Ramdayalu Nagar section on Muzaffarpur-Hajipur route in the Sonepur division of the East Central Railway (ECR), on Sunday…

PATNA: The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), one of the flagship schemes of the Centre launched more than four decades ago as a corrective intervention for young children in the 0-6 age group and expectant or nursing mothers, is yet to deliver the desired results in Bihar.

PATNA: Several railway employees, including medical director of ECR's superspecialty hospital at Karbighaiya in Patna, Dr R K Verma, have tested positive for coronavirus in the last few days. All the infected staff are in home isolation.