Altogether 30 students of a secondary school in Bihar's Jehanabad district were taken ill after eating mid-day meal which was suspected to have been contaminated, District Magistrate Palaki Sahni said.The students of the school in Dahma village under Kako block started vomiting soon after taking the food.The sick students have been admitted to Kako block hospital and district Sadar hospital, Sahni said, adding the condition of four of them was...

Ranjan Daimary faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) on Thursday issued fresh threat to all communities residing in the Bodo belt, security forces or “other Indian communities” warning of more “heinous and horrible results” if they make “any mistake or crime against the NDFB.” The fresh warning came after three days of serial killings by the outfit in which 24 civilians, majority of them Hindi-speaking people, were killed...

The worries of state procurement and storage agencies may accentuate, as the wheat crop this rabi season is likely to have a higher output this year. The Ministry of Agriculture has projected a crop size of 82 million tonnes as compared to 80.71 million tonnes last year. “Although a bonus of Rs 20 a quintal is a pittance, it will not dissuade farmers from growing wheat, as it is a stable crop...

Super30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar has been selected for the Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puraskar, one of the top awards in Bihar, in recognition of his contribution to education. The award will be given on Wednesday. ...

Every afternoon at about four, a slight woman named Runi slips out of the cramped, airless room that she shares with her husband and their sixteen children. She skirts the drainage ditch in front of the building, then walks toward the pile of hardened dung cakes that people in this slum on the edge of the northeastern Indian city of Patna use for fuel. Dressed in a bright-yellow sari shot...