Articles by Arun Kumar
Lakhs of acres locked in Bihar land survey stir row
Bihar's government locks land records, sparking fears of litigation and claims of ownership issues, while officials assert it's to prevent misuse.

Updated on Nov 19, 2024 09:40 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Bihar puts on hold transfer/posting of lakhs of teachers
Bihar government halts new teacher transfer policy amid concerns and court hearings, planning to address issues after competency tests completion.

Updated on Nov 19, 2024 06:48 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Bihar puts on hold contentious transfer/posting policy for lakhs of teachers
State Education minister said transfer & posting of teachers would now be done together for all teachers after completion of 5 competency tests for old teachers

Published on Nov 19, 2024 06:41 PM IST
Cops, excise officials love liquor ban, means big money: Patna high court
Justice Purnendu Singh also underlined how only a few cases were registered against the liquor kingpin and enforcement action was mostly aimed at the poor

Updated on Nov 15, 2024 06:40 PM IST
Contributions of tribals to freedom movement ignored, says PM targeting past govts
PM Modi asserted that he worshipped the ‘Adivasi Samaj’ and his govt took the decision to celebrate Munda’s birth anniversary as ‘Janjaatiya Gaurav Divas’ because the community never got its due

Published on Nov 15, 2024 03:33 PM IST
How marginalised are the marginalised in India
There is an urgent need to have an official estimate of the poverty line and bring in policy changes to impact the lives of the social groups less fortunate

Published on Nov 14, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Bihar bypolls: Stakes are high for all parties, with an eye on 2025 assembly elections
The bypolls to four assembly constituencies in Bihar will be held on November 13, while the results will be announced on November 23.

Published on Nov 12, 2024 05:08 PM IST
Lalu Yadav delivers unity message in Belaganj that voted RJD for 3 decades
Vishwanath Yadav is the son of eight-time legislator Surendra Prasad Yadav who has represented Belagnj seat in the Bihar assembly since 1990

Updated on Nov 11, 2024 07:57 PM IST
Retired bureaucrats made VC, registrar of Bihar’s first sports university
The Bihar sports Academy and Bihar Sports University was inaugurated by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on August 29, 2024.

Published on Nov 10, 2024 08:00 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Many Bihar school teachers set to lose jobs due to ineligibility, fake documents
The district education officers have been seeking clarification from suspect teachers with regard to lack of CTET eligibility or forged documents frequently.

Published on Nov 05, 2024 01:29 PM IST
Opposition attacks Nitish Kumar over hooch deaths in Bihar’s Siwan, Saran
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said there was a so-called liquor ban in Bihar but liquor was available at every square and intersection

Updated on Oct 17, 2024 02:50 PM IST
Jan Suraaj fields ex-Army dy chief in bypoll
Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party has nominated Lt Gen Krishna Singh for the Tarari assembly bypoll in Bihar, set for November 13.

Updated on Oct 16, 2024 07:50 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Bihar govt to give more time to land owners, but firm on survey to end disputes
Bihar revenue and land reforms minister Dilip Jaiswal said the land mafia were deliberately trying to spread rumours to create confusion and chaos, but that would not work

Published on Sep 21, 2024 02:47 PM IST
Amid fear of salary & pension in festive season, teachers seek CM intervention
Into the third month without payment, the joint action committee of the two main teachers’ bodies have sought the intervention of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Published on Sep 18, 2024 08:33 PM IST
Bihar government plans to rank its schools in a bid to improve quality
The ranking will be done separately for primary, middle, secondary and higher secondary schools on specific yardsticks

Published on Sep 18, 2024 04:40 PM IST
Bihar plans to rank its schools in quality quest
Bihar government has decided to rank government schools using specific quantifiable parameters to improve the quality of schools.

Published on Sep 18, 2024 04:03 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Bihar’s new problem: Students bringing guns to schools
Psychiatrists and psychologists say the dangerous inclination points to the decaying environment, quest for quick fame through short-cuts and eroding family and social values that earlier worked as a big deterrent.

Published on Sep 11, 2024 09:00 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Give charge of principal posts to most senior profs only: Bihar Guv to varsities
The direction will not apply to Nalanda Open University, Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Bihar Agriculture University and Bihar Animal Science University as they don’t have constituent colleges under them.

Published on Sep 06, 2024 08:14 PM IST
HC stays order banning plying of diesel school buses in Patna
The court ordered stay on the notification, published in the state gazette on February 23, to ban diesel school buses while hearing a petition by the Association of independent schools.

Published on Sep 04, 2024 09:19 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Govt school teacher falls into Ganga on way to duty on boat, feared drowned
The 25-year-old teacher was boarding the boat in Patna to go to his school in a riverine area when he slipped and fell into the river

Published on Aug 23, 2024 09:19 PM IST
Amid large-scale teachers’ recruitment, broad-ranging discrepancies in Bihar
Despite recruitment through BPSC, It is turning out to be channelling exercise to weed out undeserving teachers who managed to hoodwink the process to get jobs.

Published on Aug 23, 2024 02:30 PM IST
Upendra Kushwaha, Manan Mishra file nominations for Bihar Rajya Sabha bypolls
With the last date of filing on August 21, both the candidates are set to be elected unopposed, as the opposition has not fielded any candidate

Published on Aug 21, 2024 03:12 PM IST
BJP picks BCI chairman Manan Mishra for RS
Mishra, a native of Gopalganj in Bihar, emerged as a dark horse after the high-level meeting of BJP leaders in New Delhi.

Published on Aug 20, 2024 09:42 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Punishment nature dept’s prerogative: Patna HC on teacher’s ‘forced retirement’
The Patna HC heard the petition filed by Kumar Sunil Sinha, the former in-charge headmaster of Arwal Ambedkar Residential Girls High School.

Published on Aug 19, 2024 07:57 PM IST
Arun Kumar, New Delhi
NIRF Rankings 2024: Reality check for Bihar institutions
In the college category, Patna Women’s College was in the 101-151 rankings and it was the only college in the top 300. Rest did not feature in the ranking.

Updated on Aug 13, 2024 04:16 PM IST
Bihar’s new universities gripped with old syndrome: No UGC 12-B status yet
3 new state universities in Bihar has got recognition under Section 12-B of the UGC after 6 years of formation.

Published on Aug 12, 2024 07:33 AM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Bihar: Raj Bhavan issues show cause notice to Patliputra University vice chancellor
The show cause notice was served after alleged irregularities, of giving charge to junior teachers, were brought to the fore.

Published on Aug 09, 2024 06:24 PM IST
Former Jharkhand BJP leader Saryu Roy joins Nitish Kumar’s JD(U)
The move is expected to strengthen JD(U), which is a key BJP ally at the Centre and in Bihar, ahead of the assembly polls in Jharkhand this year

Published on Aug 05, 2024 08:42 AM IST
Results of Bihar job exams on basis of prevailing quota rule, AG tells HC
The education department has already reverted to the old 50% formula for teachers’ recruitment.

Published on Aug 03, 2024 06:26 PM IST
Arun Kumar, Patna
Bihar govt keeps fingers crossed despite SC refusing to stay HC order
The HC order triggered another wave of politics on reservation and the NDA government would certainly not like to let it become a weapon for the Opposition.

Published on Aug 01, 2024 09:00 AM IST