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Ruchir Kumar

Ruchir writes on health, aviation, power and myriad other issues. An ex-TOI, he has worked both on Desk and in reporting. He over 25 years of broadcast and print journalism experience in Assam, Jharkhand & Bihar.

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Govt removes Patna’s AIIMS executive director who was indicted by inquiry panel

Dr Saurabh Varshney, executive director of AIIMS Deoghar, has been told to hold additional responsibility as AIIMS Patna ED

An inquiry panel set up by the union health ministry recommended divesting Dr Pal of his responsibilities at AIIMS Patna. (HT FILE PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 05, 2024 04:11 PM IST

Non-creamy layer tag for Patna AIIMS head’s son under probe

Sons and daughters of group A/class I officers of the all-India Central and state services (direct recruits) come under creamy layer, and are not entitled to the benefit of reservation of 27% for OBCs in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

AIIMS Patna head Dr Gopal Krushna Pal.
Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:33 AM IST

Work on Darbhanga AIIMS to begin soon: Nadda

A new agency has been appointed. Its structural design is being made, and soon we will make an impressive AIIMS in Darbhanga, Nadda said.

BJP president and Union health minister J P Nadda with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and others at the inauguration of the eye building of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science hospital in Patna. (HT photo)
Published on Sep 06, 2024 09:19 PM IST
By, Patna

99-year-old PMCH gets nod for superspecialty course in nephrology, neurology

Patna Medical College & Hospital got the nod for commencement of medical superspecialty courses in nephrology, neurology in its 99th year of existence.

99-year-old PMCH gets nod for superspecialty course in nephrology, neurology
Published on Sep 03, 2024 08:09 PM IST
By, Patna

Patna AIIMS gets nod to begin kidney transplants

The approval comes almost three years after the AIIMS had, on October 8, 2021, moved a request to the state health department for grant of certificate of registration for kidney transplant.

Patna AIIMS (HT file)
Updated on Aug 27, 2024 09:09 PM IST
By, Patna

When the chips were down, she took a shot

From wearing her hair in a plait and helping her parents in the fields bare feet to cropping her hair short and donning spikes with shorts and T-shirt, Ruby Kumari, 16, has dribbled a long way from the lush fields of Bihar to some of the best football grounds in India, playing for her home state.

A Dalit girl from Narindrapur, a nondescript village in Siwan’s Ziradei block, the hometown of India’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad, Ruby was born to a poor family and her, Surendra Ram, worked at a brick kiln before turning a farmer.
Updated on Aug 17, 2024 08:10 AM IST

Bihar govt hands over 150-acre land to Centre for AIIMS Darbhanga

The health ministry had on July 25 given its approval for construction of AIIMS at Ekmi Shobhan bypass in Darbhanga

The AIIMS at Darbhanga will be the second in the state, after the one in Patna. (HT file photo)
Updated on Aug 12, 2024 04:43 PM IST

Nitish Kumar calls budget “progressive”; Tejashwi Yadav says it lacked revival plan

The statement comes on the day when Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced major announcements for Bihar while presenting the budget

Nitish Kumar expressed his happiness after the state announced major financial outlay in the budget. (ANI photo)
Updated on Jul 23, 2024 07:57 PM IST

Bihar man files FIR against neighbour after electric fence kills 4 street dogs

Sushil Kumar Singh said he will pursue the FIR to its logical conclusion to ensure justice for the four dogs that were killed by the electric fence

Uday Kumar, SHO of the Ekma police station, said they were waiting for the postmortem report (Anipixels.com via Peta India)
Updated on Jul 17, 2024 09:48 PM IST

14 barred Patanjali products sold across counter at dedicated stores

HT visited Patanjali stores across four major Indian cities — New Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and Dehradun — and was able to procure most of these products, procuring a receipt in each of these cases.

HT visited Patanjali stores across four major Indian cities — New Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and Dehradun — and was able to procure most of these products, procuring a receipt in each of these cases. (HT PHOTO)
Published on Jul 11, 2024 09:27 AM IST
By, , , , New Delhi/lucknow/patna/ Dehradun

First time MP: ‘I practised the oath so that I don’t stumble’

This week, Shambhavi Choudhury returned to Delhi as the first woman parliamentarian from Samastipur, Bihar.

An alumna of LSR and Delhi School of Economics, Shambhavi Choudhury was a director in a Patna school for a few years. (Arvind Yadav/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jul 02, 2024 06:16 AM IST
By, New Delhi/patna

21 newly elected Bihar Lok Sabha MPs have declared criminal cases: ADR report

The lone independent candidate Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav from Purnia, has declared 41 criminal cases against himself

Of the 12 BJP MPs, as many as eight (67%) have declared criminal cases. (Representative file photo)
Published on Jun 19, 2024 11:19 AM IST

LS polls: Campaign ends, 8 seats in Bihar up for grabs in last lap

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ramkripal Yadav, R K Singh and Misa Bharti are among the key faces in the fray in the last phase

Polling staff collect election material from a centre in Patna for the last phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. (HT PHOTO)
Published on May 30, 2024 09:35 PM IST

Bihar to explore imparting medical education in Hindi

The Bihar government has asked a three member team to submit its report by June 5.

Bihar government to explore imparting medical education in Hindi
Published on May 29, 2024 09:35 AM IST
By, Patna

Lok Sabha polls: Legacy, development aspirations key factors in Hajipur seat

In Hajipur, Gunjan Kumar seeks employment and leans towards RJD, while his father supports PM Modi.

Ram Vilas Paswan’s brother Pasupati Paras is the Hajipur MP, but the seat has now been given to LJP (RV) chief Chirag Paswan. (HT Photo)
Updated on May 18, 2024 01:15 AM IST

Chirag Paswan might face stiff opposition from RJD’s Shiv Chandra Ram

Chirag is a two-time MP from Jamui but is contesting the Hajipur seat for the first time, ignoring his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, who was the sitting MP

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan (File Photo)
Published on May 18, 2024 12:56 AM IST

No cakewalk for Chirag in Hajipur amid silent Paras play

Hajipur is the headquarter town of Vaishali district. It is a Lok Sabha seat reserved for SCs. From 1977 to 2019, the seat was won eight times by Ram Vilas Paswan, who lost only twice, in 1984 and 2009.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chirag Paswan at his rally in Hajipur on May 13. (HT)
Published on May 17, 2024 09:18 PM IST
By, Patna

Worth 36 cr, Rohini richest candidate in Bihar in 5th phase

Rohini is married to Samresh Singh, a software engineer. The couple lived in Singapore before she decided to take the electoral plunge.

RJD candidate from Saran, Rohini Acharya, filed her nomination paper for Lok Sabha elections on April 29. (HT file)
Updated on May 12, 2024 09:42 PM IST
By, Patna

Seven doctors in LS fray in Bihar on party tickets, IMA backs

Misa Bharti and Rohini Acharya, two daughters of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, are the most prominent candidates among the doctors in the fray in the state, which has 40 Lok Sabha seats.

Former union minister and sitting BJP MP from Patna Sahib constituency, Ravishankar Prasad, comes out after filing his nomination paper for Lok Sabha polls. To his left is Dr C P Thakur, one of the most eminent doctors of Bihar who also served as union health minister. (HT photo)
Published on May 10, 2024 09:53 PM IST
By, Patna

Losing deposit no bar for LS, assembly bids in Bihar

More than 80 per cent of candidates in Bihar have forfeited their security deposits in the last two parliamentary elections in the country as well as the assembly polls in the state.

Satyendra Baitha, an Independent candidate, rode a donkey to file his nomination for Gopalganj Lok Sabha seat recently.
Published on May 08, 2024 09:51 PM IST
By, Patna

LS polls: Bihar sees 60% turnout in five seats in 3rd phase

A presiding officer at a polling booth in Supaul and a Home Guard jawan in Araria district passed away on Tuesday, allegedly due to a heart attack.

At a polling booth in Khagaria on Tuesday. (HT photo)
Published on May 07, 2024 09:48 PM IST
By, Patna

Chirag, Rudy file nominations

In Saran, Rudy will be pitted against Lalu Prasad’s younger daughter Rohini Acharya, who is making her electoral debut. Chirag, who won from Jamui in 2014 and 2019, has returned to his father’s bastion of Hajipur.

BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy files his nomination for the Saran Lok Sabha seat on Thursday. (HT photo)
Updated on May 02, 2024 09:42 PM IST
By, Patna

LS polls: Bihar beats 1st phase turnout, but falls short of 2019 mark in 5 seats

The seats whose fate was sealed on Friday were Kishanganj, Katihar and Purnia in the Seemanchal region that has significant Muslim population, besides Bhagalpur and Banka.

Union minister Ashwini Choubey after casting his vote in Bhagalpur on Friday. The sitting BJP MP from Buxar has been denied ticket this time. (PTI)
Updated on Apr 26, 2024 10:05 PM IST
By, Patna

JD(U) aims to better 2019 tally in phase 2 of Lok Sabha polls

The BJP-led NDA, taking into account Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s secular image, gave the JD(U) all five seats to contest, given the fact that Seemanchal is a Muslim-dominated area

Votingwill take place from 7am to 6pm in all five parliamentary constituencies. (Janata Dal (United) | Official X account)
Published on Apr 25, 2024 10:03 AM IST

Bihar voters cold, officials blame heat

State recorded a provisional voting percentage of 48.23, a 5.24% dip from the previous 53.47% overall turnout in 2019 in the four seats — Aurangabad, Gaya (SC), Nawada and Jamui (SC) — that went to vote on Friday.

At a polling booth in Gaya on Friday. (HT photo)
Published on Apr 19, 2024 09:28 PM IST
By, Patna

4 of Bihar’s 40 Lok Sabha seats to go to polls in first phase

Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned in Jamui, Nawada, and Gaya between April 4 and 16, and Union minister Amit Shah in Aurangabad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar’s Nawada. (HT PHOTO)
Published on Apr 18, 2024 05:03 PM IST

CPI-ML LS poll manifesto bats for electoral reforms, return to paper ballot

The electoral reforms the CPI-ML suggested included putting a cap on the election expenditure of political parties, right to the electorate to recall elected representatives and automatic cancellation of their membership in case of defection

CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. (HT File Photo)
Published on Apr 08, 2024 06:33 PM IST

INDIA bloc slams BJP’s ‘lies’ at its rally in Bihar

Top opposition leaders of the INDIA alliance criticized the BJP in a rally in Patna, targeting Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for switching alliances.

Top leaders of the INDIA bloc at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on Sunday. (ANI)
Updated on Mar 04, 2024 04:42 AM IST
By, Patna

INDIA bloc leaders sound poll bugle, give ‘oust BJP’ call in Bihar rally

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi termed Bihar the political nerve center of the country, and said whenever there was a transformation, it began from Bihar

INDIA bloc leaders join hands during the RJD's 'Jan Vishwas Maha Rally' at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on Sunday. (ANI)
Updated on Mar 03, 2024 10:34 PM IST

Nitish meets Union health secretary, reiterates demand for AIIMS at Shobhan

Chandra, a civil engineer from IIT-Delhi, reached Darbhanga on Monday, where he inspected the Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), a super speciality hospital

All Indian Medical Science (Representative Photo)
Published on Feb 14, 2024 02:59 PM IST
By, Bishnu K Jha
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