Topic: Bihar

Yoga and intolerance

Business Standard - 23 days ago
Following the fatwa issued by a Muslim cleric and the complaints by Christian groups against the mass performance of Suryanamaskar by students in...

$130-a-month worker wins Indian 'Millionaire' quiz

AFP Global Edition - 101 days ago
A computer operator who earns just $130 a month has become the first person to win the $1 million top prize on the Indian version of the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" television quiz.Sushil Kumar, 27, from the impoverished eastern ...

Indian rickshaw rally a ride on the wild side

AFP Asian Edition - 121 days ago
Organisers describe the three-wheeled auto rickshaw provided for a rally across India as the "ultimate long-distance off-road machine".A driver calls it a "hair-dryer-powered tin can on shopping cart wheels".A sense of humour is as important as a sense of adventure ...

The Rickshaw Run: A Ride through India's Wild Side

Viator - 122 days ago
What do you get with a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, two weeks, 72 teams and a tentative route through India that spans nearly 2,000 miles?. . You...

SEE THE PHOTOS: Tens of thousands stranded by flooding in India

NY Daily News - 143 days ago
Indian air force helicopters dropped food parcels and hundreds of boats shuttled stranded people to safer ground as surging floodwaters hit eastern...

Millions hit by heavy floods in north and eastern India

Reuters US Online Report World News - 167 days ago
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Surging flood waters in northern and eastern India have affected millions of people, forcing many from their homes as swollen rivers wash away roads and make rescue work difficult, government and aid officials said on Friday.Aid workers said ...

Abhijeet Power Files Draft Document For INR13.75 Billion Listing Plan

FOX Business - 231 days ago
India's Abhijeet Power Ltd. said Friday it has filed a draft share sale document with the capital markets regulator for an initial public offering...

Train collides with jeep in eastern India, 17 dead

Reuters US Online Report World News - 271 days ago
PATNA, India (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed when an express train collided with a crowded jeep which was driving across an unmanned railway crossing in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police said on Sunday.The victims were traveling on ...

15 female foetuses 'found on Indian tip'

AFP South Asian Edition - 318 days ago
Fifteen female foetuses have been found in jars left on a rubbish dump, Indian police said Monday, days after census data showed the ratio of girls to boys is at the nation's lowest level since 1947.The foetuses were recovered Sunday ...

Dangerous to know: India's Right to Information Act

AFP South Asian Edition - 351 days ago
Soon after he exposed how bricks were bought for six times their value for roads that were never built in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Amarnath Pandey was shot near his home.The bullet, which he believes was fired by ...