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  • Ambulance staff see dying up shut as rural India battles excessive summer season warmth

    Via Related Press

    BANPUR (Uttar Pradesh): Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik’s ambulance tore throughout a dry and rocky geographical region blasted by way of unhealthy noon warmth, speeding to test on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old guy with imaginable warmth stroke. Once they reached the person’s village, Naik’s paramedic spouse guided the guy into the ambulance, then checked his pulse and oxygen ranges as Naik sped again to the general public medical institution.

    With slightly a second to drink some water and splash their faces, the boys had been dispatched once more, this time to select up a pregnant girl who had long gone into hard work because the temperature soared to 43 levels Celsius (109.4 Fahrenheit). And so went any other livid 12-hour shift in India’s increasingly more fatal summer season, when Naik and paramedic Jitendra Kumar from time to time to find themselves hurrying to as many as two times the standard choice of calls.

    Excessive warmth is speedy changing into a public well being disaster in India, with greater than 150 folks death all over the most recent brutal warmth wave in June. Extended warmth waves, from time to time categorized as a slow-onset crisis, are one of the crucial deadliest penalties of world warming that India faces. The federal government estimates just about 11,000 folks have died all over warmth waves this century, but mavens say such figures are most probably an infinite undercount.

    Banpur, a village of about 13,000, lies within the most commonly deficient Bundelkhand area deep in India’s inner. It is arid and stony, with little tree quilt to offer protection to folks in one of the crucial country’s freshest areas. Naik and Kumar make up certainly one of two ambulance crews that quilt the village and surrounding house, wearing sufferers to the government-run public well being middle. The state and federal governments lend a hand fund the not-for-profit ambulance carrier, making it a loose lifeline for sufferers.

    “I imagine each affected person my circle of relatives member. I don’t care whether it is sizzling or if I’m hungry, I’m going on a project to get the affected person out and delivery them to the medical institution,” stated Naik, whose handiest coverage from the warmth and dry, sizzling winds is a white cotton towel wrapped round his head. “It’s tough for me riding the car in excessive warmth, however it’s not anything in comparison to the hardships of a affected person in a scientific emergency.”

    Well being mavens say the warmth can kill slowly — and briefly. The short means may well be via easy warmth stroke, whilst a slower dying might end result when individuals who have already got critical well being stipulations undergo via prolonged warmth, stated Dileep Mavalankar, former head of the Indian Institute of Public Well being, Gandhinagar.

    Mavalankar used to be instrumental in creating India’s first warmth motion plan, for town of Ahmedabad in 2013, 3 years after greater than 1,300 folks died all over a warmth wave there. The plan set out tips that incorporated issuing a warmth alert when temperatures rose previous 41 levels Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit), teaching folks equivalent to out of doors laborers, farmers and others uncovered to warmth in regards to the dangers they face, and offering sources to native well being facilities and hospitals to take care of heat-related diseases.

    “When a cyclone occurs, everyone seems to be on alert, they usually act right away however there may be little consciousness or motion to take care of excessive warmth,” Mavalankar stated. “There must be a media blitzkrieg, native governments will have to warn folks to stick indoors and make their hospitals in a position to take care of heat-related circumstances,” he stated.

    Aditya Valiathan Pillai of the Centre for Coverage Analysis, a New Delhi suppose tank, lately studied India’s readiness to reply to extraordinarily sizzling climate. He stated such plans — which come with cooling facilities and well being care help —- are crucial to saving lives.

    Local weather mavens say that warmth waves are right here to stick, and India wishes to organize higher to take care of their penalties. A learn about by way of International Climate Attribution, an educational workforce that examines the supply of maximum warmth, discovered {that a} searing warmth wave in April that struck portions of South Asia used to be made no less than 30 occasions much more likely by way of local weather alternate.

    But poorer areas like Uttar Pradesh, the place Banpur lies, could have a plan on paper however now not the power to hold it out.

    “The inhabitants is inclined as it lacks sources and has inadequate infrastructure to deal with serious temperatures,” stated Anjal Prakash, a analysis director on the Indian Faculty of Trade, Hyderabad and writer of a number of U.N. local weather stories. “The development of environment friendly early caution techniques, public consciousness campaigns about heat-related hazards, the availability of good enough healthcare amenities, and focused help to inclined populations are just a few steps that want to be taken right away.”

    In Banpur, the paramedic Kumar stocks accommodation in visitor quarters on the medical institution with a number of others. With handiest an previous fan for cooling, he is ceaselessly sweating ahead of his paintings day starts. The ambulance has air con, however it’s “no fit for the temperature outdoor,” Kumar stated.

    He and Naik skip lunches maximum days. Once they to find time, they consume beneath no matter color they may be able to to find. They earn somewhat greater than $150 a month, rarely sufficient to toughen their households given emerging prices. Naik has 3 small children and Kumar sends maximum of his source of revenue to his spouse and oldsters, who are living 350 kilometers away.

    In spite of the hardships, they make the most efficient of what they are saying is a troublesome task.

    “I think happy with my paintings,” Kumar stated. “The extra essential the affected person, the tougher it turns into for us to save lots of their lifestyles. I think glad that I will save lives and lend a hand folks.”

    BANPUR (Uttar Pradesh): Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik’s ambulance tore throughout a dry and rocky geographical region blasted by way of unhealthy noon warmth, speeding to test on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old guy with imaginable warmth stroke. Once they reached the person’s village, Naik’s paramedic spouse guided the guy into the ambulance, then checked his pulse and oxygen ranges as Naik sped again to the general public medical institution.

    With slightly a second to drink some water and splash their faces, the boys had been dispatched once more, this time to select up a pregnant girl who had long gone into hard work because the temperature soared to 43 levels Celsius (109.4 Fahrenheit). And so went any other livid 12-hour shift in India’s increasingly more fatal summer season, when Naik and paramedic Jitendra Kumar from time to time to find themselves hurrying to as many as two times the standard choice of calls.

    Excessive warmth is speedy changing into a public well being disaster in India, with greater than 150 folks death all over the most recent brutal warmth wave in June. Extended warmth waves, from time to time categorized as a slow-onset crisis, are one of the crucial deadliest penalties of world warming that India faces. The federal government estimates just about 11,000 folks have died all over warmth waves this century, but mavens say such figures are most probably an infinite undercount.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Banpur, a village of about 13,000, lies within the most commonly deficient Bundelkhand area deep in India’s inner. It is arid and stony, with little tree quilt to offer protection to folks in one of the crucial country’s freshest areas. Naik and Kumar make up certainly one of two ambulance crews that quilt the village and surrounding house, wearing sufferers to the government-run public well being middle. The state and federal governments lend a hand fund the not-for-profit ambulance carrier, making it a loose lifeline for sufferers.

    “I imagine each affected person my circle of relatives member. I don’t care whether it is sizzling or if I’m hungry, I’m going on a project to get the affected person out and delivery them to the medical institution,” stated Naik, whose handiest coverage from the warmth and dry, sizzling winds is a white cotton towel wrapped round his head. “It’s tough for me riding the car in excessive warmth, however it’s not anything in comparison to the hardships of a affected person in a scientific emergency.”

    Well being mavens say the warmth can kill slowly — and briefly. The short means may well be via easy warmth stroke, whilst a slower dying might end result when individuals who have already got critical well being stipulations undergo via prolonged warmth, stated Dileep Mavalankar, former head of the Indian Institute of Public Well being, Gandhinagar.

    Mavalankar used to be instrumental in creating India’s first warmth motion plan, for town of Ahmedabad in 2013, 3 years after greater than 1,300 folks died all over a warmth wave there. The plan set out tips that incorporated issuing a warmth alert when temperatures rose previous 41 levels Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit), teaching folks equivalent to out of doors laborers, farmers and others uncovered to warmth in regards to the dangers they face, and offering sources to native well being facilities and hospitals to take care of heat-related diseases.

    “When a cyclone occurs, everyone seems to be on alert, they usually act right away however there may be little consciousness or motion to take care of excessive warmth,” Mavalankar stated. “There must be a media blitzkrieg, native governments will have to warn folks to stick indoors and make their hospitals in a position to take care of heat-related circumstances,” he stated.

    Aditya Valiathan Pillai of the Centre for Coverage Analysis, a New Delhi suppose tank, lately studied India’s readiness to reply to extraordinarily sizzling climate. He stated such plans — which come with cooling facilities and well being care help —- are crucial to saving lives.

    Local weather mavens say that warmth waves are right here to stick, and India wishes to organize higher to take care of their penalties. A learn about by way of International Climate Attribution, an educational workforce that examines the supply of maximum warmth, discovered {that a} searing warmth wave in April that struck portions of South Asia used to be made no less than 30 occasions much more likely by way of local weather alternate.

    But poorer areas like Uttar Pradesh, the place Banpur lies, could have a plan on paper however now not the power to hold it out.

    “The inhabitants is inclined as it lacks sources and has inadequate infrastructure to deal with serious temperatures,” stated Anjal Prakash, a analysis director on the Indian Faculty of Trade, Hyderabad and writer of a number of U.N. local weather stories. “The development of environment friendly early caution techniques, public consciousness campaigns about heat-related hazards, the availability of good enough healthcare amenities, and focused help to inclined populations are just a few steps that want to be taken right away.”

    In Banpur, the paramedic Kumar stocks accommodation in visitor quarters on the medical institution with a number of others. With handiest an previous fan for cooling, he is ceaselessly sweating ahead of his paintings day starts. The ambulance has air con, however it’s “no fit for the temperature outdoor,” Kumar stated.

    He and Naik skip lunches maximum days. Once they to find time, they consume beneath no matter color they may be able to to find. They earn somewhat greater than $150 a month, rarely sufficient to toughen their households given emerging prices. Naik has 3 small children and Kumar sends maximum of his source of revenue to his spouse and oldsters, who are living 350 kilometers away.

    In spite of the hardships, they make the most efficient of what they are saying is a troublesome task.

    “I think happy with my paintings,” Kumar stated. “The extra essential the affected person, the tougher it turns into for us to save lots of their lifestyles. I think glad that I will save lives and lend a hand folks.”

  • Police watch as Muslim truck motive force lynched in Bihar’s Saran forward of Eid-ul-Adha

    By means of IANS

    PATNA: A truck motive force used to be lynched through a mob in Bihar’s Saran district overdue on Wednesday night time when they discovered the car used to be wearing bones of animals to a manufacturing unit, police mentioned.

    Truck motive force Jaharuddin, 55, of Majhwalia village below Gaura outpost used to be on how you can Nagara bone mud manufacturing unit within the district.

    Whilst on how you can the manufacturing unit, the car advanced a technical downside at Khori Pakad village below Jalalpur police station, and Jaharuddin and his helper and a few labourers had been seeking to repair them.

    “On the similar time, some native citizens assembled there and requested them in regards to the fabrics weighted down at the truck. Once they responded that the bones of animals are within the truck and it will the manufacturing unit in Nagara, they began beating them,” mentioned Haider, the landlord of the bone manufacturing unit.

    “Whilst the helper and different labourers controlled to escape from the spot, Jaharuddin failed as he used to be having an iron rod put in in his leg and used to be not able to run. The mob brutally beat him till he died at the spot. The native police of Jalalpur additionally reached the spot however they didn’t intrude within the topic. The violent mob blamed the truck motive force for being a Muslim and doing the trade of bones and flesh forward of Eid-ul-Adha,” he added.

    “The helper and different workers had been worried after the way in which Jaharudding used to be lynched. They have got knowledgeable me in regards to the incident,” he mentioned.

    Following the incident, Sadar SDM and the SDPO reached the spot to analyze the topic.

    PATNA: A truck motive force used to be lynched through a mob in Bihar’s Saran district overdue on Wednesday night time when they discovered the car used to be wearing bones of animals to a manufacturing unit, police mentioned.

    Truck motive force Jaharuddin, 55, of Majhwalia village below Gaura outpost used to be on how you can Nagara bone mud manufacturing unit within the district.

    Whilst on how you can the manufacturing unit, the car advanced a technical downside at Khori Pakad village below Jalalpur police station, and Jaharuddin and his helper and a few labourers had been seeking to repair them.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “On the similar time, some native citizens assembled there and requested them in regards to the fabrics weighted down at the truck. Once they responded that the bones of animals are within the truck and it will the manufacturing unit in Nagara, they began beating them,” mentioned Haider, the landlord of the bone manufacturing unit.

    “Whilst the helper and different labourers controlled to escape from the spot, Jaharuddin failed as he used to be having an iron rod put in in his leg and used to be not able to run. The mob brutally beat him till he died at the spot. The native police of Jalalpur additionally reached the spot however they didn’t intrude within the topic. The violent mob blamed the truck motive force for being a Muslim and doing the trade of bones and flesh forward of Eid-ul-Adha,” he added.

    “The helper and different workers had been worried after the way in which Jaharudding used to be lynched. They have got knowledgeable me in regards to the incident,” he mentioned.

    Following the incident, Sadar SDM and the SDPO reached the spot to analyze the topic.

  • Strict motion to be taken towards the ones discovered responsible in bridge cave in: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar 

    Via PTI

    PATNA: An afternoon after the cave in of an under-construction bridge over the Ganga river in Bihar, Leader Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday stated strict motion can be taken towards the ones discovered responsible within the incident.

    He additionally stated the bridge that collapsed on Sunday had additionally caved in final 12 months.

    “The bridge isn’t being built correctly and for this reason it collapsed two times since April 2022. It is a critical topic. The dept involved has already initiated a radical probe into it. Strict motion can be taken towards the ones discovered responsible,” Kumar stated whilst chatting with journalists right here.

    He additionally questioned why the bridge structure paintings that began in 2014 has now not been finished up to now.

    “Why is it operating at the back of the time table? I’ve requested the dept involved to probe this additionally. The deputy CM may be tracking the trends,” Kumar stated.

    The three.16-km bridge being constructed since 2014 collapsed two times in 14 months – first at the Bhagalpur’s Sultanganj facet in April 2022 and the second one time on Sunday night time at the Khagaria facet.

    The incident attracted public outrage, prompting the Leader Minister to reserve an investigation with directions to punish the ones responsible for the crisis.

    In an instant after the incident, Deputy Leader Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who additionally holds the portfolio of the Highway Development Division, on Sunday stated that the state executive used to be making plans to demolish the under-construction bridge as a result of structural flaws.

    “It can be recalled {that a} portion of this bridge had collapsed on April 30 final 12 months. We had, thereafter, approached IIT-Roorkee, which is esteemed for its experience in structure issues, to habits a learn about. It’s but to get a hold of a last document however mavens who had studied the construction had knowledgeable us that there have been critical defects,” Yadav had stated.

    An beneath structure bridge at the river Ganga collapsed in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard @santwana99 %.twitter.com/GhkhlsnQsv

    — Ramashankar Mishra (@ramashankar68) June 4, 2023

    “Closing 12 months, a portion of this bridge have been given away in a thunderstorm, when the BJP used to be in energy within the state. It used to be an incident which used to be extensively mentioned and I strongly raised it in my capability because the then Chief of the Opposition. Upon coming to energy, we ordered an inquiry and sought knowledgeable opinion,” stated Yadav, in an obvious riposte to the BJP, now in opposition, which sought the CM’s resignation over the problem.

    A minimum of 30 slabs put on 3 pillars of the four-lane Sultanganj-Aguani Ghat bridge caved in and fell at the river on Sunday. No casualties have been reported within the incident, the district management stated. The bridge used to be stated to have concerned an estimated value of Rs 1,700 crore.

    A Haryana-based corporate has were given the contract for the development of the bridge, towards which the BJP is now in search of motion.

    The bridge will be the 6th at the Ganga river to attach northern Bihar with its south, decreasing shuttle time to Sultanagnj, Khagaria, Saharsa, Madhepura and Supaul.

    PATNA: An afternoon after the cave in of an under-construction bridge over the Ganga river in Bihar, Leader Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday stated strict motion can be taken towards the ones discovered responsible within the incident.

    He additionally stated the bridge that collapsed on Sunday had additionally caved in final 12 months.

    “The bridge isn’t being built correctly and for this reason it collapsed two times since April 2022. It is a critical topic. The dept involved has already initiated a radical probe into it. Strict motion can be taken towards the ones discovered responsible,” Kumar stated whilst chatting with journalists right here.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He additionally questioned why the bridge structure paintings that began in 2014 has now not been finished up to now.

    “Why is it operating at the back of the time table? I’ve requested the dept involved to probe this additionally. The deputy CM may be tracking the trends,” Kumar stated.

    The three.16-km bridge being constructed since 2014 collapsed two times in 14 months – first at the Bhagalpur’s Sultanganj facet in April 2022 and the second one time on Sunday night time at the Khagaria facet.

    The incident attracted public outrage, prompting the Leader Minister to reserve an investigation with directions to punish the ones responsible for the crisis.

    In an instant after the incident, Deputy Leader Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who additionally holds the portfolio of the Highway Development Division, on Sunday stated that the state executive used to be making plans to demolish the under-construction bridge as a result of structural flaws.

    “It can be recalled {that a} portion of this bridge had collapsed on April 30 final 12 months. We had, thereafter, approached IIT-Roorkee, which is esteemed for its experience in structure issues, to habits a learn about. It’s but to get a hold of a last document however mavens who had studied the construction had knowledgeable us that there have been critical defects,” Yadav had stated.

    An beneath structure bridge at the river Ganga collapsed in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard @santwana99 %.twitter.com/GhkhlsnQsv
    — Ramashankar Mishra (@ramashankar68) June 4, 2023
    “Closing 12 months, a portion of this bridge have been given away in a thunderstorm, when the BJP used to be in energy within the state. It used to be an incident which used to be extensively mentioned and I strongly raised it in my capability because the then Chief of the Opposition. Upon coming to energy, we ordered an inquiry and sought knowledgeable opinion,” stated Yadav, in an obvious riposte to the BJP, now in opposition, which sought the CM’s resignation over the problem.

    A minimum of 30 slabs put on 3 pillars of the four-lane Sultanganj-Aguani Ghat bridge caved in and fell at the river on Sunday. No casualties have been reported within the incident, the district management stated. The bridge used to be stated to have concerned an estimated value of Rs 1,700 crore.

    A Haryana-based corporate has were given the contract for the development of the bridge, towards which the BJP is now in search of motion.

    The bridge will be the 6th at the Ganga river to attach northern Bihar with its south, decreasing shuttle time to Sultanagnj, Khagaria, Saharsa, Madhepura and Supaul.

  • Stuck on Digicam, under-construction bridge collapses in Bihar’s Bhagalpur

    Categorical Information Provider

    PATNA: An under-construction bridge at the river Ganga between Aguvanighat and Sultanganj in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district collapsed on Sunday, with out a casualties reported to this point.

    A video appearing a portion of the under-construction bridge collapsing like a area of playing cards went viral on social media, leaving senior officers of the Nitish Kumar govt red-faced. The section of 3 pillars of the bridge to be constructed at an estimated price of Rs.1700 crore additionally collapsed and fell into the river.

    #WATCH | Below structure Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge in Bihar’s Bhagalpur collapses. The instant when bridge collapsed used to be stuck on video via locals. That is the second one time the bridge has collapsed. Additional main points awaited.

    (Supply: Video shot via locals) %.twitter.com/a44D2RVQQO

    — ANI (@ANI) June 4, 2023

    The bridge, an formidable undertaking of leader minister Nitish Kumar, used to be being built to glue Khagaria with Bhagalpur and its adjacent districts. Senior officers from the district management have rushed to the spot to take inventory of the placement.

    Bhagalpur sub-divisional officer Dhananjay Kumar stated, “A crew of officers has rushed to the web site. Now we have won details about the cave in of a few pillars and segments of the under-construction bridge. As of now, there’s no record of any casualty within the incident.”

    Sultanganj MLA Lalit Kumar Mandal instructed media individuals in Bhagalpur that the cave in of the bridge confirmed the sheer negligence of the engineers and different personnel of the corporate engaged within the structure paintings. “A high-level probe will likely be performed to establish the explanation,” he added.

    Locals, who captured the incident, claimed that the incident came about round 6 pm. Opposition BJP took a dig at Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar after the bridge had collapsed for a 2nd time. The pillar in opposition to Sultanganj in Bhagalpur district had previous collapsed on April 30, 2022.

    “In 2015, Nitish Kumar had inaugurated the bridge. It used to be to be finished via 2020. This bridge has fallen for the second one time. Will Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav renounce instantly, taking cognisance of this incident,” BJP chief Amit Malviya tweeted.

    On being contacted, Bhagalpur district Justice of the Peace Kumar Anurag stated that the bridge slab between pillars numbered 9 and 13 had collapsed. “The rationale in the back of the cave in of the under-construction bridge at the river Ganga will likely be ascertained. A initial investigation has been ordered adopted via a high-level inquiry crew constituted via the state govt,” he added.

    This isn’t the primary time that an under-construction bridge has collapsed within the state.

    In December 2022, a portion of the bridge built on river Burhi Gandak had collapsed in Begusarai district.

    As well as, a employee had died and every other used to be wounded when an under-construction bridge had collapsed in Nalanda, the house district of leader minister Nitish Kumar.

    Previous, two under-construction bridges had fallen in Kishanganj and Saharsa districts, respectively.

    PATNA: An under-construction bridge at the river Ganga between Aguvanighat and Sultanganj in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district collapsed on Sunday, with out a casualties reported to this point.

    A video appearing a portion of the under-construction bridge collapsing like a area of playing cards went viral on social media, leaving senior officers of the Nitish Kumar govt red-faced. The section of 3 pillars of the bridge to be constructed at an estimated price of Rs.1700 crore additionally collapsed and fell into the river.

    #WATCH | Below structure Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge in Bihar’s Bhagalpur collapses. The instant when bridge collapsed used to be stuck on video via locals. That is the second one time the bridge has collapsed. Additional main points awaited.
    (Supply: Video shot via locals) %.twitter.com/a44D2RVQQOgoogletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
    — ANI (@ANI) June 4, 2023
    The bridge, an formidable undertaking of leader minister Nitish Kumar, used to be being built to glue Khagaria with Bhagalpur and its adjacent districts. Senior officers from the district management have rushed to the spot to take inventory of the placement.

    Bhagalpur sub-divisional officer Dhananjay Kumar stated, “A crew of officers has rushed to the web site. Now we have won details about the cave in of a few pillars and segments of the under-construction bridge. As of now, there’s no record of any casualty within the incident.”

    Sultanganj MLA Lalit Kumar Mandal instructed media individuals in Bhagalpur that the cave in of the bridge confirmed the sheer negligence of the engineers and different personnel of the corporate engaged within the structure paintings. “A high-level probe will likely be performed to establish the explanation,” he added.

    Locals, who captured the incident, claimed that the incident came about round 6 pm. Opposition BJP took a dig at Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar after the bridge had collapsed for a 2nd time. The pillar in opposition to Sultanganj in Bhagalpur district had previous collapsed on April 30, 2022.

    “In 2015, Nitish Kumar had inaugurated the bridge. It used to be to be finished via 2020. This bridge has fallen for the second one time. Will Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav renounce instantly, taking cognisance of this incident,” BJP chief Amit Malviya tweeted.

    On being contacted, Bhagalpur district Justice of the Peace Kumar Anurag stated that the bridge slab between pillars numbered 9 and 13 had collapsed. “The rationale in the back of the cave in of the under-construction bridge at the river Ganga will likely be ascertained. A initial investigation has been ordered adopted via a high-level inquiry crew constituted via the state govt,” he added.

    This isn’t the primary time that an under-construction bridge has collapsed within the state.

    In December 2022, a portion of the bridge built on river Burhi Gandak had collapsed in Begusarai district.

    As well as, a employee had died and every other used to be wounded when an under-construction bridge had collapsed in Nalanda, the house district of leader minister Nitish Kumar.

    Previous, two under-construction bridges had fallen in Kishanganj and Saharsa districts, respectively.

  • Street to 2024: Assembly of opposition events to be held in Patna on June 12

    Specific Information Carrier

    PATNA: A far-awaited assembly of Opposition events to chalk out technique to counter the BJP forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is about to be held in Patna on June 12. Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar will chair the assembly.

    Nitish hinted on the proposed assembly of Opposition events to be held within the state capital on June 12 whilst talking at the concluding day of the two-day conclave of the JD(U) administrative center bearers in Patna on Sunday.

    Kumar, the JD(U)’s supremo, has been pitching for “opposition solidarity” ever since he snapped ties with the BJP in August remaining yr, following accusations that the best friend used to be looking to create fissures in his celebration and diminish his status. Leaders from a number of events have thanked him at the instance and favored his step.

    “We have now been running for Opposition solidarity ever because the grand alliance govt used to be shaped in Bihar. The sure results of our efforts for uniting Opposition events towards BJP can be visual quickly,” he asserted.

    He mentioned the date of the assembly has been finalised after session with leaders from Opposition events around the nation. On Might 22, Nitish had referred to as on Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi.

    On the joint press convention, each Rahul and Nitish had mentioned that the date of the assembly of Opposition events could be finalised in two-three days. The leaders of over two dozen non-BJP events will attend the assembly.

    Previous, Nitish had met his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamta Banerjee, Samajwadi Birthday party leader Akhilesh Yadav, Nationalist Congress Birthday party leader Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Jharkhand Leader Minister Hemant Soren and leaders from the Left events.

    As a part of the “opposition solidarity” force, Kumar has held parleys with no longer simplest Congress allies like Uddhav and Pawar but additionally its combatants like Telangana CM Okay Chandrasekhar Rao.

    A gathering with Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, ostensibly to hunt land for a Bihar govt visitor space in that state, is being utilized by BJP to mock Kumar because the Biju Janata Dal supremo has just about dominated out becoming a member of any broader formation.

    In truth, the speculation of webhosting a gathering of opposition leaders in Patna used to be floated by means of Banerjee, who had invoked the reminiscence of Jayaprakash Narayan upon assembly Kumar in Kolkata remaining month.

    All eyes would now be on which events comply with be represented within the assembly, given faultlines like Congress’ distrust of Kejriwal and KCR and Banerjee’s famed competition with the Left.

    (With further inputs from PTI)

    PATNA: A far-awaited assembly of Opposition events to chalk out technique to counter the BJP forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is about to be held in Patna on June 12. Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar will chair the assembly.

    Nitish hinted on the proposed assembly of Opposition events to be held within the state capital on June 12 whilst talking at the concluding day of the two-day conclave of the JD(U) administrative center bearers in Patna on Sunday.

    Kumar, the JD(U)’s supremo, has been pitching for “opposition solidarity” ever since he snapped ties with the BJP in August remaining yr, following accusations that the best friend used to be looking to create fissures in his celebration and diminish his status. Leaders from a number of events have thanked him at the instance and favored his step.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    “We have now been running for Opposition solidarity ever because the grand alliance govt used to be shaped in Bihar. The sure results of our efforts for uniting Opposition events towards BJP can be visual quickly,” he asserted.

    He mentioned the date of the assembly has been finalised after session with leaders from Opposition events around the nation. On Might 22, Nitish had referred to as on Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi.

    On the joint press convention, each Rahul and Nitish had mentioned that the date of the assembly of Opposition events could be finalised in two-three days. The leaders of over two dozen non-BJP events will attend the assembly.

    Previous, Nitish had met his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamta Banerjee, Samajwadi Birthday party leader Akhilesh Yadav, Nationalist Congress Birthday party leader Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Jharkhand Leader Minister Hemant Soren and leaders from the Left events.

    As a part of the “opposition solidarity” force, Kumar has held parleys with no longer simplest Congress allies like Uddhav and Pawar but additionally its combatants like Telangana CM Okay Chandrasekhar Rao.

    A gathering with Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, ostensibly to hunt land for a Bihar govt visitor space in that state, is being utilized by BJP to mock Kumar because the Biju Janata Dal supremo has just about dominated out becoming a member of any broader formation.

    In truth, the speculation of webhosting a gathering of opposition leaders in Patna used to be floated by means of Banerjee, who had invoked the reminiscence of Jayaprakash Narayan upon assembly Kumar in Kolkata remaining month.

    All eyes would now be on which events comply with be represented within the assembly, given faultlines like Congress’ distrust of Kejriwal and KCR and Banerjee’s famed competition with the Left.

    (With further inputs from PTI)

  • Ex-MP Monazir Hasan quits JD(U), accuses best management of forget

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    PATNA: Patna: Ruling Janata Dal (United) in Bihar gained a setback following the resignation of a senior chief and previous MP Monazir Hasan from the principle club of the celebration on Sunday.

    Hasan informed media individuals that he has despatched his resignation letter to the celebration’s nationwide president and MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh. A duplicate of the letter has additionally been despatched to JD(U) supremo and Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar.

    He stated that folks like him weren’t of a lot significance to JD(U) and that is why various devoted employees of the celebration have been being omitted through the best management.

    Hasan additionally remarked that posts throughout a number of government-run organisations supposed for the welfare of minority communities have been mendacity vacant for years in combination. The previous MP alleged that folks from minority communities have been on the receiving finish within the state.

    The leaders of the grand alliance, together with JD(U) and RJD, have exploited them through appearing worry of the BJP. As well as, the minority neighborhood has now not been given due illustration within the authorities, he claimed.

    He cited the instances of many leaders from minority communities who’ve been sidelined through best leaders of the ruling grand alliance within the state. The so-called MY (Muslim-Yadav) mixture was once used as a vote financial institution through RJD, he added.

    Hasan’s resignation can have an adversarial have an effect on at the efficiency of JD(U) within the Munger area. He had gained 4 instances from the Munger meeting constituency seat, which comes below Munger Lok Sabha.

    The Munger Lok Sabha seat is lately represented through Lalan Singh.

    As well as, Hasan had additionally previous gained from Munger Lok Sabha seat. He was once additionally appointed as a minister two times.

    “He’s an influential chief of the Munger area. His go out from the JD(U) will have an effect on the Lok Sabha election to be held subsequent yr,” stated a JD(U) chief, regarded as on the subject of him.

    Hasan alleged that some leaders of JD(U) have been liable for the deficient display of the celebration within the 2020 meeting polls. “Those leaders, regarded as on the subject of Nitish Kumar, are ruining the celebration,” he alleged.

    PATNA: Patna: Ruling Janata Dal (United) in Bihar gained a setback following the resignation of a senior chief and previous MP Monazir Hasan from the principle club of the celebration on Sunday.

    Hasan informed media individuals that he has despatched his resignation letter to the celebration’s nationwide president and MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh. A duplicate of the letter has additionally been despatched to JD(U) supremo and Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar.

    He stated that folks like him weren’t of a lot significance to JD(U) and that is why various devoted employees of the celebration have been being omitted through the best management.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Hasan additionally remarked that posts throughout a number of government-run organisations supposed for the welfare of minority communities have been mendacity vacant for years in combination. The previous MP alleged that folks from minority communities have been on the receiving finish within the state.

    The leaders of the grand alliance, together with JD(U) and RJD, have exploited them through appearing worry of the BJP. As well as, the minority neighborhood has now not been given due illustration within the authorities, he claimed.

    He cited the instances of many leaders from minority communities who’ve been sidelined through best leaders of the ruling grand alliance within the state. The so-called MY (Muslim-Yadav) mixture was once used as a vote financial institution through RJD, he added.

    Hasan’s resignation can have an adversarial have an effect on at the efficiency of JD(U) within the Munger area. He had gained 4 instances from the Munger meeting constituency seat, which comes below Munger Lok Sabha.

    The Munger Lok Sabha seat is lately represented through Lalan Singh.

    As well as, Hasan had additionally previous gained from Munger Lok Sabha seat. He was once additionally appointed as a minister two times.

    “He’s an influential chief of the Munger area. His go out from the JD(U) will have an effect on the Lok Sabha election to be held subsequent yr,” stated a JD(U) chief, regarded as on the subject of him.

    Hasan alleged that some leaders of JD(U) have been liable for the deficient display of the celebration within the 2020 meeting polls. “Those leaders, regarded as on the subject of Nitish Kumar, are ruining the celebration,” he alleged.

  • Day after Patna HC keep, Lalu asks why BJP scared of caste survey

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    PATNA:  Even because the Bihar executive on Friday filed a assessment petition within the courtroom of Leader Justice Patna Top Courtroom, KV Chandran towards the intervening time order handed by means of a department bench on Thursday striking a keep on a caste-based survey within the state, RJD leader Lalu Prasad mentioned that it might happen because it was once the call for of a majority of the folk. 

    The state executive has additionally asked the manager justice to listen to the assessment petition on precedence and cast off it within the subsequent 15 days because the courtroom could be closed for summer time holiday. Resources mentioned the federal government is getting ready to transport SC to problem the intervening time order of the HC. The federal government contended that over 80% of survey paintings has already been carried out and the remainder was once in growth. It had proposed to spend Rs 500 crore on all the workout for the good thing about the deficient. 

    RJD leader and previous leader minister Lalu Prasad attacked the BJP announcing that it was once scared of caste-based survey. “I feel the saffron birthday celebration is scared of caste census. However it is going to happen as it’s the call for of a majority of the folk within the nation,” he mentioned, alleging that now other people have understood BJP’s manoeuvring. 

    PATNA:  Even because the Bihar executive on Friday filed a assessment petition within the courtroom of Leader Justice Patna Top Courtroom, KV Chandran towards the intervening time order handed by means of a department bench on Thursday striking a keep on a caste-based survey within the state, RJD leader Lalu Prasad mentioned that it might happen because it was once the call for of a majority of the folk. 

    The state executive has additionally asked the manager justice to listen to the assessment petition on precedence and cast off it within the subsequent 15 days because the courtroom could be closed for summer time holiday. Resources mentioned the federal government is getting ready to transport SC to problem the intervening time order of the HC. The federal government contended that over 80% of survey paintings has already been carried out and the remainder was once in growth. It had proposed to spend Rs 500 crore on all the workout for the good thing about the deficient. 

    RJD leader and previous leader minister Lalu Prasad attacked the BJP announcing that it was once scared of caste-based survey. “I feel the saffron birthday celebration is scared of caste census. However it is going to happen as it’s the call for of a majority of the folk within the nation,” he mentioned, alleging that now other people have understood BJP’s manoeuvring. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

  • Patna HC remains Bihar government’s caste survey, says state has no energy to hold out the census

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    PATNA: The Patna Top Court docket on Thursday ordered a keep at the caste survey being carried out through the state govt.

    Listening to a number of petitions, a department bench of Leader Justice Ok Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad directed the federal government to in an instant forestall the caste-based survey, and make certain that the knowledge already accrued are secured and no longer shared with any one until ultimate orders are handed.

    The courtroom fastened July 7 as the following date for the listening to.

    “We’re of the regarded as opinion that the petitioners have made out a prima facie case in opposition to the continuation of the method of caste-based survey, as tried through the State of Bihar. There may be the query raised of information integrity and safety which needs to be extra elaborately addressed through the State,” the courtroom mentioned.

    “Prima facie, we’re of the opinion that the State has no energy to hold out a caste-based survey, within the way by which it’s shaped now, which might quantity to a census, thus impinging upon the legislative energy of the Union Parliament,” it added.

    ALSO READ | Can Bihar’s caste survey turn out a headache for PM Modi?

    Expressing worry, the courtroom famous the federal government’s goal to proportion information from the survey with the leaders of various events within the state meeting.

    “There for sure arises the bigger query of the best to privateness, which the Excellent Court docket has held to be a side of the best to existence,” it mentioned.

    The primary spherical of caste surveys in Bihar was once carried out between January 7 and 21.

    The second one spherical began on April 15 and was once meant to proceed until Might 15.

    The petitions sooner than the prime courtroom was once filed through a social outfit and a few folks, who had closing month moved the Excellent Court docket after their request for an ‘meantime aid’ within the type of a keep at the survey was once grew to become down.

    The apex courtroom refused to intervene as neatly and referred them again to the prime courtroom with instructions that their petition be made up our minds expeditiously.

    Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has maintained that the state isn’t engaging in a caste census however most effective accumulating knowledge associated with folks’s financial standing and their caste in order that particular steps might be taken through the federal government to serve them higher.

    PATNA: The Patna Top Court docket on Thursday ordered a keep at the caste survey being carried out through the state govt.

    Listening to a number of petitions, a department bench of Leader Justice Ok Vinod Chandran and Justice Madhuresh Prasad directed the federal government to in an instant forestall the caste-based survey, and make certain that the knowledge already accrued are secured and no longer shared with any one until ultimate orders are handed.

    The courtroom fastened July 7 as the following date for the listening to.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “We’re of the regarded as opinion that the petitioners have made out a prima facie case in opposition to the continuation of the method of caste-based survey, as tried through the State of Bihar. There may be the query raised of information integrity and safety which needs to be extra elaborately addressed through the State,” the courtroom mentioned.

    “Prima facie, we’re of the opinion that the State has no energy to hold out a caste-based survey, within the way by which it’s shaped now, which might quantity to a census, thus impinging upon the legislative energy of the Union Parliament,” it added.

    ALSO READ | Can Bihar’s caste survey turn out a headache for PM Modi?

    Expressing worry, the courtroom famous the federal government’s goal to proportion information from the survey with the leaders of various events within the state meeting.

    “There for sure arises the bigger query of the best to privateness, which the Excellent Court docket has held to be a side of the best to existence,” it mentioned.

    The primary spherical of caste surveys in Bihar was once carried out between January 7 and 21.

    The second one spherical began on April 15 and was once meant to proceed until Might 15.

    The petitions sooner than the prime courtroom was once filed through a social outfit and a few folks, who had closing month moved the Excellent Court docket after their request for an ‘meantime aid’ within the type of a keep at the survey was once grew to become down.

    The apex courtroom refused to intervene as neatly and referred them again to the prime courtroom with instructions that their petition be made up our minds expeditiously.

    Leader Minister Nitish Kumar has maintained that the state isn’t engaging in a caste census however most effective accumulating knowledge associated with folks’s financial standing and their caste in order that particular steps might be taken through the federal government to serve them higher.

  • SC to listen plea difficult untimely unencumber of convict-neta Anand Mohan

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    NEW DELHI: The Ideal Courtroom on Monday agreed to listen to on Would possibly 8 a plea difficult the Bihar govt’s determination to upfront unencumber former MP Anand Mohan who used to be serving a existence time period within the 1994 homicide case of then Gopalganj district Justice of the Peace G Krishnaiah.

    A bench of Leader Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala stated it might absorb the subject on Would possibly 8 after the recommend showing for Uma Krishnaiah, the widow of slain the officer, sought an pressing listening to.

    Mohan used to be launched from the Saharsa prison on April 27 following an modification in Bihar’s jail laws.

    The petitioner has contended the existence imprisonment awarded to the gangster-turned-politician intended incarceration for his whole herbal process existence and it can’t be robotically interpreted to remaining simply 14 years.

    ALSO READ | From coolie to IAS officer: Pals, relatives recall slain Krishnaiah’s fight

    “Existence imprisonment, when awarded as an alternative to demise penalty, must be performed strictly as directed via the courtroom and could be past software of remission,” she stated in her petition prior to the Ideal Courtroom.

    Mohan’s identify figured in a listing of greater than 20 prisoners who had been ordered to be set unfastened via a notification issued via the state’s regulation division previous this week as that they had spent greater than 14 years in the back of bars.

    The remission of his sentence adopted an April 10 modification to the Bihar Jail Guide via the Nitish Kumar govt wherein the restriction on early unencumber of the ones concerned within the killing of a public servant on responsibility used to be completed away with.

    This, the critics of the state govt’s determination declare, used to be completed to facilitate the discharge of Mohan, a Rajput strongman, who may upload heft to the grand alliance led via Nitish Kumar in its struggle towards the BJP. A number of others, together with politicians, benefited from the modification to the state jail laws.

    Krishnaiah, who hailed from Telangana, used to be overwhelmed to demise via a mob in 1994 when his car attempted to overhaul the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla in Muzaffarpur district. Mohan, then an MLA, used to be main the procession.

    ALSO READ | Convict Anand Mohan, strongman of Saharsa eyeing new innings in Bihar politics? 

    NEW DELHI: The Ideal Courtroom on Monday agreed to listen to on Would possibly 8 a plea difficult the Bihar govt’s determination to upfront unencumber former MP Anand Mohan who used to be serving a existence time period within the 1994 homicide case of then Gopalganj district Justice of the Peace G Krishnaiah.

    A bench of Leader Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala stated it might absorb the subject on Would possibly 8 after the recommend showing for Uma Krishnaiah, the widow of slain the officer, sought an pressing listening to.

    Mohan used to be launched from the Saharsa prison on April 27 following an modification in Bihar’s jail laws.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The petitioner has contended the existence imprisonment awarded to the gangster-turned-politician intended incarceration for his whole herbal process existence and it can’t be robotically interpreted to remaining simply 14 years.

    ALSO READ | From coolie to IAS officer: Pals, relatives recall slain Krishnaiah’s fight

    “Existence imprisonment, when awarded as an alternative to demise penalty, must be performed strictly as directed via the courtroom and could be past software of remission,” she stated in her petition prior to the Ideal Courtroom.

    Mohan’s identify figured in a listing of greater than 20 prisoners who had been ordered to be set unfastened via a notification issued via the state’s regulation division previous this week as that they had spent greater than 14 years in the back of bars.

    The remission of his sentence adopted an April 10 modification to the Bihar Jail Guide via the Nitish Kumar govt wherein the restriction on early unencumber of the ones concerned within the killing of a public servant on responsibility used to be completed away with.

    This, the critics of the state govt’s determination declare, used to be completed to facilitate the discharge of Mohan, a Rajput strongman, who may upload heft to the grand alliance led via Nitish Kumar in its struggle towards the BJP. A number of others, together with politicians, benefited from the modification to the state jail laws.

    Krishnaiah, who hailed from Telangana, used to be overwhelmed to demise via a mob in 1994 when his car attempted to overhaul the funeral procession of gangster Chhotan Shukla in Muzaffarpur district. Mohan, then an MLA, used to be main the procession.

    ALSO READ | Convict Anand Mohan, strongman of Saharsa eyeing new innings in Bihar politics? 

  • Bihar: 40-year-old guy marries minor lady after mom defaults in repaying debt

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    PATNA: Police on Sunday arrested a 40-year-old guy for marrying a minor lady and holding her in his space as a 2nd spouse after the woman’s mom allegedly didn’t pay off a mortgage to the song of Rs 2 lakh.

    The accused Mahendra Pandey, a resident of Laxmipur village below Mairwa police station in Siwan district, has been booked below the related phase of the Kid Marriage Act and Coverage of Kids from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

    The lady’s oldsters had reportedly taken Rs 2 lakh as a mortgage from Pandey. The circle of relatives was once not able to pay off the mortgage.

    “The circle of relatives succumbed to Pandey’s power and despatched the woman with him in lieu of mortgage,” native citizens mentioned.

    Pandey was once produced ahead of the manager judicial Justice of the Peace, who remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. 

    The sufferer has been despatched for clinical exam as she was once staying with Pandey for the remaining 3 months.

    Station space officer (SHO) of Mairwa police station Ujjawal Kumar mentioned the observation of the woman can be recorded below phase 164 of CrPC. 

    “We have now despatched the woman to sadar clinic clinic in Siwan for clinical exam,” he informed The New Indian Specific over telephone.

    Police acted after the woman’s mom lodged a grievance. Consistent with the grievance, accused Pandey had persuaded the circle of relatives to stay the category VI scholar with him at the pretext of facilitating her research however secretly married her.

    A video in regards to the kid marriage had long past viral on social media.

    The sufferer’s father is a day by day salary earner. The couple have 4 kids—two daughters and two sons.

    The accused is said to be relative of the sufferer’s circle of relatives.

    The lady’s oldsters had reportedly taken Rs.2 lakh as mortgage from Pandey. The circle of relatives was once not able to pay off the mortgage. “The circle of relatives succumbed to Pandey’s power despatched the woman with him in lieu of mortgage,” native citizens mentioned.

    Right through interrogation, Pandey confessed to the crime and mentioned that he was once in a position to stand felony motion for the offence.

    PATNA: Police on Sunday arrested a 40-year-old guy for marrying a minor lady and holding her in his space as a 2nd spouse after the woman’s mom allegedly didn’t pay off a mortgage to the song of Rs 2 lakh.

    The accused Mahendra Pandey, a resident of Laxmipur village below Mairwa police station in Siwan district, has been booked below the related phase of the Kid Marriage Act and Coverage of Kids from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

    The lady’s oldsters had reportedly taken Rs 2 lakh as a mortgage from Pandey. The circle of relatives was once not able to pay off the mortgage.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The circle of relatives succumbed to Pandey’s power and despatched the woman with him in lieu of mortgage,” native citizens mentioned.

    Pandey was once produced ahead of the manager judicial Justice of the Peace, who remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. 

    The sufferer has been despatched for clinical exam as she was once staying with Pandey for the remaining 3 months.

    Station space officer (SHO) of Mairwa police station Ujjawal Kumar mentioned the observation of the woman can be recorded below phase 164 of CrPC. 

    “We have now despatched the woman to sadar clinic clinic in Siwan for clinical exam,” he informed The New Indian Specific over telephone.

    Police acted after the woman’s mom lodged a grievance. Consistent with the grievance, accused Pandey had persuaded the circle of relatives to stay the category VI scholar with him at the pretext of facilitating her research however secretly married her.

    A video in regards to the kid marriage had long past viral on social media.

    The sufferer’s father is a day by day salary earner. The couple have 4 kids—two daughters and two sons.

    The accused is said to be relative of the sufferer’s circle of relatives.

    The lady’s oldsters had reportedly taken Rs.2 lakh as mortgage from Pandey. The circle of relatives was once not able to pay off the mortgage. “The circle of relatives succumbed to Pandey’s power despatched the woman with him in lieu of mortgage,” native citizens mentioned.

    Right through interrogation, Pandey confessed to the crime and mentioned that he was once in a position to stand felony motion for the offence.