Climate change is real: Heatwave to hit Bihar litchi, mango farmers

Litchi and mango need special micro climates; but climate change has upset this in the last decade, say scientists

AES in Bihar: Muzaffarpur officials focus on preventing outbreak rather than providing treatment later

The administration in Muzaffarpur and it neighbouring districts are rushing with last-minute efforts to prevent AES, as summer starts to peak

Culling of chickens and ducks underway after bird flu confirmed in Bihar’s Supaul

The administration had sent samples for testing after the deaths of various birds was reported in the village of Chhapkahi in the last week of March

No diesel-run buses and auto rickshaws in Patna from April 1

State government in no mood to extend the deadline to ban diesel vehicles that had been extended for two years due to COVID-19

Border, forest officials seize live pangolins, deer horns on Bihar-Nepal border

The pangolins were seized from the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in West Champaran district; the deer horns were found in Araria district

बिहार में यूरिया की भारी कमी और कालाबाजारी से किसान परेशान

किसानों का आरोप है कि रबी के मौसम में उपजे इस संकट के लिए �…

Bihar’s first floating power plant in Darbhanga to be commissioned soon

The floating power plant will meet two goals at a time: Producing green energy from solar panels and promoting fish farming underwater

Acute urea shortage, black marketing upset farmers during ongoing rabi season in Bihar

Farmers blame powerful nexus of traders and government officials for fertiliser shortage

Green action: Four arrested in Bihar for cutting down dozens of trees near major hospital

Trees were being felled and sold to timber traders for many months near Muzaffarpur’s SKMCH hospital, according to reports

Bihar not testing enough despite surging COVID-19 cases, official data shows

Bihar government has not focussed on ramping up testing despite its claims to the contrary, say activists

COVID-19: Did IMA meet lead to hundreds of doctors in Bihar testing positive

Out Patient Department and other healthcare services affected in Bihar due to sheer number of infections among doctors, say reports

Myth of coverage: How India’s flagship health insurance scheme failed its poorest during pandemic

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) provided cushion to only 14.25% people hospitalised for COVID-19

Residual pandemic: After effects of COVID-19 pervasive in India, thousands living with new ailments

Around 51 per cent of those who had milder forms of the disease also developed long COVID

Residual pandemic: How India is battling long COVID

There is a huge number of people who have defeated COVID-19, but continue to suffer its debilitating long-term effects

Bihar plans to sterilise, not cull, nilgais

State government plans to sterilise 5,000 nilgais in 2022, says Bihar forest minister 

Prolonged protests in Bihar over acute fertiliser shortage during rabi sowing season

Protests had also erupted in the state during kharif season earlier this year due to shortage of urea.   

Bihar residents ‘getting COVID-19 second dose’ — months after their death

Residents of Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, Sheikhpura districts received text messages saying their kin — who died of COVID-19 months ago&…

Heavy rains in Bihar, starting from June, waterlogged litchi orchards, killing trees

Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district along with its neighbours, accounts for nearly 40% of India’s litchi production

Bihar defers tendering for sand block operators after NGT order

The state floated the tender on the basis of an invalid district survey report, says NGT

Heavy rains damage paddy crop in Bihar’s Seemanchal and Kosi regions

Standing crops have been damaged in about 663,776.28 hectares due to floods, excessive rains and waterlogging this year

Bihar to give subsidy to farmers who could not cultivate crops due to waterlogging

It has approved Rs 550 crore for farmers whose standing crop was damaged this monsoon season

Medical waste incineration plant in Bihar’s Sone river bed faces public flak

The waste generated from 98 industrial units across Bihar will be transported to the proposed unit for burning, posing health risks to …

Bihar to start conservation programme for endangered blackbucks

A 12-acre rescue centre for the antelopes has been envisioned in the district for the purpose

Arsenic now in wheat, potato — and more than that in drinking water — in rural Bihar

Groundwater contaminated with arsenic is extensively used for irrigation and finds its way into the food chain 

Bihar man dies of swine flu in Patna hospital

Bihar has been grappling with COVID-19 and viral fever; On September 10, a 58-year-old man died of swine flu in Patna