Bihar govt to reward people fighting corruption!

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Press Trust Of India / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 23, 2011 at 06:11pm IST.

 

Patna: As the Union Government and Team Anna slug it out over the Lokpal issue, Bihar has taken a cue from Maharashtra in rewarding people who help unearth corruption in the state.

"The government has decided to reward upto Rs 50,000 to those who will help trap public servants while taking bribe or highlight authentic cases of embezzlement of funds," Deputy Chief Minister SK Modi told on Tuesday.

"We have also made provisions for rewarding public prosecutors and investigation officers for successful handling of cases related to confiscation of property of corrupt people," he said.

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NAXAL MENACE: Maoists kill 3 Bihar tribals in revenge!

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August 1, 2011 / By ANAND S.T. DAS, Correspondent, Patna / DC.

The Maoists gunned down three tribal villagers and set afire a former mukhia’s house in Bihar’s Rohtas district late on Saturday evening reportedly in retaliation of the recent murder of one of their top commanders by a rival Maoist faction.

While unconfirmed reports put the number of dead in Banda village under Nauhatta police station at five, Bihar DGP Neelmani said on Sunday that “only three villagers” of the Kharwar tribe were killed in the firing by the Maoists and that three bodies were recovered in the morning. Former mukhia (village council head) Sugrib Kharwar’s house was set afire by the rebels by using kerosene.

“Massive combing operations have been launched jointly by the state police and paramilitary forces. Senior officials are at the spot monitoring the situation,” said Neelmani. Tension prevails in the village and surrounding areas since the time of the murders.

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BIHAR LAND SCAM: Land given to tractor firm part of scam: RJD!

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August 1, 2011 / By ANAND S.T. DAS, Correspondent, Patna / DC.

The alleged industrial land “scam” in Bihar became wider and murkier on Sunday with the Opposition RJD accusing the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government of allotting land belonging to a state-owned sick PSU to a private tractor manufacturer at a significantly lower price and under questionable circumstances.

Citing the transfer of land of the Fatuha-based Bihar Scooters Limited (BSL) to the Sonalika Group’s tractor manufacturing arm, International Tractors Limited (ITL), in 2009 as an “indisputable instance of gross wrongdoing” by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA), senior RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui reiterated his party’s demand for a CBI probe into all industrial land allotments in Bihar executed since 2007.

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BIHAR LAND SCAM: Sets off blame game!

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• July 21, 2011 
• By ANAND S.T. DAS 
• Correspondent 
• Patna / DC.

The alleged land scam in Bihar involving allotment of prime industrial plots to relatives of ruling NDA politicians and top officials set off fierce political blame games on Wednesday with the Opposition parties MLAs demanding chief minister Nitish Kumar’s resignation and a probe into the land allotments by the CBI.

While the Cabinet ministers and NDA politicians under a cloud for the alleged irregularities denied any wrongdoing, Mr Kumar’s order for a probe by the chief secretary instead of his making an elaborate statement on the allegations in the Assembly was dubbed by the Opposition parties — the RJD, LJP, Congress and the Left parties — as a ploy to eventually bury the scam. The Opposition RJD’s leaders took to Patna’s streets to burn Mr Kumar’s effigies and said they would intensify agitations unless a CBI probe was swiftly ordered.

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LAND SCAM: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in the dock over land allotment!

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CNN-IBN / Updated Jul 19, 2011 at 02:00pm IST.

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is under fire for allotting prime real estate in Bihar to relatives of government officials and ministers. IBN7 first exposed the scam unfolding in the Bihar Industrial Development Authority (BIDA).

According to the IBN7 report, Urvashi Sahi, daughter of Bihar's Education Minister PK Sahi has been allotted 87,120 sq ft of land belonging to Bihar Industrial Development Authority.

Rehmat Fatima, daughter of high profile IAS officer and Chief Secretary of the Irrigation Department Afzal Amanullah has also been allotted 87,120 sq ft of land belonging to the state industrial development authority.

Rahul Kumar, son of JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma has been allotted land for setting up a priavte factory near Hajipur.

Son of BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal has been given land in Forbesganj, the place where four farmers had died as their land was being acquired.

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BIHAR FLASH FLOODS: Nearly 100 villages flooded, rivers rising!

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Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: July 02, 2011 17:48 IST.

Patna:  Hundreds of people in Bihar have been forced to abandon their homes as flood waters entered nearly 100 villages and rising levels of most rivers threatened to inundate many others, officials said on Saturday.

All the inundated villages were in flood-prone districts of Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, Purnia, Araria, Saharsa, Madhepura and Bagaha, officials said.

"Water entered these villages after levels rose in all the major rivers following heavy rains in the state and the catchment areas of Nepal," a water resource department official said.

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NAXAL MENACE: Maoists disguised as police kill six Indian villagers!

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SATURDAY, 02 JULY 2011 12:52 / http://www.brecorder.com

PATNA: Suspected Maoist guerrillas disguised in police uniforms slaughtered six residents of a remote village in eastern India on Saturday, officials said.

The rebels attacked the village in Munger district in poverty-hit Bihar state and shot dead the six men, senior police official Neelmani, who uses one name, told AFP.

Speaking in Bihar state capital Patna, the police official said five of the villagers were killed on the spot while the sixth died later from his wounds.

On one hand they claim they represent the interests of the poor villagers and tribals and on the other hand they slaughter the same defenseless and innocent poor villagers and tribals!

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INDIAN ORGANIC FARMING: Bihar to promote organic farming: Nitish Kumar!

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Source: IANS / Last Updated 19:54(22/06/11) / http://daily.bhaskar.com.

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said his government will help farmers adopt organic farming for sustainable agriculture and prosperity.

Inaugurating a three-day International Conference on Organic Agriculture with Focus on Horticulture Crops in Bihar, Nitish Kumar said that the state was at the threshold of a "rainbow revolution".

"The roadmap of this revolution will have to take care of the needs of the future by keeping environment and human life safe and also resulting in prosperity to farmers," he said.

The chief minister said it was high time that organic farming was widely adopted.

"The indiscriminate use of pesticides is affecting human health and also the environment.

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Thunder, duststorms claim 56 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar!

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TNN | May 19, 2011, 12.04pm IST


NEW DELHI: At least 56 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar when severe duststorm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers, lashed some parts of the states on Wednesday evening, according to All India Radio.

In Uttar Pradesh, at least 30 people were killed in cyclonic storm that hit several districts of eastern UP. Eight people were killed in Siddhartha Nagar, seven in Jaunpur, five each in Varanasi, Bhadohi and Ambekarnagar.

According to AIR, high-velocity wind and scattered rain is still occurring at some places in Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Basti divisions.

Eight members of a marriage party were killed when a tree, uprooted by a fierce duststorm, fell on their jeep in Siddhartnagar district in Uttar Pradesh, PTI reported. 


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