A S the Indian Airlines aircraft descended on Patna on a rainy day last fortnight, I could identify almost all the landmarks of the city - the meandering Ganga, the sprawling Gandhi Maidan, Hotel ...

It must have been a proud moment for the Catholic Church when the foundation stone for the St. Peter's Church was laid on the "roof of the world" on July 29. The Press note issued by the Catholic ...

RANCHI : It’s a kind of story we normally get on the celluloid – a story about greedy, self-indulgent politicians and the deprived lot. In Jharkhand, there exist various accounts of Mr Babulal Marandi ...

"Aagaya ain ladai mein waqte-namaz Qiblaru hoke zamin-bos hui qaum-e-hejaz Ek hi saf mein khade ho gaye Mahmood-o-Ayaz Na koi banda raha aur na koi banda-nawaz (In the midst of raging battle if the ...

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The author, a product of B.I.T Sindri, is an information technologist and an expert in system analysis and management, presently working in Australia.In this article, he makes a psychological study of ...

In the light of ongoing structural changes and consequent changing contours of rural economy as a whole the nature and pattern of migration has been also changing over time. Accordingly, the concept ...

Poverty is an insult said Mahatma Gandhi, Poverty stinks. It demeans, dehumanizes, and destroys the body and the mind…if not the soul. It is the deadliest form of violence." Yet we are continuing to ...

Shri Bibhuti Bikramaditya, Chairman, Bihar brains(www.biharbrains.org) and overseas coordinator of NRI meet to be held in Bihar was in Patna today and apart from holding the meeting of the local ...

Politics and movies make cosy bed-fellows in India. But when bhai-infested Bollywood begins serenading Laloo Prasad Yadav, lawless Bihar's discredited supremo, you could say the synergy's really on.

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A senior journalist & Patna based special correspondent of The Statesman.