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With five fresh casualties, Covid-19 death toll reaches 68 in Bihar

The death toll in Bihar rose to 68 with five more fatalities in the last 24 hours, while the state's tally inched towards the 10,000-mark with 370 fresh cases reported, health department said.

West Bengal, Bihar lag behind in distribution of free grains and pulses

Data shows that Bihar is entitled to distribute 50,655 tonnes of pulses in April, May and June, however, it has received much less and hence the distribution is also slow

Bihar sees highest single-day spike of 394 Covid-19 cases; tally at 9,618

Bihar on Monday reported 394 coronavirus cases, its highest single-day spike, pushing the infection tally to 9,618, while the death toll rose to 63, the state health department said.

Bihar on high alert over possible terrorist intrusion through Nepal border

Bihar Special Branch has issued high alert to all districts in the state after a warning was issued regarding possible terrorists from Taliban and Jaish-e-Mohammad entering state through Nepal border.

Bihar cancels 2 bridge companies contracts for having Chinese partners

The contractors were asked to change their partners before the cancellation of the contracts, but they couldn't

Coronavirus daily updates: Bihar death toll climbs to 62; tally at 9,224

Bihar on Sunday reported four more Covid-19 fatalities, taking its death toll due to the disease to 62 in the state, while the number of cases shot up to 9,224 with 245 fresh ones

Coronavirus daily update: Bihar records 300 new cases, two more deaths

Bihar witnessed a huge hike in Covid-19 infections on Saturday, with 301 people testing positive for the virus; two more fatalities pushed the state's death toll to 58

Coronavirus daily update: With 190 fresh cases, Bihar tally rises to 8,678

Bihar registered 190 fresh coronavirus cases on Friday, taking the Covid-19 count in the state to 8,678, health department officials said

Amit Shah expresses condolences over death of people due to lightning in UP, Bihar

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday expressed his condolences over the death of over 100 people in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar due to lightning. "I am extremely saddened by the death of many people in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar due to heavy rain and lightning. Relief work is going on fast in both the states. "I express my condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives in this disaster and wish the injured to be well soon," the home minister tweeted. Thunderstorms and lightning have wrought havoc in Bihar over the past two days, claiming 83 lives, leaving many injured and causing widespread damage to property, the state disaster management department said. In Uttar Pradesh, at least 24 people were killed and 12 others injured on Thursday due to incidents of lightning in various districts of the state.

Covid-19: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand yet to transfer cash to workers

So far, states have transferred around Rs 5,000 crore, which is merely 16 per cent of the total cess funds of Rs 31,000 crore accumulated through the collection of cess from employers.

PM launches rural job scheme for migrant workers in poll-bound Bihar

As many as 32 districts of total 38 in Bihar are included under the scheme

Xi, Premier Li disagree over role of street vendors in post-Covid-19 China

Li Keqiang openly addressed employment concerns and praised street vendors for creating jobs

SC issue notices to UP, Bihar on plea alleging bonded labour in brick kilns

It said that on May 8, three complaints were filed before the NHRC alleging that 187 persons were being exploited for illegal bonded labour in the brick kilns

Workers going from one state to another are not 'migrants': Nitish Kumar

People who have returned from other states do not need to leave because of helplessness, the chief minister says

Covid-19: Helping rural Bihar and UP get free vouchers to buy green power

Smart Power India (SPI), an initiative of Rockefeller Foundation, has begun a voucher system for power consumers in 32 villages of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Covid-19 Factoid: Now, India has become the most affected Asian country

While India's addition of over 7,000 cases in a day was thrice the average daily number at the start of this month, Bihar saw its tally growing by 38 times during the month of May

India records over 6,500 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hrs, death toll at 4,167

Confirmed cases surge past 145,000; fatality rate down from 3.3% to 2.87%

Job creation top on Nitish's mind as scores of migrants return to Bihar

At Lingampally, the 226 passengers, all labourers, were welcomed by ministers and officials of the Telangana government

Covid-19 crisis: States urge PM Modi to extend lockdown but relax norms

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier this week asked the states to send suggestions on their respective strategies for lockdown 4.0, which comes into force from Monday.

14 home-bound migrant workers killed in two road accidents in MP

In one of the incidents, eight Uttar Pradesh-bound migrant workers were killed and nearly 55 injured when the truck they were travelling in collided with a bus