Bihar News

The turnaround in the growth of Bihar, one of India's poorest and most populous states, was at the centre of a panel discussion at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE). A new collection of essays titled "The ...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved a proposal to provide financial support of Rs. 2727.10 crore to Nalanda University over a period of 12 years from 2010-11 to 2021-22. The salient features of the financial support ...

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has announced the dates for Class 12th examinations 2014. Usually, BSEB organise its Annual Secondary Examinations in the month of February/ March and its Supplementary School Examinations in the month of August/ September. Like ...

A Hindu trust in Bihar plans to set up the world's first Ramayan University in the state's Vaishali district. "We have decided to set up a Ramayan University that will function as an advanced centre of research on Ramayan," ...

The revived Nalanda University, an international centre of learning coming up in Bihar, is taking a small but positive step towards launching operations from later this year. The first batch of students, faculty and staff are to move by February-end to ...

University Grants Commission, has issued a new directive to all the universities and colleges of Bihar, asking them to apply for National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) by 1st June, 2014. If any college or university fails to do so, UGC ...

Due to the changes made in the basic structure of UPSC Syllabus, first in 2011 and then in 2013 have immensely affected the number of non-English medium candidates appearing in the civil services examinations. As per the data, the number ...

Thousands of students of Magadh Mahila College - a prestigious city women's college - took to the streets in the Bihar capital Monday to protest a government move to block the main entrance of their college to facilitate the construction of ...

Recently released Education Development Index (EDI) reveals that again south states are roaring high and loud this year too. There is a big development leap between the two sides of the country. While the south side continued their march ahead with ...

Impressed with development in Bihar, France has expressed its desire for greater engagement with the eastern state, particularly in education. French Ambassador to India Francois Richier expressed the wish at a meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here. The ...

Authorities at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the Bihar capital are shocked that over 90 percent of applicants for teachers' posts at the institute did not have the mandatory MBBS degree, an official said Saturday. The Bachelor ...

Bihar has published the service records of nearly 3.5 lakh teachers at 70,000 government schools online, officials Wednesday said. "It is a first such move to put service records of 3.42 lakh teachers of primary and middle schools online," said R.S ...

The government of Bihar has decided to pull in their experienced staff back in to the field of education. The government will recruit the retired teachers in all subjects for middle and high school on contract basis without pension. Teachers up ...

More than 10,000 contractual school teachers in Bihar have failed a competency test, officials said Tuesday. The test was held last month to review the teachers' ability to teach. "A total of 24 percent teachers have failed the competency test. ...