10th June: Bihar tourism website in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German and… Patna: according to a recent report, the Tourism Department in Bihar will carry information on its website in a number of languages targeted at a wide range of tourists – Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and German, and more. So far the web site content has been available only in English. Bihar also attracts tourists from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Tibet and Taiwan and these visitors’ needs will be catered to very soon. According to official sources, the IT Manager of BSTDC will launch the updated site on June 10. Bihar... 

The Patliputra Tirth  is situated at Patna in Bihar State.  The temple is managed by a trust called Shri Patna Jain Shwetambar Mandir Trust and is dedicated to the Jain god Bhagvan Vimalnath Swami.  The ancient, beautiful idol of Bhagvan Vimalnath Swami, nearly 60cm high, is white in colour and seated in the Padmasan posture.  Patna city is important to the Jains because many prosperous Jains and saints lived in this city during the ancient times.  The present day city of Patna was Kusumpur in ancient times. It was settled by Udayan, a follower of the Jain religion, in memory of his...