Saurabh from Bihar wins under-9 national chess championship in Bhubaneshwar Patna: according to press reports, Saurabh Anand of Bihar won the 25th National under-9 chess championships that concluded in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. This was Saurabh’s Independence Day gift to his state. A boy from Purnia, Saurabh also won in the Commonwealth Games this year. Saurabh finished strongly with five victories in a row to win the Open event with nine wins and two defeats. He won the championship after 11 rounds of the game with altogether 135 participants.  Ram Arvind from Tamilanadu and Rudraksha Parida... 

Downgrading of US’s credit rating has a Jharkhand connection: Deven Sharma, president, S&P Mumbai: countries all over the world are still recovering from the big shock – when the credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s removed the aura of its top-notch triple-A credit rating from the US last Friday, the core professional behind the decision was Deven Sharma, a man originally from Ranchi, Jharkhand. This disturbing decision received much criticism from U.S. Treasury officials who complained there was no justification for it and claimed a $2 trillion error in S&P’s... 

Chanakya National Law University: ‘Investment Rs 100 crore-result 80 unemployed’? Patna: according to a series of highly disturbing reports in the press, the prestigious Chanakya National Law University in Patna has failed to ensure placement of its students. Ten of its first batch of 80 final year students has even sat on a hunger strike since Monday. ‘Investment Rs 100 crore, results 80 unemployed’, the placard displayed at the site of the hunger strike puts the case of the students quite tellingly. It appears that ‘not even a single company has visited the campus till date’,... 

World Sparrow Day, 20th march: the tiny bird is having a tough time surviving Lucknow:  in an initiative taken by the UP State Biodiversity Board, citizens in UP have been encouraged to send reports on their ‘sparrow count’ for the day on 20th March, which also happens to be the World Sparrow Day (WSD). The purpose behind this is to make the citizens aware of not just sparrows as such but also sparrows as indicators of the environmental damage and change. The day’s count may begin early in the morning at 7 AM and last for half an hour till 7.30 and the observed numbers may be sent... 

What does ‘equal educational opportunities’ for marginalized children mean? By Subir Shukla While it is a matter of common sense that children are not homogenous, the diversity among them is clearly disadvantageous to some children more than others. Typically these are children from the more marginalized groups of society – whether girls, linguistic or ethnic minorities, working children, disabled children, those from migrant groups, and other such disadvantaged groups. They are disadvantaged by a number of factors, prime of which seems to be that the requirements of the education... 

The Key voting themes of  Bihar 2010 Patna: Five key themes dominated the recently concluded election in Bihar. The  overall voter turnout was 52.4% , up from the 46.8% in the last Assembly elections. Voters defied Naxal threats, crossed rivers by engaging private boats and hired tongas in the absence of normal transport to cast their vote in this election, says journalist Santosh Singh. Higher turnout of women, EBCs, SCs : Women voters turned up in more numbers as is  evident from the Election Commission figures : 54.8% turnout of women against 50.7% in the case of men. In all six phases,... 

Fifty two percent voting in overall Assembly Polls   Over 52 per cent polling has been reported in the overall assembly elections in Bihar for 243 seats. Briefing media, the Chief Election Commissioner S. Y. Qureshi said that 52.43 votes were polled in all the six phases. He said that in today’s sixth and final phase nearly 51 per cent votes were polled.   Qureshi said that elections have been by and large very peaceful. He said that the incidents of violence in these elections were much less than in the previous elections. He said that only 25 incidents were reported in all the... 

DESTINATION JHARKHAND:  HAPPENING SOON  ?  ”In Jharkhand wonders don’t lie in museums; they live and breathe around you” has been the official slogan coined by the state government to promote tourism.  However, even a decade  after Jharkhand was created, tourism is yet to take off in a big way despite the state having some of the country’s best scenic spots, rich wildlife and magnificent waterfalls, not to speak of serene towns like Deogarh and Netarhat, says a report in the Financial Express.  Tourism minister Bimla Pradhan said, ”Part of the problem... 

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