Patna DM to confiscate property of IAS officer: a 2007 case of disproportionate assets!   Patna: according to press reports, after the Patna High Court rejected the petition of suspended IAS officer S.S. Verma challenging the vigilance court’s order to confiscate his property, the Patna district magistrate has been asked by the Bihar government to start the process of confiscation of the property in question. The government intends to start a school on the confiscated property. When this happens, Verma’s house in Patna will be the first one to be transformed into a school. The Patna... 

Prashant Kumar explores Dharhara while shooting his documentary A remote village in Bhagalpur, celebrates the birth of a girl child by planting 10-15 mango trees. The people of Dharhara village have been doing it for generations. These trees not only take care of education of the girl child but also the marriage, which is a costly affair for villagers. Women are respected here and are very confident. And the girls are married only after getting their Bachelors or Masters degree… It sounded very romantic and unbelievable fairy tale to me…I could not believe this, when I was asked...