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... 

Shanti, a giraffe at Patna zoo gives birth to a female calf! Patna: according to reports, a few days ago, Shanti, a giraffe at the Patna zoo gave birth to a healthy female calf. A few months ago, Srishti, another giraffe at the zoo had lost her baby soon after birth. The Patna zoo officials are being especially watchful this time round to ensure the healthy growth of the baby giraffe. The zoo authorities have separated the male giraffe named Vikas from the mother and the calf, so that the newborn gets all the attention from Shanti. According to Patna zoo doctor Ajit Kumar ‘The calf is in... 

Come September: …and Patna will get a night life to talk about Patna: now that the days and nights have become safer in many parts of Bihar, it is perhaps time to do something about the ‘life’ at night. With a climate like Bihar’s, it is especially important that people should have more opportunities for entertainment and just plain ‘hawakhori’ as in the olden days when the urban rich went out to shoot the breeze once the summer sun set. The bihar government is now considering a number of moves to enliven the long evenings in Bihar – there are now concrete plans to develop a...