A Welder from East Champaran, Bihar Innovates to reduce Carbon emission and Sound pollution. The Innovator runs welding shop and uses Diesel Engine based Generator for operating welding machine. The generator used by the innovator emitted a lot of flue gases and also produced unwanted noise, the noise used to create problem to kids studying in School near by his shop. To solve this problem, the innovator retrofitted a cylindrical container to the exhaust pipe of the engine. The specific arrangement of different types of fins in the cylinder filters out the particulates and allows... 

Randomness... Randomness by Nimita Pandey Bihar Connects…INDIA Amidst the Foggy clog, the cab drove me out of the Indira Gandhi Domestic Airport Terminal towards the whims and fancies of Karol Bagh, a settlement in Delhi. While the cold winds oozed through the windows, I broke the minutes-long silence and asked: “Haan to Bhaiya, kahan ke hain aap?” The cab driver, with great hesitation uttered: “Madam, hum Bihar se hain, Vaishali district!” I was glad; there was no sense of amazement, as it has not happened for the first time. During many trips to New Delhi, I have encountered lot... 

Ghoora- Fireside tales By Ratnaker Tripathy Ratnatar Tripathy-Ghoora-Fireside tales Nitish vs Nitish: the dilemma of development In my earlier piece on Nitish’s bumper victory in Bihar, I was perhaps beginning to lose sight of the runway in a thick fog of hope. Let me make some course corrections here. In the spirit of the Ghoora [fireside] column, allow me to share my worries after sharing my hopes with you. My first worry is ourselves – the educated, the intelligentsia, or the intellectuals, whatever you choose to call ourselves – people with ideas who speak and write Hindi and/or... 

Manish Kumar- The Invisible hand The Invisible Hand by Manish Kumar Higher Education reforms: Challenges and Prospects There is an urgent need to carry out reforms in the higher education sector. India’s gross enrollment ratio at 12.4 percent is well below the world average of 23.2 percent and the developed countries average of 54 percent. There are 370 districts in the country with GER less than the national average! We never fail to mention that we had only twenty universities and five hundred colleges at the time of independence and now we have around 378 universities and 18000 colleges.... 

More than 3000 libraries closed…anybody interested… more than 3000 libraries shut in the state... Bihar is facing a situation where more than 3,000 village libraries have been shut due to lack of funds these libraries have been gradually shutting since last 20 years and now number is alarming 3000. If one were to go by the guidelines of Planning Commission, it suggests one village library for a population of 1,000. If one looks at the Bihar statistics it is dismal one village library for a population of 90,000. The new refined Panchayati Raj envisages setting up of one library in... 

MOU signed for power project in Bhagalpur In a major boost for Bihar power sector, Ganga Power and Natural Resources (GPNR) Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bihar State Electricity Board (BSEB) for setting up a super critical thermal power project (2×660 MW) at Pirpainty in Bhagalpur district. According to MOU, the plant will start generating power from 2014. The MOU was signed by GPNR CMD and director in the presence of BSEB chairman P K Rai. The power project has qualified for long term coal linkage. The Central Electricity Authority ( CEA) has sent a recommendation... 

A tribute to Rajendra Prasad (यशेन्द्र जी के सहयोग से) आज देशरत्न राजेन्द्र बाबू का जन्म-दिन है. उन्ही के एक  मित्र थे योगेन्द्र प्रसाद ‘योगी’* जिन्होंने 1938 में उनपर यह कविता लिखी थी. यह आज भी उतनी  ही प्रासंगिक है. देशरत्न ( 1 ) कौन हमारी ज्योति प्रभा... 

Ghoora- Fireside- tales By Ratnaker Tripathy Nitish, the “Listener” wins This piece will try to throw light on the political style of our chief minister Nitish Kumar. The common view which even I fully agreed with till last week is that Sushasan is what solely brought him back to power. Indeed, this is no general talk. People are certainly feeling increasingly secure and this security cannot be imaginary. Travel durations in several parts of Bihar have been cut at least by twenty five per cent. There is a clear relation between the creation of the category of Mahadalits,... 

Ghoora – Fireside Tales Ghoora- Fireside Tales Bihar days takes pride in  announcing a regular column by Ratnaker Tripathy, called Ghoora-Fireside Tales, the column will appear exclusively only on Bihar days every Wednesday. Ghoora in several Bihari dialects means a circle of men around the fireside, a place for storytelling under the starry skies. This weekly column by Ratnakar Tripathy will analyze selected stories of the week. By stories we often mean fairy tales, epics and legends. But stories are also the stuff of print and TV journalism, of the law courts where verdicts are... 

By Nimita Pandey CAT, MAT…and now CSAT?? An Introspection of the present schema to that of the past… With months-long contemplation and all formal considerations, the Union Public Service Commission finally declared the much awaited Syllabus of the Civil   Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) for selecting Indian administrative officials. With the dawn, on 18th October 2010, the remarkable day in the Indian History was set forth, sufficing the initiation of the ending of the British administrative system. The readers might take this note with astonishment and bewilder on the relevance...