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Indian Army jawan Chandan Kumar (26) was killed in a terrorist ambush in J&K's Poonch district. Four soldiers, including Chandan, lost their lives and three others were wounded in the ambush. Chandan had joined the Army in 2017 and had returned to his unit just a month ago. His mortal remains will be flown to Patna and then escorted to his native village. The villagers plan to erect a memorial in his honor.

A powerful blast that occurred near the idgah of ward number 18 in Gondapur locality of Nawada town on Monday night reduced the front portion of a building to rubble. The sound of the explosion was so loud that it could be heard from a distance of 1km.

Devotees visiting Gaya this year during ‘Pitripaksh’ would be performing ‘tarpan’, from clean water of sacred Falgu river.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday visited the famous Kakolat waterfalls in Nawada district to oversee the beautification work he had ordered during his last visit to the tourist spot in December 2018.

A day after the Nawada administration offered help to a physically challenged two-year-old girl who was born with eight limbs, comprising four hands and four legs, into an impoverished Mahadalit family at Hemda village under the Warsaliganj police station area in the district, actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood on Saturday came to the rescue of the girl.

The water of the Ganga was lifted at Hathidah Ghat in Mokama and brought to Motnaje water treatment plant in Nawada district through a pipeline as a trial run for the ambitious Ganga water lift project on Tuesday.

After successful trial of the Ganga water lift project up to Nawada on Saturday, chief minister Nitish Kumar would review its progress in Gaya on Tuesday. The Ganga water reached up to Nawada from Hathidah in Patna via Nalanda.

Water supply under the Ganga Water Lift Project (GWLP) is likely to start by May 30 this year to many households in Gaya and Bodh Gaya, as around 94% work is near completion.

At least two persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in a group clash that broke out between people from two different communities over a petty dispute on throwing a cricket ball in Mirzapur locality under Town police station area in Nawada Thursday evening.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Friday visited famous Kakolat waterfalls in Nawada district to oversee the beautification works he had ordered during his last visit to the tourists’ spot in December 2018.

CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday visited several villages facing flood-like situation in Nalanda, Nawada and Patna districts. He interacted with the villagers and issued necessary instructions to the officials for solving their problems. The flood-like situation emerged due to overflowing of the local rivers after cyclone-induced heavy rain in the last two days.

Flood like situation has been created in many villages of the three districts due to overflowing of the local rivers after cyclone-induced heavy rains in their catchment areas in the last two days.

District administration on Friday asked engineers of the Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (BUIDCO) to expedite and complete the pending pipeline laying work by July 15.

The count of suspected hooch deaths in Nawada has risen to eight with four more people dying between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

The spike in Covid-19 cases has forced several districts to either enforce lockdown or restrictions in the coming days. While Patna DM has imposed lockdown from July 10 to 16 and Bhagalpur district administration for four days from Thursday, Nawada administration will keep the district under lockdown for three days from July 10 to 12.

Nawada Town police station SHO TN Tiwari and Budhaul village chowkidar Vikash Kumar Mishra have been suspended for dereliction of duty over the 16 suspected hooch deaths in the district since Holi on Monday. The official death figure is 15.

Altogether 11 persons have died allegedly due to hooch poisoning in Nawada, Begusarai and Rohtas districts in the ‘dry’ state since Holi on Monday. Police, however, did not confirm any hooch death and were probing the incidents.

Five cyber frauds were among six arrested from two different places in Nalanda late Saturday evening.

The sign of second wave of coronavirus has started showing in Bihar with 662 more people, including 287 in Patna alone, testing positive for the virus in the past 24 hours on Friday.

The state government would further upgrade infrastructure at the Patliputra Interstate Bus Terminal (ISBT) at Mauza Pahadi on Patna-Gaya road to accommodate more buses in future. Around 15 acres of land will be acquired on the southern, northern and western sides of the bus terminal to increase parking space and boost other facilities.

CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday asked the DMs of different AES-affected districts to follow Muzaffarpur model of positive interventions and take all necessary steps to save children from the acute encephalitis syndrome.

With 610 new cases on Saturday, Gaya is gradually emerging as a Covid hostpsot in south Bihar. It is among the top three districts in terms of active cases. According to the state health department bulletin, there were 3,590 active cases in the district.

The Patna high court on Wednesday directed the special court to submit a report on how much time it will take to complete the trial in the minor girl's rape case in which Nawada MLA Rajballabh Yadav is an accused.