Sep 25, 2011
PATNA: World Bank is learnt to have finally made up its mind to give the second tranche of soft loan worth $621 million (Rs 2,818 crore) to the state government to take up flood protection and irrigation-related schemes. The soft loan, however, has been put in the...
Sep 24, 2011
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS): In Bihar, two and a half days of floods have been turned into a two-and-a-half-month-long affair so that the politics over relief continues, says one of India’s leading river researchers. Read...
Jun 1, 2011
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has written to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to take up the issue of dredging work in Kosi river with the government of Nepal ahead of the arrival of monsoon in flood-prone region. “In the recent past, Kosi has been one of the...
Dec 11, 2009
PATNA: After having suffered the worst onslaught of the Kosi river which flooded large swathes of land mass of the Kosi region after breaching its embankment at Kusaha in 2008, the people of the Kosi region are now being flooded with development projects. The Chief...
Dec 11, 2009
NEW DELHI: The Manmohan Singh government on Friday buckled under sustained pressure from the JD(U)-BJP members when it announced in Parliament that the Bihar government will not have to return Rs 1,000 crore provided as relief for river Kosi flood victims. Read...
Sep 2, 2009
PATNA: After wrecking havoc in many districts of Bihar for the past one week, the Kosi showed some signs of easing on Monday with the water level receding in five north-eastern districts, following reduction in discharge in the river. Chief minister Nitish Kumar said...
