These projects covering a length of 1,264 km in different districts of Bihar will be executed by four agencies, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC), National Hydro-Electric Power Corporation (NHPC) and National Project Construction Corporation (NPCC),' the statement said.

The NHPC has been assigned two road projects covering 13.32 km in the East Champaran district, estimated to cost Rs.54.56 million.The remaining 25 projects have been assigned to NPCC. Covering 217.18 km in Bhojpur, Kaimur, Patna and Rohtas districts, the cost of these projects has been estimated to be Rs.708.48 million.

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The plan of greater Patna under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urbanization Scheme comes with a price tag of whopping Rs. 500 crore and includes plan for an overall beautification of the capital with emphasis on tourism, Choubey said.

"We are going to establish a system in which the people of Patna will have as much input in the redesigning of the city as much as the concerned experts and bureaucrats," the minister said adding there will be a complete ban on posters and graffiti on public walls, particularly dirty movie posters that deface the entire city giving it a look of a giant ghetto.

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“The Bihar administration was considered to be one of the best in India by Paul Appleby in the fifties, but Bihar is now synonymous with everything that could be called bad about administration.” This is another such quote from a journalistic piece and I needn’t name the author.

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Reaching out to the rural masses has always a problem. The government is now making sincere efforts to provide telecom access in the rural areas. Towards this, about 5.5 lakh villages out of 6 lakh have already been provided with telephone connectivity. The remaining 42,000 villages will be provided with village public telephones (VPT) by November 2007. This data shows the results-oriented approach and the serious efforts of the government to reach out to rural India.

Impressed by their astonishing success rate, the team will stay in Bihar for next several days during which it will interview all 28 successful candidates, their mentors, and the teaching methodology used by the institute that nearly guarantees success in the IIT entrance test.

He went on to complete his MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) in 1998. Our man holds 25+ international certifications from various institutions. He was rated No.1 Windows Networking Consultant by All Experts.com and Info Rocket Inc, USA in 2001. He started his own company (Infogate Exporters Pvt.Limited) at the age of just 18. The Company is into developing softwares for overseas clients(http://www.infogatesoftware.com/).

Sudhir started www.bhojpuria.com in October 2005 with a mission to promote Bhojpuri as a language and as a culture, in just a span of less than 8 months; the website has attracted Millions of visitors across the globe.

The mission of the website is to take Bhojpuri to the every person in this world and give its dues as a global language.

Sudheer says " Respect your language and Culture, and the world will respect you", I learnt this in China, when I returned, i knew what i need to do, and i did the same.

As true and humble Bihari Sudheer acknowledges his success to Shashi Singh (Editor-in- Chief,Bhojpuria.com), Neeraj Chaturvedi (Chief, Singapore Operations, Bhojpuria.com), Sailesh Mishra (Chief, US Operations, Bhojpuria.com), his parents, his family members and all the Bhojpuria people in this world for making Bhojpuria.com a huge success. Cool Bihari wishes him all the very best and Great Success in the days to come.

"He told me about shooting his next film based on his own novel Lala in India because the main character hails from a place located near the Bihar-UP border.

Pointing out that Scapagnini's novel entitled "The story of Lala" has been published by Penguin, Modi said it had been translated in Bengali with the title "Lalu Gap".

"There was absolutely different condition in Bihar earlier. But now a sense of change is clearly visible and we want to extend a helping hand in the process of development by investing Rs 2,000 crore over the next three years in the fields of agriculture, health, education and revival of co-operative institutions," Nabard chief YSP Thorat told reporters after meeting chief minister Nitish Kumar.

The Bihari Brothers, Jules, Joe, Lester and Saul, formed the base of one of the most influential r&b labels in pop history. Counted among the artists who recorded for Modern are John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Hadda Brooks, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lowell Fulson, B.B. King, Etta James and Ike Turner, among others.

Located in L.A.'s Watts district, the label actually grew out of brother Jules' frustration with distributors. He ran a jukebox concession in the black neighborhoods and grew increasingly frustrated by the fact that he couldn't get enough copies of hit records. So much so that, along with his other brothers, he decided to form a label.

Their first release was by a young female piano player named Hadda Brooks. Soon after the enterprising brothers bought a pressing plant and had a full staff of workers wich included producer Lester Sill. The brothers also divided tasks among them equally with Saul handling manufacturing and Jules taking production chores.

Throughout the years, the Bihari's consistently showed the talent and tenacity to stay ahead of the current trends, discovering, producing and releasing some of the best work of the genre. In 1975 Saul died, leaving his three bothers to continue the company. In recent years, however, Modern has mainly relied on its back catologue and "glory days" for revenue.

Jules Bihari was the eldest of the four Bihari Brothers (Jules, Saul, Joe and Lester), who are best known for founding Modern Records.

Bihari grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a large Jewish family of Hungarian descent. He later moved to Los Angeles - as did his brothers - in 1941, and got a job servicing and operating jukeboxes in black neighbourhoods

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At a meeting between representatives of the Union Ministry and the State Health Department, held in New Delhi on May 29, it was decided to launch a pilot project in Bihar to augment the state’s health facilities. Confirming the development, Health Minister Chandra Mohan Rai told HT that, in all likelihood, the project would be launched by late July.

As planned, one village (with a population of 5,000 to 10,000 persons) in each district will initially be adopted for a thorough medical check-up by the specialists. If needed, the patients would be transported to medical college hospitals for further treatment.

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China is today the largest producer of engineering graduates in the world, with some 600,000 passing out of its colleges and universities last year.

As per this Rediff article “According to the All India Council for Technical Education, India produced 401,791 engineers in 2003-04, 35 per cent being computer engineers. In 2004-05, the number of engineering graduates increased to 464,743, of which 31 per cent were computer engineers.

Compared to India and China, the United States produces only 70,000 engineering graduates every year. All of Europe produces just 100,000.

With more that 50% of Bihar population in the age group of less than 30 years we are actually on a point where either we can make great strides or the situation will get more chaotic

Some of the things which really augur well for Bihar are:

Despite the decline in overall growth and development we have continued to invest and excel in the field of education. Students of Bihar have traveled miles for even basic college /graduate level education.

We are as a society always committed to academic achievements and results from all national level competitions shows that the performance of Bihar students is remarkable despite the obvious shortages on infrastructure front.

Lets just hope that we are able to tap this potential and change the fortunes of Bihar .If India has to challenge and retain its competitive advantage in the field of IT in the days to come it's time Bihar plays a critical role in having a pool of competent Trained Manpower Resource, which is able to not only fill the required positions but also helps in changing the fortunes of the country and State.

We are also seeing the growth of small tier -II cities and towns scaling upto the global requirements.The increased demand and pressure on existing Urban cities means that we have to develope small centres of excellence.

Given the nature of IT industry which is not geography centric(it's a flat world) but based on talent availability and cost ,I think we just need a small momentum to shape the future.Senior professionals in the Industry feel that we really need to tap the existing manpower in these states.

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Bihar is among the 24 new sites selected by the Centre for exploration. An area of 15,550 sq km, spread over 13 districts, has been awarded to the two companies for exploration.

Meanwhile, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd raised hopes of a 2,000 MW nuclear plant in the power-starved state. Announcing that the state had been told a team of engineers would be visiting soon to carry out preliminary work, Bihar’s Energy Minister Bijeyndra Yadav claimed the Centre had given an in-principle okay to the state demand for a nuclear power plant.

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A six-member delegation from the state led by Chief Secretary G S Kang has returned with a number of investment promises from the diaspora after attending the Asia conference at Stanford University.

The international university was so impressed with the paper — ‘Challenges and Opportunities in Bihar’ — presented at the conference by the delegation that it has decided to hold a ‘mirror conference’ in Patna in March 2007.

This conference of international repute organised in India at different points of time by the university will be held for the first time in the state. Chief Secretary Kang termed it as a great achievement for the state and said the conference would further boost the state’s changing image. The university was also considering publishing the paper presented by Bihar, Kang said.

Two leading lights in the IT sector there — Mihir Choudhary and Ravi Verma — have promised to set up software development offices in Patna within a month. Similarly, another NRI, Jay Dhar Gupta — president of STAT Nurses International — has promised to open a nurses training institute in Bihar to meet the acute shortage of nurses in the US. The Chief Secretary said to begin with the institute would train 500 nurses from Bihar for migration and the numbers would be increased in the future.

Earlier, NHAI officials were directed that the alignment of national highway should be done in such a manner that a minimum number of families are displaced.

Under the directions given, the officials of NHAI presented a new alignment for the widening of the Chapra-Hajipur highway in which 43 km out of a total length of 64 km of highway is being converted into a bypass. As a result of this, villages including Permanandpur, Naya Gaon, Bindchak, Sheetalpur, Nizamchak Basti, Jalalpur, Digwara, Aami Bypass, Chapra Bypass, Govindpur etc., will not be affected and will result in the reduction of the number of families displaced.

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HT reports that “Thanks to the efforts of the ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA), the Muslim family's origins were traced to Biharsharif, a small town in Nalanda district.

The Trinidad family approached the ministry last month in the wake of a special drive launched by the ministry called "Tracing the Roots" for people of Indian origin (PIOs) abroad.

The ministry had deputed Chandrasekhar Tiwari on the job. Tiwari camped in Biharsharif for a week and after painstaking research, found out relatives of the Trinidad family.

This family's case is not an isolated one. A large number of people from Bihar travelled to various parts of the world in the 19th century to serve as indentured labour on sugarcane and rubber plantations.

Large numbers are settled in Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad, Suriname and elsewhere. Many are eager to locate the families of their forefathers in India.The ministry has received several requests from PIOs to trace their origins in Bihar in the last two months.

There are over two million PIOs in the Caribbean islands - over 500,000 in Trinidad and Tobago, around 400,000 in Guyana, over 60,000 in Jamaica and over 2,000 in Barbados.

Mauritius is home to 700,000 PIOs while over 300,000 PIOs live in Fiji.

In view of the widespread diaspora, the Bihar government launched a special tourism package last year called Root Tourism aimed at those people of Bihari origin who might have a desire to retrace their roots and visit their native villages.

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‘At Basel there will be paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs and editions as well as video and digital art by over 2,000 artists. The full spectrum of modern and contemporary art will be represented: from the great masters of modern art to the latest generation of artists. I am part of ‘Art Unlimited’ which looks at monumental installations,’ Gupta told IANS.

The Basel Art Fair opens June 14 at Messeplatz and will feature about 300 leading art galleries from 30 countries on all continents.

In his sculptures and installations, he traverses the distance from his rural origins in Bihar to the world beyond by using forms and products of everyday India out of their rural utilitarian context.

“Disha", a two-day interactive-cum-virtual campus recruitment session was organised by Bihar Brains at Patna Science College. The students were given tips on how to face interview and group discussion, which is essential for anyone aspiring for entry into the corporate world.

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An increased conviction rate since January this year has brought some major relief to senior police officials.

Statistics for the month of May show that as many as 82 people were sentenced to life imprisonment within a month of committing heinous crimes in the state.

In April, 120 persons were convicted in cases under the Arms Act, as compared to 110 criminals convicted in the month of March, under different cases. 267 persons had been convicted in cases under different sections of the IPC, 162 persons had been sentenced in cases under the Arms Act in May alone. While 34 persons were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for over 10 years, 317 persons had been awarded less than 10 years imprisonment by different courts in the state.

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