Almost all districts are affected by floods in Bihar. Those areas falling under the high to very high flood risk are concentrated in the districts of East Champaran, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Saharsa, Sitamarhi, Madhubani and Khagaria. In the period between 1998 to 2009, 26.09 per cent of the total land area of 94.16 lakh hectares was […]
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Update on October 25, 2016 Since October 14, a total of 64 birds have been found dead across Delhi due to Avian flu. More than 50,000 samples from the various birding sites in Delhi have been sent to research labs for analysis. Some of the dead birds showed symptoms of the ‘Ranikhet disease’. If that is the case, authorities say, […]
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Anybody with basic political awareness is fairly well acquainted with the location and administrative functioning of states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Most of you may also be residing in cities like Patna, Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain etc. But have you ever imagined that the above mentioned cities and […]
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Two recent earthquakes struck Bihar in April and May 2015. The first of these occurred on April 25, 2015 at 11:56 am Nepal Standard Time (NST) at a depth of approximately 15 km. Initially reported as 7.5 moment magnitude (Mw) by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) it was quickly upgraded to 7.8 Mw minutes […]
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