A senior journalist & Patna based special correspondent of The Statesman.

Patna: Six year old Gangiya from Kangyav village in Shivsagar block [Rohtas District] was sick for a long time and too weak to walk. The local doctor prescribed medicines but nothing seemed to work.

Measuring poverty is a challenging and complicated task because poverty itself is complex and multidimensional. Although conventional income and consumption based measures are essential for poverty ...

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A new chapter is opened in annals of the history of Jharkhand with the emergence of Chala Ho Goan Mein – the weekly community radio program aired on AIR – Daltonganj in Palamau district of Jharkhand.

In the light of ongoing structural changes and consequent changing contours of rural economy as a whole the nature and pattern of migration has been also changing over time. Accordingly, the concept ...

They were mesmerised by the dancers in dazzling costumes, swaying to the music at the magnificently decorated theatre. It was the ‘Alkazar Show’, a stage performance, which attracts huge crowds at a ...

O ne of the longest persisting surprises among the intelligentsia has been the relative political stability in Bihar inspite of what appears day after day in all forms of media that Bihar is ...

The author is The Statesman’s Patna-based Special Representative. To escape the heat and humidity of the plains of Bihar, we headed for the snow-capped mountains. The cool breeze lifted our spirits as ...

Away from the usual limelight unlike other new age gurus and clad in non saffron dress of common man without any high flying touch , wheather a physical affliction or a social blight, a popular ...

The author, a product of B.I.T Sindri, is an information technologist and an expert in system analysis and management, presently working in Australia.In this article, he makes a psychological study of ...