It must have been a proud moment for the Catholic Church when the foundation stone for the St. Peter's Church was laid on the "roof of the world" on July 29. The Press note issued by the Catholic ...

A S the Indian Airlines aircraft descended on Patna on a rainy day last fortnight, I could identify almost all the landmarks of the city - the meandering Ganga, the sprawling Gandhi Maidan, Hotel ...

RANCHI : It’s a kind of story we normally get on the celluloid – a story about greedy, self-indulgent politicians and the deprived lot. In Jharkhand, there exist various accounts of Mr Babulal Marandi ...

The author is The Statesman’s Patna-based Special Representative. Sukath Choudhary is dead. So is my father. But my village, thrown carelessly on the map of Bihar state of India is still there. I love ...

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 ...

The India Today conclave of Chief Ministers could have gone down in history as a serious effort to bring back the agenda of ‘development’ to the national stage. Since ‘Operation Blue Star’ and ...