UN help for Vikas

• Patna: United Nations Development Programme country director for India, Jaco Cilliers, on Tuesday met chief minister Nitish Kumar and offered technical assistance in monitoring Bihar Vikas Mission in health and education sectors.

Pay injustice

• Patna: BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav on Tuesday said the government was unjust with contract teachers by depriving them of the 7th pay commission benefits.

Farmer meet

• Patna: SBI would organise a mega farmers' meet at 15,500 rural and semi-urban branches across the country on June 8, to cover 10 lakh farmers.

Freedom

• Patna: Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee on Tuesday alleged the BJP wanted to weaken the fourth pillar of democracy, the press. The Congress said this in context of the CBI raids on the offices of NDTV.

Start-ups

• Patna: Bihar Entrepreneurs' Association on Tuesday organised a session on Youth Meet of Changemakers - The Bihar Talks. Start-ups from different fields participated in the talk and shared their ideas on projects.

Man kills son

• Bhagalpur: Ravindra Yadav, a former mukhiya, shot at his two sons - Mukesh Yadav and Chhotu Yadav - following a dispute over property at Pan village under the jurisdiction of Sultanganj police station in Bhagalpur district on Tuesday. Mukesh, a government school teacher, later succumbed to his injuries. The injured has been admitted to a government hospital in Bhagalpur.

Cash loots

• Katihar: Armed men looted Rs 12 lakh from Pritam Choudhary, a businessman, near Semapur in Katihar district. Choudhary was returning to his business establishment after withdrawing money from HDFC Bank on a motorbike when he was attacked. In another incident, criminals looted Rs 5 lakh after shooting a petrol pump employee in Gopalganj district on Tuesday.

Firing arrest

• Aurangabad: The police arrested a youth for opening fire at a professional dancer during a wedding ceremony at Chilkhi Pan village under the jurisdiction of Kutumba police station on Monday night. A pistol and two live cartridges were seized from the accused, Sonu Kumar. The police have launched raids to nab three of Sonu's associates.

Rail ticket fine

• Patna: The railways in Bihar caught and fined 43,000 travellers without ticket and those not having proper ticket, and collected a penalty of Rs 15.2 crore in May this year, an East Central Railway (ECR) statement said, reports PTI. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel also held 861 persons travelling in coaches reserved for women and an amount of Rs 2.51 lakh was realised as penalty from them, the statement said.