Officials promoted

Patna: The state government on Tuesday promoted three IAS officers to the higher administrative grade.

They are energy secretary Pratyaya Amrit, industry secretary S. Siddharth and state revenue council additional member S.M. Raju.

Court order

Patna: The high court on Tuesday directed the government to file an affidavit in connection with an RJD bandh on July 27, 2015, during which protesters stopped the car of a sitting judge twice.

Health camp

Patna: Around 200 people were checked free of cost at a health camp organised by Pahal, a non-government organisation.

Registrar

Patna: Dr Gayathri V. Patil on Tuesday took charge as the registrar of Central University of South Bihar.

Stipend petition

Patna: The SC/ST welfare department informed the Bihar Human Rights Commission that it had received one lakh petitions for SC/ST scholarships.

The commission had taken suo motu cognisance of a news report on SC/ST students of Bihar being forced to leave Rajdhani Engineering College, (REC) Bhubaneswar because of the government's failure to pay their stipends.

Election

Patna: Bihar state bank employees' leader Sanjai Tiwari was unanimously elected as assistant secretary of the union during the 24th triennial conference of the Corporation Bank.

Firing

Motihari: Motorcycle-borne members of the banned Azad Hind Fauj opened fire at the construction site of Rishi Builders India Private Limited near Sekhauna village on Tuesday. No one was injured.

Body found

Bagaha: Police recovered the body of Ram Chandra Yadav, who had gone missing from Garbhshahi village, from a pond near the village on Tuesday.

LED lights

Chhapra: All 44 wards under Chhapra Nagar Parshad will be illuminated with LED lights, Shobha Devi, parishad chairperson, said on Tuesday.

Water plea

Patna: Union minister of state for drinking water and sanitation Ram Kripal Yadav on Tuesday wrote a letter to chief minister Nitish Kumar about the problems faced by the people of his constituency in connection with water.

Protest

Gopalganj: Villagers on Tuesday staged road blockade for four hours over the death of Bhikhu Ram who was injured in a scuffle with his neighbour on February 18.

Arrest

Motihari: Shasastra Seema Bal on Tuesday recovered 100gm brown sugar, a motorbike, a weighing machine and a cell phone from Kaurihar chowk near Raxaul and arrested Jumai Miya of Bhawanipur in this connection.

Committees

Gaya: Magadh division commissioner Lian Kunga has constituted three separate committees to conduct an inquiry into the functioning of private nursing homes and hospitals in the town.