3 of family killed
• Patna: Three members of a family were killed and three injured at Narayanpur village in Saran on Wednesday. Police said a group of armed criminals raided the house of Paras Rai around 1am and fired at the family members when they were sleeping.
Paras, 80, his wife Basmatia Devi, 75, and their grandson Bijendra Rai, 25, died on the spot. Property dispute is suspected to be the reason behind the murders.
Video probe
• Muzaffarpur: Ahiyapur police station house officer Vijay Kumar on Wednesday visited the railway bridge at Sangam Ghat in Muzaffarpur district and enquired about the video purportedly showing a school girl being harassed by a group of youngsters.
Transfers
• Patna: The government on Wednesday transferred education secretary Jitendra Shrivastava in a routine action, according to a notification from the general administration department. Shrivastava has been made Magadh divisional commissioner. R.L. Chongthu will replace Shrivastava. Jitendra Kumar Singh, joint secretary, sugar industries, has been given additional charge as commissioner, sugarcane department.
Society plot
• Patna: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday alleged that plot number 208 of housing cooperative society - in the name of RJD chief Lalu Prasad - houses the zonal pay and account office of the Sashatra Seema Bal.
Medals
• Patna: Sarvesh Yadav, a jawan in the Railway Protection Force, Samastipur division, has won gold and silver medals in the All India Railway Protection Force Boxing Championship 2017 and weight lifting, respectively.
Inspection
Patna: East Central Railway senior deputy general manager Sudanshu Sharma on Wednesday inspected the railway colony of Konharaghat in Hajipur, checked the drinking water facilities and cleanliness.
Result jab
Patna: Minister of state Ram Kripal Yadav on Wednesday slammed chief minister Nitish Kumar over the poor Intermediate results and held him responsible for playing with the future of the students.
Life term
• Patna: A Saran court on Wednesday sentenced seven accused to undergo life imprisonment in a murder case.
Cop action
• Patna: The government has initiated departmental proceedings against then deputy superintendent of Darbhanga divisional jail Ramadhar Singh for alleged negligence leading to the suicide of undertrial Siyaram Sahni in the jail on August 18, 2012.
Cabinet decisions
• Patna: The Bihar cabinet on Wednesday discussed 13 agendas, including lowering the stamp duty on Student Credit Cards (SCC) from Rs 1,000 to Rs 100. The SCC scheme is part of chief minister Nitish Kumar's seven resolves and Intermediate pass students could avail a loan of up to Rs 4 lakh for higher education. The loan is given by banks and the state government is a guarantor to it.
With regard to "direct subsidy or scholarship transfer" to beneficiaries, the cabinet approved the finance department's proposal to extend the deadline for Aadhar seeding of the beneficiaries' bank accounts to June 30.
The cabinet also approved Rs 25 crore advance from the Bihar Contingency Fund to pay as lease money to the Delhi Development Authority for an acre of land at Dwarka Sector-19, Phase- 1, in New Delhi. The state government plans to construct a state guest house there, for which it acquired one acre land last year.
