Yoga advice

• Patna: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday suggested that if chief minister Nitish Kumar wanted to make prohibition a success in Bihar, he should promote yoga in the state.

Modi said the chief minister should organise an event at Patna's Gandhi Maidan on Yoga Day and lead it. He also criticised what he called Nitish's apathy towards Yoga Day programmes.

Online push

• Patna: The Bihar School Examination Board has decided to make available Intermediate online certificates and marksheets from 1983 and for matric, from 1985. The board is also working on introducing deduplication software under which the changed names of candidates will be checked.

Crossword

• Patna: Doordarshan will air a dozen episodes (30-minute duration) of the finals of the CBSE cryptic crossword, 2016, from Monday at 3pm for two weeks. It will be telecast from Monday to Saturday.

Tributes

• Patna: Rich tributes were paid to former minister late Anugrah Narayan Singh on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Sunday. At the state function organised on the premises of the state legislature, chief minister Nitish Kumar garlanded the statue of the late minister, an official press note said.

Funds jibe

• Patna: BJP spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan on Sunday claimed that people in general believed that the Bihar government was not using the central funds properly.

Awareness

• Patna: Dadhichi Deh Dan Samiti organised an awareness programme at the SK Nagar Park on Sunday morning to urge people to come forward and donate their bodies and organs so that it could be used for the benefit of society.

Chital head

• Araria: Jawans of the 52nd battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) recovered a chital's (spotted deer) head with horns from Lochi village under the jurisdiction of Sikti police station in Araria district on Saturday night from suspects who were entering from the Nepal side. The intruders managed to flee.