Sushil in Delhi

Patna, Aug. 20: Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi will go to New Delhi tomorrow to participate in a meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP national president Amit Shah will also be present at the meeting.

Chief ministers of BJP-ruled states and leaders holding posts of deputy chief minister in alliance governments have been invited for the meeting, said a BJP source. The agenda for the meeting has not yet been shared.

Murder

Siwan: Shahnawaz Haider, alias Chhote, a deputy mukhiya, was killed at Chap village under the jurisdiction of Hussainganj police station in Siwan district on Saturday evening. Police said the assailants shot at Haider when he was standing near his house. The motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained, officers said.

Ammo haul

Nawada: The special task force of Bihar police seized a huge consignment of explosives, including detonators and gelatin, from Rajauli police station area on Sunday. The explosives were meant for Maoists, officers claimed. The police have launched combing operations in Maoist-hit areas of the district close to the Bihar-Jharkhand border.

Teen commits suicide

Buxar: A teenage girl is suspected to have committed suicide by jumping off the new Veer Kuer Singh Setu over the Ganga in Buxar district on Sunday. Residents in the area have told the police that she suddenly jumped off the bridge, into the swollen river. The body has not yet been found.

Inspector of Buxar Town police station Ganesh Ram said pair of slippers had been recovered from the spot the villagers claimed the girl jumped from.

RJD post

Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday appointed former parliamentarian Shivanand Tiwari as the party's national vice-president. Tiwari had so far been issuing statements in Lalu's support without any post in the RJD.

Flood blame

Patna: The Bihar Engineering Services Association on Sunday held the state government's policies responsible for the flood. Engineers, the association said, were being made scapegoat in case of a tragedy but in reality, it was the policies that had to be blamed.

Rail tracks

Patna: The Railway Employees Trackmaintainer Association has welcomed the decision to provide Rs 2,700 to the rail-track maintainers as high-risk allowance.

Health talk

Patna: A continuing medical education and a panel discussion on rheumatoid arthritis was organised by Western Patna Doctors' Club in collaboration with Global Orthopaedic Forum at Akshat Seva Sadan on Sunday. Secretary of the Global Orthopaedic Forum Dr Amulya Kumar Singh said there was a shortage of rheumatologists due to which patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis were mainly managed by the orthopaedic surgeons.

Flood jibe

Patna: The CPI-ML on Sunday demanded that the central government should declare floods in Bihar, Assam, Bengal and Uttar Pradesh as a national calamity as more than 3 crore people were affected. It criticised flood relief work in Bihar and said it should be started on a war footing.

Workshop

Patna: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Sunday organised a workshop on social media at Vishwa Samvad Kendra in which experts talked about how social media could be a useful tool to deliver a message to the society. The head of the centre of mass communications and media at the Central University of South Bihar, Atish Parashar and ABVP state organising secretary Nikhil Ranjan were present.

Green drive

Patna: Under the Connecting People to Nature campaign, the IAS Officers' Wives Association on Sunday organised a plantation programme at the newly constructed energy park at Rajbanshi Nagar. Association president Purneema Shekhar Sigh and secretary Ratna Amrti planted a sapling in the park to keep the environment free of air pollution.