Train blast kills 10.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  July 29, 2005 ;     105 words ......travelling from the eastern city of Patna, capital of eastern Bihar state, to New Delhi. Earlier yesterday, police found...packed with 18 small bombs on a passenger train in eastern Bihar state. Four people were detained in connection with...

Indian investigators search for clues in bombing that killed 10 on crowded...

AP Worldstream;  July 29, 2005 ;     227 words ......traveling from the eastern city of Patna, the capital of eastern Bihar state, to New Delhi. Earlier Thursday, police found a suitcase packed with 18 small bombs inside a passenger train car in eastern Bihar state, said Uday Kant Jha, a railway official in Patna, the...

Floods leave 288 dead and millions stranded in South Asia

AP Worldstream;  July 25, 2002 ;     391 words ......said the state' s Flood Control Minister Nurjamal Sarkar. In eastern Bihar, 53 people have died and nearly 4 million people have been...overflowed its banks on Thursday, submerging new villages in eastern Bihar state where more than 5,000 villages have been affected...

Floods leave 283 dead and millions stranded in South Asia

AP Worldstream;  July 25, 2002 ;     391 words ......said the state' s Flood Control Minister Nurjamal Sarkar. In eastern Bihar, 53 people have died and nearly 4 million people have been...overflowed its banks on Thursday, submerging new villages in eastern Bihar state where more than 5,000 villages have been affected...

Beheaded man offered to goddess

The Independent - London;  June 11, 1995 ;     34 words ...A middle-aged man was shot dead and then beheaded to appease a Hindu goddess in eastern Bihar state, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said yesterday. Three men chopped off Satyanarayan Singh's head at a village near Patna.

Communist rebels blow up train station in India's eastern Bihar state

AP Worldstream;  April 1, 2003 ;     131 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: PATNA, India Communist rebels evacuated a small train station, then blew it up early Tuesday in eastern Bihar state, said a railway official. There were no injuries, but extensive damage was caused to the building, the rail...

Rail 'sabotage'.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 13, 2002 ;     67 words ......saying it appeared someone had tampered with the track. Thirteen coaches of Shramjeevi Express went off the tracks yesterday near Jaunpur, 220 miles east of New Delhi, from where it started. It was heading for Patna, capital of eastern Bihar state.

World: India.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 13, 2002 ;     65 words ......tracks near Lucknow, 220 miles east of New Delhi. The train was travelling from New Delhi to Patna, the capital of eastern Bihar state. The accident occurred when most passengers were sleeping. The cause of the accident was not immediately...

Polio setback.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  August 28, 2004 ;     95 words ...India's efforts to eradicate polio have stalled in eastern Bihar state where poor, conservative communities are refusing to have their children immunised because they do not trust the medicine...

World today - Children poisoned.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  July 6, 2004 ;     45 words ...ELEVEN children died and 60 others were ill yesterday after eating food served at an Indian temple celebration. Hundreds of people attended the Guru Poornima festival at the Birangabad temple in eastern Bihar state. The event included handouts of food believed to be blessed by the gods.

Firecracker factory fire in eastern India kills 7; at least 16 injured

AP Worldstream;  September 15, 2005 ;     63 words ...AP Worldstream 09-15-2005 Dateline: PATNA, India A fire erupted in a firecracker factory in India's eastern Bihar state Wednesday, killing at least seven people, police said. Sixteen people were reported injured in the fire in Khusropur village...

India's anti-polio campaign meets resistance among poor in eastern Bihar...

AP Worldstream;  August 28, 2004 ;     448 words ......Writer AP Worldstream 08-28-2004 Dateline: GAYA, India India's efforts to eradicate polio nationwide have hit a hurdle in eastern Bihar state where poor, conservative communities are refusing to have their children immunized because they don't trust the medicine...

Five children, adult killed in night attack in eastern India

AP Worldstream;  May 30, 2002 ;     172 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: PATNA, India Armed attackers killed five children and an adult in a village in India's eastern Bihar state, notorious for its long-running conflict between lower- and upper-caste Hindus, police said Thursday. The six were...

Report: Thousands of school children protest kidnapping of student in...

AP Worldstream;  January 24, 2005 ;     190 words ......away from classes Monday to protest the failure of the state government to find a student kidnapped six days ago in India's eastern Bihar state, a news report said. Students in 1,800 privately run schools stayed home Monday, and will not each lunch until the...

Couple Beaten to Death By Indian Villagers

The Washington Post;  April 18, 1990 ;     103 words ...A couple in a remote village of eastern Bihar State were beaten to death and burned by four people who suspected them of causing a child's death through sorcery, a news service...