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Tracing the Bodh Gaya temple conflict: From Ashoka to Viceroy to Lalu and roadside protests
The demand for Buddhist autonomy has often resurfaced at the site despite a 1949 law aimed at resolving such disputes.
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Bridges that collapse, cases that stall and the state’s accountability — or lack of it.
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Agnipath in Bihar: ‘I can’t retire at age 26’
Bihar's young men who aspired to join the Indian Army as soldiers for life, have had to shift sights to becoming Agniveers…
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The story of a Bihar bridge that collapsed twice
India News: The collapse of an under-construction bridge — connecting Aguwani Ghat (Khagaria district) and Sultanganj (Bhagalpur district) in Bihar — raises…
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How a mom hunted down her daughter’s ‘dead’ rapist
India News: When a woman in Bihar was informed that her daughter’s rapist had died days before the verdict, she knew something…
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Bihar was the model state in the days soon after the Right to Information Act passed. Then began the slow slide into intimidation, chaos, silence—and much worse — A new…
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Three months after Namami Gange manual-scavenging deaths, no compensation or cases filed
Two Muslim workers died after being forced to clean a sewer as part of the Namami Gange project in Bihar. No cases have been filed against those who forced them.
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We’re targeted for exposing government mismanagement: Journalists on Bihar media crackdown
The Bihar government and the BJP in the state have conducted a widespread crackdown of reporters in the state who documented their failures during the pandemic.