Teachers should teach, not supervise cooking of meals: Allahabad HC; boycott in Bihar
Allahabad/Patna: The duty of school teachers and principals is to teach students and not to supervise cooking of meals, the Allahabad High Court has observed, close on the heels of Bihar mid-day meal
Bihar mid-day meal horror: Chhapra school principal arrested
Patna: Police on Wednesday arrested the head of a government school in Bihar's Saran district, where 23 students died after eating mid-day meal tainted with pesticide, an officer told AFP.
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Bihar CM smells conspiracy behind mid-day meal tragedy
Patna: Smelling a conspiracy behind the mid-day meal tragedy in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has alleged that BJP and RJD had a "secret understanding" to derive political mileage from the incid
Bihar BJP rocked by dissidence, accuses JD(U) of poaching MLAs
Patna: Rocked by dissidence after the ruling JD(U) snapped ties with it last month, Bihar BJP today suspended its MLA Amarnath Gami, who had rebelled against senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi, and lash
Whose photo will Siddaramaiah hang in his office in 2014?
Scoring political points over portraits! Now one would imagine that an august assembly of men and women would expend their energies, discussing the many ways and means they can transform the lives of
Centre, Bihar trade charges over mid-day meal tragedy
Patna: The mid-day meal tragedy has sparked a blame game with the Bihar government on Friday refuting Centre’s contention of having sent alerts to 12 districts including Saran, where 23 children died
Mid-day meal tragedy: Grieving parents go on rampage
Grieving parents rampaged through a village in eastern India to protest the deaths of 23 pupils who ate a poisoned school lunch and the perceived slow police response to the tragedy, officials said Friday.
Toll 22 in Bihar mid-day tragedy; Bihar smells plot
Patna: The number of young children killed after eating contaminated mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar reached 22 on Wednesday amid reports that traces of an agricultural insecticide were
Mid-day meal deaths: No arrests yet; Centre alerts 12 Bihar districts
Chhapra/Patna: The head mistress of the government school in Chhapra whose 23 children died in the mid-day meal tragedy suspected to have been caused by poisoned food was absconding, as it emerged th
Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Death toll rises to 23; Centre to form food quality monitoring panel
Chhapra/Patna: One more child has died in the mid-day meal tragedy in Chhapra taking the toll to 23, while 25 others, including 24 children and a cook, were under treatment in the Patna Medical Colle