Day: November 23, 2019

Three-day Rajgir Festival from Nov 25, Pankaj Udhas set to perform.

Source – hindustantimes.com

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is expected to inaugurate the three-day Rajgir festival, scheduled to be held at the International Convention Centre at Rajgir from November 25.

The cultural extravaganza on the occasion will feature artistes like Pankaj Udhas, among others.

The event will also feature a Gramshree Mela which has been planned at the vast hockey ground at the heritage town.

The fair will also have activities like palanquin decoration contest, the “tonga”, or the horse-driven cart race, and dangal (wrestling), besides a Mahila Mahotsav where rural women will gather to discuss how to achieve economic independence and become self-sufficient.

Also, various government departments will be showcasing their activities and achievements at their stalls.

Rajgir Festival has been hosted jointly by the state tourism and the district administration, Nalanda. While the cultural event will be held at the International Convention Centre Rajgir, all other activities will be held at the hockey ground.

The Rajgir Festival was started in 1986 on the lines of Khajuraho Festival, the world famous Indian classical dance festival held in Madhya Pradesh every year.

“This time, the event is expected to be a fine blend of local and international. While the state tourism has invited celebrities to perform, the Nalanda district administration is trying to showcase the local talent. We have also planned a variety of local activities at the Gramshree Mela,” Nalanda DM Yogendra Singh said.

Activities like the palanquin decoration and Tonga decorations are expected to be a big draw. “Visitors, especially the foreign tourists, find it very interesting,” he said.

The first Rajgir Festival was held at the Swarna Bhandar, a nationally protected monument of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Rajgir. For three years, it was held at this site. But from 1990 to 1993, it could not be held due to some unavoidable reasons and was planned again at the youth hostel ground at Rajgir in 1994. Since then, the event has remained an annual feature. But its venue has kept changing. A few years ago, it was shifted to the Quila Maidan at Rajgir and since 2017, it’s being held at the convention centre.

Liquor ban: Over 200,000 cases pile-up, irked Patna HC raps Bihar govt.

Source – business-standard.com

Bihar government’s alcohol ban in the state may or may not have delivered desired results yet, but the move has put a huge burden on the judiciary.

The judiciary, already burdened with a large number of pending cases, has to now settle over 200,000 prohibition-related cases, including nearly 40,000 bail petitions pending with the Patna High Court.

The HC has asked Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government to explain the details of the infrastructure and mechanism it plans to develop to deal with mounting prohibition-related cases, according to a news report in The Times of India.

“In how many such cases has the state government appealed the high court’s order in the Supreme Court?,” a bench asked advocate general Lalit Kishore.

In reply, the advocate general said the state government had moved the SC on several occasions but he didn’t mention the number of cases.

The bench also sought to know what action the Bihar government has taken to pursue the cases filed in the SC challenging the enforcement of prohibition in the state.

Till date, 167,000 people have been arrested on charges of violating the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 and more than 5 lakh litres of alcohol have been seized, the report said.

Jharkhand Police respond to Scroll.in’s report, silent on ‘unknown’ thousands accused of sedition.

Source – scroll.in

In a statement on Friday, Jharkhand Police said media reports have given “totally incorrect and hugely inflated figures” about the number of people booked in sedition cases in Khunti district.

On Tuesday, Scroll.in had reported that the police had filed sedition cases against more than 10,000 people in the district over 2017 and 2018 when Adivasi villages erected stone monoliths with engravings of the Indian Constitution related to tribal autonomy.

The report was based on an analysis of 19 First Information Reports in which 132 of the accused were identified by name and thousands of others were listed as “unknown” accused. A writ petition filed in the High Court said Adivasis in the district were living in fear since the police could name them in the cases later.

The police statement, released on Twitter, is silent on the thousands of “unknown” people listed as the accused. It restricts itself to confirming sedition cases against 172 people.

“There are 19 criminal cases in Khunti district which have been declared true [under section 121A and 124A of the Indian Penal Code],” it said. “These cases are true against 172 accused persons only.”

Declaring a case true or false is a subsequent step in the course of a police investigation, which begins with the filing of an FIR. The police statement does not clarify how many cases were filed and what is the total number of accused – named and unnamed – in those cases.

Of the 19 FIRs that Scroll.in examined, 14 FIRs featured sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code as part of the offences. Those 14 FIRs listed more than 10,000 people as accused, the bulk of them “unknown”.
At the time of writing the report, Scroll.in had emailed detailed questions to Jharkhand police about these FIRs. Speaking on phone, the police superintendent of Khunti district, Ashutosh Shekhar, had said he could not respond until the elections were over.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Punjab beat Jharkhand.

Source – tribuneindia.com

Surat: Skipper Mandeep Singh top-scored with an unbeaten 81 as Punjab thrashed Jharkhand by 109 runs in their opening Super League match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament. Brief scores: Punjab: 199/4 (Mandeep Singh 81*; Abhishek Sharma 72; Shahbaz Nadeem 2/27); Jharkhand: 90 all out (Utkarsh Singh 24, Virat Singh 15; Mayank Markande 3/13)

Srikanth, Sameer out of Korea Masters Shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma crashed out of the Korea Masters after suffering straight-game defeats in the second round. Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama defeated the sixth-seeded Srikanth 21-14 21-19. Verma lost to South Korea’s Kim Donghun 21-19 21-12.

Weybridge (England)Ghosal in quarters of PSA world tour gold event

Saurav Ghosal moved into the quarterfinals of the Channel VAS Championship, a PSA world tour gold event, after beating Tom Richards of England 11-3 11-5 11-5. The seventh seed will face top seed Mohamed El Shorbagy of Egypt next. 

Bhuvi back for T20Is, ODIs vs WI, skipper Kohli also back

A fit-again Bhuvneshwar Kumar made a comeback to the Indian teams for the upcoming ODI and T20I series against the West Indies, while captain Virat Kohli returned after skipping the T20Is against Bangladesh. All-rounder Shivam Dube earned his maiden ODI call-up weeks after making his T20I debut against Bangladesh. 

T20I squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant (WK), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

ODI squad: Kohli (capt), Rohit, Dhawan, Rahul, Iyer, Pandey, Pant (WK), Dube, Kedar Jadhav, Jadeja, Chahal, Yadav, Chahar, Shami, Bhuvneshwar

Jungsher joins Kynan at top as men’s trap finals beckon

Young Jungsher Virk joined Olympian Kynan Chenai at the top on the second day of qualification in the 63rd National Shooting Championship for shotgun events. Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Prithviraj Tondaiman and Zoravar Singh Sandhu were also in contention to make the finals. National Rifle Association of India president Raninder Singh has a two-day score of 93. 

Chawrasia fights his way back to European Tour

Indian golfer SSP Chawrasia today won back his European Tour card with a sterling performance over 108 holes to finish fourth at the six-round Q-School event played at two courses here. Chawrasia, a four-time winner on the Tour, will be the third player alongside Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar on the European Tour in 2020.

Rashid Khan best Indian at tied-fifth

Rashid Khan carded a 4-under 67 to emerge as the best Indian after the first round of the $300,000 Sabah Masters today. Three other Indians — Aman Raj, Udayan Mane and Khalin Joshi — carded 3-under 68s to be inside the top-10. The lead was shared by four players, led by Thai Phachara Khongwatmai, at 4-under. agencies

IBPS PO Mains 2019 Admit Card Released on ibps.in,Exam on 30th Nov Check direct Link to download here.

Source – pagalguy.com

The admit card for IBPS PO Mains 2019 exam has been released by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, IBPS. Candidates applied for this exam can download their admit card from the official website of IBPS.

The IBPS PO mains 2019 exam is scheduled to be on 30th November 2019. The exam will be conducted across the country in various exam centres. The admit card will be available for downloading till 30th November 2019 on the website.

The admit card will contain all the exam related details like date and time of the exam, exam centres etc. Candidates must download the admit card with time and check all the relevant details present on the card.

The official website of IBPS to get more details on IBPS PO mains 2019 exam is www.ibps.in . Check the below points in order to download the admit card.

Steps to download IBPS PO Mains 2019 Admit Card:

  • Visit the official website of IBPS as mentioned above.
  • Click on the “IBPS PO Mains 2019 Admit Card” link on the homepage.
  • Enter the credentials required to login.
  • Check and download the admit card.
  • Take a print of the admit card 2019 for further use.

Exam Pattern:

  • The duration of IBPS PO Mains 2019 exam will be of 3 hours.
  • Total number of questions in the paper will be 155 carrying 200 Marks.
  • For the descriptive test, duration will be 30 minutes for 25 Marks.
  • For each wrong answer, there will be a deduction of 1/4th

The recruitment exam for IBPS PO 2019 held by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection aims of hiring 4336 Probationary Officers/Management Trainee.

BPSC Lecturer Interview Schedule 2019 Announced @bpsc.bih.nic.in, Check Roll Number & Subject-wise Program.

Source – www.jagranjosh.com

BPSC Lecturer Interview Schedule 2019: The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has announced by the interview program for Lecturer of various subject in Government Training Colleges (Open) Competitive Examination notified through Advertisement No. 02/2016. The candidates who have declared successful in the written examination can check the Interview Schedule in Common Group as well as Subject and Roll Number wise Groups on the official website of the Commission, bpsc.bih.nic.in.

As per the BPSC Lecturer Interview Schedule 2019 notice issued on 21 November on the BPSC’s portal, the Lecturer Interview process will commence on 09 December 2019 in the Common Group which will continue for six days till 14 December. Social Science Group Interview will start as next on 16 December and thereafter interview for other subjects will take place. The Interview process will continue till 04 January 2020.

The candidates appearing for the BPSC Lecturer Interview 2019 (Advt (02/2016) will be able to download BPSC Lecturer Admit Card one week prior to the date of their interview from the official website of the Commission, as per the Notice issued. Candidates will be able to check the exact venue and time of reporting through their Admit Card itself.

In order to appear for the BPSC Lecturer Interview 2019 (Advt (02/2016), candidates would need to carry certain documents along with them which include the original certificates and mark-sheet of various examinations passed along with two self-attested copies of each document. Candidates are advised to check the complete list from the Official Notice issued by the BPSC through the direct link given below-

The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) had announced the Result of Lecturer Open Competitive (Written) Examination conducted on 25 August 2019 at various exam centres decided by the Commission in Patna. A total of 3275 candidates appeared for the written examination out of which 3209 candidates were declared successful for the next round of the selection process, which is BPSC Lecturer Interview Schedule 2019 (Advt (02/2016).

JPSC Civil Judge Mains Result 2019 out, Download @jpsc.gov.in

Source – jagranjosh.com

JPSC Civil Judge Mains Result 2019:  Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) has released the Civil Judge Mains Exam 2019. Candidates applied for JPSC Civil Judge Mains 2019 Exam can download their result through the official website of JPSC.i.e.jpsc.gov.in.

JPSC Civil Judge Junior Division Exam 2019 was held on 28 and 29 September 2019 at various exam centres. The list of candidates selected in the written exam is given below. Candidates can download the result by following the instructions given below.

Process to Download JPSC Civil Judge Result 2019?

  • Visit the official website. i.e. jpsc.gov.in.
  • Click on JPSC Civil Judge Junior Division Exam 2019 Result flashing on the homepage.
  • A PDF will open. 
  • Candidates can check roll numbers in the PDF and take a printout of the result for future reference.

All selected candidates will be called for Viva-Voce Test. The date of the viva-voce test will be communicated in due course. The viva-voce test will be of 100 Marks. The candidate will have to score a minimum 25% for the General Category and 20% for SC/ST/EBC & BC. 

The final selection of the candidate will be done on the basis of marks obtained in the main exam and viva voce test. In case of tie of marks between the candidates in the final selection list, their selection will be made on the basis of qualification. 

The JPSC Civil Judge Junior Division Recruitment 2019 Online Application Procedure was started on 24 November 2018 and ended on 24 December 2018. Candidates can download JPSC Civil Judge Mains Result 2019 directly by clicking on the above link.

Highlights: 

  • Advt. No.: 12/2018
  • Vacancies: 107 Posts
  • Starting date of online application for JPSC Civil Judge Recruitment 2019: 24 November 2018
  • Last date for submission of online application for JPSC Civil Judge Recruitment 2019: 24 December 2018
  • Last date for payment of fee: 26 December 2018
  • Exam Date: 27 May 2019

Manisha Kulshreshtha wins 28th Bihari Puraskar.

Source – hindustantimes.com

Noted writer from Rajasthan, Manisha Kulshreshtha, was awarded the 28th Bihari Puraskar for 2018 for her novel ‘Swapnapash’, on Friday.

The award is presented by the KK Birla Foundation and is for writers of Rajasthani origin. It is given annually to an outstanding work in Hindi or Rajasthani published in the past 10 years. Named after famous Hindi poet Bihari, the award carries a cash prize of ~2.5 lakh, a citation, and a plaque.

Fifty-two-year-old Kulshreshtha was born in Jodhpur and is a graduate in science and postgraduate in Hindi literature.

She is known for her works like ‘Shigaf’, ‘Shalbhanjika’ and ‘Panchkanya’.

The citation read, “In Swapnapash, through her protagonist Gulnaz Fariba, Kulshreshtha has presented a lively description of a woman with schizophrenia, her life, her dreams, expectation and apprehensions.”

A freelance writer, Kulshreshtha also edits Hindi web magazine ‘Hindi Next’.

Speaking on the occasion, she said, “I am thankful to Birla Foundation for the award which will make me more responsible towards every word I write.”

Chief guest Mamta Kaliya said, “Rajasthan has a tradition of great storytellers and Manisha has carried it with control over a topic such as schizophrenia.”

KK Birla Foundation director Suresh Rituparn said it was established by KK Birla with an objective to work in areas like education, culture, academics, art and health. The Bihari Puraskar is one of the three literary awards instituted by the Foundation in 1991.

The jury this year comprised Nand Bharadwaj, Hemant Shesh, Murlidhar Vaishnav, Alka Saraogi, Om Thanvi and Dr Suresh Rituparn.