Bihar is a state in Eastern India. It is the third largest state by population,the 12th largest by area,and the 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west,Nepal to the north,the northern part of West Bengal to the east,and Jharkhand to the south. The Bihar plain is split by the river Ganges,which flows from west to east.
Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha,PVSM,ADC was an Indian Army General who served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff. After his retirement,he served as Governor of the states of Jammu and Kashmir,and Assam.
The Ranvir Sena is a militia functioning as a landlord group,mainly based in the state of Bihar,India. The group was formed by Bhumihar landlords in 1994,with the aim to counter the influence of various left-wing militants,Naxalite groups and the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) in central Bihar. The Ranvir Sena has been connected to a number of massacres including the massacre at Laxmanpur Bathe. It has,on several occasions,been accused of human rights abuses. The Bihar state government banned the Ranvir Sena in July 1995,but the group continue to remain active. The group has frequently publicly claimed responsibility for its crimes with impunity.
Nitish Kumar is an Indian politician who has served as the 22nd chief minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015,having previously held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. He is Bihar's longest serving chief minister,and also holding the post for 9th term.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer and politician,who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs,after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs,after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977,she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
Nikhil Kumar is a former IPS officer-turned politician hailing from Bihar who was Governor of Nagaland from 2009 to 2013 and Governor of Kerala from 2013 to 2014. One of country's well knownIPS officers of 1963 batch from the AGMUT Cadre Kumar also served as DGP of the National Security Guards,Indo-Tibetan Border Police,Railway Protection Force and Commissioner of Delhi Police. He was elected member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India from 2004 to 2009,representing the Aurangabad constituency in Bihar as a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology.
Anugrah Narayan Sinha,known as Bihar Vibhuti,was an Indian nationalist statesman,participant in Champaran Satyagraha,Gandhian &one of the architects of modern Bihar,who was the first Deputy Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–1957). He was also a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India,which was elected to write the Constitution of India and served in its first Parliament as an independent nation. He also held a range of portfolios including Labour,Local Self Government,Public Works,Supply &Price Control,Health and Agriculture. A.N. Sinha,affectionately called Anugrah Babu,was a very close associate of Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom struggle movement and worked with Bihar Kesari Sri Krishna Sinha to lead the Gandhian movement in Bihar. One of the leading nationalists in the Indian independence movement from Bihar after Dr Rajendra Prasad,he was elected as the Congress Party deputy leader in the state assembly to assume office as first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of independent Bihar,and re-elected when the Congress Party won Bihar's first general election with a massive mandate in 1952.
Anand Kumar is an Indian Mathematics educator,best known for his Super 30 programme,which he started in Patna,Bihar in 2002,known for coaching underprivileged students for JEE- Main &JEE-Advanced,the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Kumar was named in Time magazine's list of Best of Asia 2010. In 2023,he was awarded the Padma Shri,country's fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contributions in the field of literature and education.
Super 30 is an Indian educational program started in Patna,India under the banner of Ramanujan School of Mathematics. It was founded by Anand Kumar,a mathematics teacher. The program selects 30 talented candidates each year from economically underprivileged sections of Indian society and trains them for the JEE. The program is portrayed in the 2019 film,Super 30,starring Hrithik Roshan as Anand Kumar,and his school,have been the subject of several smear campaigns,some of which have been carried in Indian media sources.
Bhojpur district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. Arrah city is the administrative headquarters of this district. Bhojpur district came into existence in 1972. Earlier it was the part of Shahabad district. This district is named "Bhojpur" after great Parmara King Bhoja as most early settlers were Rajput rulers of Parmara dynasty then called as Ujjainiya.
St. Xavier's High School,Patna,is a private Catholic primary and secondary school,located in the neighborhood of Gandhi Maidan in Patna,Bihar,India. Established in 1940,it is the oldest Jesuit school in the city of Patna and in the state of Bihar,established by missionaries from the American Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus. Founded in 1940,it is named after St. Francis Xavier,a Spanish Jesuit saint of the 16th century,who travelled to India. The independent,non-diocesan school is operated by the Patna Province of the Society of Jesus and located in the heart of the city of Patna.
St. Michael's High School,Patna,also referred to as SMHS Patna or SMHS for short,is a private,Roman Catholic,co-educational high school in the Digha neighborhood of Patna,Bihar,India.
The Central Information Commission is a statutory body,set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005 under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer due to either the officer not have been appointed,or because the respective Central Assistant Public Information Officer or State Assistant Public Information Officer refused to receive the application for information under the Right to Information Act.
Patna College is a constituent state aided College of Patna University which was established in 1863 during the British Raj. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in science,arts and commerce as well as some vocational courses like BBA,BMC and BCA. The college is affiliated to Patna University. It is also considered to be the oldest institution of higher education in Bihar.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018. He became the second ever diplomat to be appointed as India's External Affairs minister,after Natwar Singh.
The Chief Information Commissioner of India is the head of the Central Information Commission appointed by the President of India. The first Chief Information Commissioner was Wajahat Habibullah. First woman Chief Information Commissioner was Deepak Sandhu. The tenure of the commissioners has been cut to three years in the new rules.
Uday Mahurkar is an Indian journalist,political analyst and author. He was a deputy editor at the India Today group. In October 2020,he was appointed as the Information Commissioner by the Government of India.
