Bihar is a state in Eastern India. It is the third largest state by population,the 12th largest by area,and the 15th 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. Bihar is split by the river Ganges,which flows from west to east. On 15 November 2000,southern Bihar was ceded to form the new state of Jharkhand. Only 11.27% of the population of Bihar lives in urban areas as per a 2020 report. Additionally,almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25,giving Bihar the highest proportion of young people of any Indian state. The official language is Hindi,which shares official status alongside that of Urdu. The main native languages are Maithili,Magahi and Bhojpuri. But there are several other languages being spoken at smaller levels.
Jyoti Kumar Sinha was born in Patna,Bihar. He served as Director General of Central Reserve Police Force and later as Member of the National Disaster Management Authority and RAW chief. He is a Bihar cadre Indian Police Service officer of the 1967 batch.
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 Brahmin landlords under the leadership of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya 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 been serving 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 whilst also holding the post for his 9th term.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer,politician and diplomat who served as the Former Chief Minister of Delhi,and also 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 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.
Satyendra Narayan Sinha was an Indian politician and statesman,participant in the Indian independence movement,a leading light of Jaya Prakash Narayan's ‘complete revolution’movement during the Emergency and a former Chief Minister of Bihar. Affectionately called Chhote Saheb,he was also a seven-time Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad constituency,a three-term Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly,and a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council once. Regarded to be one of India's most influential regional people of the time,his reputation was synonymous with being a strict disciplinarian and tough taskmaster.
Anugrah Narayan Sinha,known as Bihar Vibhuti,was an Indian nationalist politician,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 close associate of Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom 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 the 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 program,which he started in Patna,Bihar in 2002. He is known for coaching underprivileged students for JEE–Main and JEE–Advanced,the entrance examinations 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,the country's fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contributions in the fields of literature and education.
Super 30 is an Indian educational programme started in Patna,India under the banner of Ramanujan School of Mathematics. It was founded by Anand Kumar,a mathematics teacher. The programme selects 30 talented candidates each year from economically underprivileged sections of Indian society and trains them for the JEE. The programme 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 38 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,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,better known as S. Jaishankar,is an Indian diplomat,politician and author,who is serving as the 30th Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 31 May 2019. He is the longest serving Minister of External Affairs since Jawaharlal Nehru,who held the position during his entire 17 years as Prime Minister. Jaishankar is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Rajya Sabha. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary of India from 2015 to 2018.
The Chief Information Commissioner of India is the head of the Central Information Commission appointed by the President of India. 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 and served there till 6 November 2023.
