US business houses heading to Bihar

Thursday , March 31 2011 Inbox Edition

• US business houses heading to Bihar
  Guess where US businesses are turning to now for new opportunities in India: to Bihar, the new turnaround success story, and, depending on the outcome of the coming elections, West Bengal. “We would like to meet Nitish Kumar who has just won a sweeping mandate in favour of progress,” Ron Somers, president of the United [...] View More
• Bihar first to grant voters the right to recall corporators
  The Nitish Kumar-government has decided to empower the voters of the urban civic body polls to call back their elected representatives if they are not satisfied with their performance. The state cabinet has agreed to the ‘right to recall’ proposal in this regard by giving its nod to the amendment to the Bihar Municipal Act. [...] View More
• Bihar and UP-The journey of brotherhood
  LUCKNOW: UP and Bihar -- for long, the two states have been like country cousins, remembered in the same breath as models of underdevelopment; home to corrupt politicians and babus and, as exalted members of Bimaru states, symbols of everything that ailed the Indian economy. But then one man was introduced in the plot, as if [...] View More
• UP taking healthy lesson from Bihar
  LUCKNOW: Rising from ashes, Bihar is India’s newphoenix. Recently it impressed the World Bankresulting in an aid worth several hundred crores for development of the state. And it has a number of lessons for neighbouring UP. In 2002-03, when census data was notified, UP fared better than Bihar. But, now the tortoise (read Bihar) has metamorphosed [...] View More
• Bihar Govt to open logistic infrastructure support industry
  PATNA: A logistic support infrastructure industry will come up at Bihta in Patna district in place of a closed sugar mill. This was announced by deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi in the state assembly on Monday while intervening during the question hour. Sugarcane minister Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha while replying to a question of Bhai Birendra (RJD) [...] View More