Record Indian television viewership tune in as India beat Sri Lanka to emerge as World Cup winners after 28 years.

The epic final match for the World Cup cricket tournament in Mumbai Saturday night between India and Sri Lanka was seen by a record 67.6 million TV viewers in India according to ratings agency aMap.
The finals were telecast on ESPN Star Sports network’s Star Cricket and Star Sports channels alongwith terrestrial statecaster Doordarshan though the aMap ratings figures only cover cable and satellite homes and not the additional terrestrial homes served by Doordarshan, Indian Television.

Wednesday, March 30th 2011-India and Pakistan square off in the semi finals of the World Cup 2011 tomorrow. This highly anticipated game can without doubt be called the biggest game of this series. Even the New York Times predicts this game to bring the Indian subcontinent to a standstill. And, that’s no exaggeration!

Canton Charter Academy seventh grader Siddharth Varanasi qualified to compete in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee this year.This is his second time qualifying.Siddharth Varanasi is also a two-time winner of The Detroit News Regional Spelling Bee.He will compete nationally in Washington D.C. in June of this year.

Apart from being an ace speller, Siddharth is also Canton Charter Academy's student council president and belongs to the Honor Society in school. In February, he won The Detroit News Regional Spelling Bee competition among 45 students in Detroit. He made it all the way out to Washington, D.C. last year too.

There is not a single household in the Bihar and Jharkhand where the sweet aroma of Malpua fill the air on the eve of Holi. It is a Bihari tradition to serve Malpua for Holi. This scrumptious desert is a staple during this colorful festival, not only in India but now to the millions of Bihari homes all over the world.

Popularily called a pua, the recipe of making one is pretty simple. It is the unique ingredients that make the taste of Malpuas just irresistible. You may vaguely call it a fritter or even a pancake, just in a desi style. And like all the good tasting things in this world, it is loaded with calories! But fear not…the taste of Malpuas are so out of this world that in my opinion, it is worth taking the risk!

Electrical engineer Gyanesh Pandey, 35, has never met Shahrukh Khan. But, his story, which won international accolade on Tuesday, is remarkably similar to Khan’s portrayal of a NRI engineer providing water to his native village in the film Swadesh. Instead, of water, the 35 year old has given cheap and clean electricity generated from waste rice husk to 380 of the poorest villages in West Champaran district of Bihar and his work is now one of the five most innovative green projects in the world.

Ashden Awards for sustainable energy in London said Pandey’s company, Husk Power Systems provides clean, reliable electricity supply and cost less than the alternatives.

Bihar’ Super 30 coaching institute has witnessed complete success for the third consecutive year with all 30 of its students clearing the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology – Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), the institute announced Wednesday.

Mohammad Sadab Azam, a student of Super 30 whose father works as a labourer in a village in Gaya district, said: “Thanks to Super 30, I cracked the IIT-JEE. Everyone is in a celebratory mood. We are happy.”

Jan 22nd 2011 PATNA: Best selling author Chetan Bhagat, who is on his maiden trip to Bihar, says he is impressed with the fact that the state is no more in the news for its negative stories and people are talking about its growth and changing face.

"I am impressed with stories of changing face of Bihar and its growth. Everyone across the country is talking and discussing it," Chetan Bhagat, who is visiting Patna for the first time, told reporters here Tuesday.

The IIM alumni is here to attend a seminar at the Arcade Business College.

INDIA’S economy may be roaring, but how can its people, especially the poorest, benefit from the general gains? Perhaps Bihar, India’s most impoverished state, and one long blighted by caste politics, can show the way. On November 24th the results of state assembly elections in Bihar brought a resounding victory for a coalition led by the incumbent chief minister, Nitish Kumar, who had pledged to bring development to the poorest.

Patna, Sept. 12: The days of Patna shrouded in darkness is over. The fear and sense of insecurity are gone from the minds of its citizens. There were days when businessmen did not dream of new ventures. The local means of transport refused late-night rides.

Women and children remained confined to their homes after sunset and the educated section preferred to move outside the state to settle in other cities for a better lifestyle and safer environment for themselves and their children. Nobody felt safe, be it children, women businessmen, hawkers or senior citizens.

Life comes to a full circle when it comes to answering questions about my cultural and ethnic background. "Where are you from?" I see myself jumping through the hoops to answer this tough one. If you are like me who has made more than one place their home, you probably will identify with me. Sometimes I wish this question was posed as a multiple choice question where I could answer "all of the above" for my choice. The funny part is that I see this dilemma in a lot of the younger generations within the community. It is hard to choose one word to describe your cultural affiliations.

Nowadays, a large number of intellectual, creative and business minds of the country are striving to create a mass movement to protect nature. But, despite their best efforts, they have not made much headway in this direction. It would do them well if they took a second look at Chhath — a festival which is celebrated by the people of Bihar and which is an occasion that draws out a sea of people to the banks of rivers to clean up the mess there every year and that too, without any marketing or publicity gimmicks.

A young talented singer Kalpana Patowary has already captured the Indian audiences with the sensational song “tera ishk se meetha” from Priyadarshan’s film Aakrosh. After energetic duet of “aila re aila mast chamaila” with Diler Mahendi for Akshay Kumar’s film Khatta Meetha...singer Kalpana has hit the high notes again.

Bill Gates recent trip to India can be called an historic one for the people of Bihar.Bill Gates reached out to millions who are in need of basic healthcare in the state of Bihar. In an effort to bolster public health standards, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday, May 14th,2010.