Dilip Kumar Singh

Exciting developments are underway in Patna as the city embarks on a transformative power infrastructure project. Under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme, a massive Rs 328-crore initiative is focusing on rolling out underground cabling, set to eliminate unsightly overhead wires by July 2027.

The medical superintendent of the hospital wrote a letter to the civil surgeon asking him to make sure that the mamta vahan ambulance service does not stop working at night. The civil surgeon responded by asking the medical superintendent to show cause for why the ambulance service was stopped working at night. The civil surgeon said that it would be thoroughly investigated and the guilty would be punished.

“We are getting at least five to seven patients of snakebites daily. Most of the patients are bitten by either a krait or a cobra,” Dr RK Ranjan at the Medinirai Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) told TOI .

According to superintending engineer dilip kumar singh, the joint of a 33kV cable located near the Eco Park was worn out which led to the power crisis.

The South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited, the government-owned discom, launched an anti-power theft campaign on Monday in 17 districts. The 45-day drive will focus on saving electricity by preventing power theft and misuse of feeders.

The statewide strike of contractual health workers has begun to take a toll on the health services in rural areas in Palamu. 680 workers are on strike since January 17 for regularization of their services. The strike has started to affect routine immunization deliveries, tubectomy cataract surgery, and other medical procedures. The health department officials say they are managing with limited sources, but the strike has slowed down the rate of the routine immunization.

Despite a bumper yield this year, mango farmers of the Bhagalpur region are feeling apprehensive about the impact of the Covid-induced lockdown on the sale of the seasonal fruit.

With the onset of summer, almost all the city areas have been facing frequent power outages.

A police raid at a small house in Agra’s Jagdispura on Friday found a variety of counterfeit branded products which often dupe customers of their hard-earned money. In fact, more than Rs 50 lakh counterfeit products, including cosmetics such as face wash, skin foundation, hair oil and lip balm, were recovered.

Police on Monday morning sealed three bank accounts of Singh - Punjab and Sind Bank, Uco Bank and State Bank of India - at Matkuriya and found Rs 1.6 crore in the accounts.

New to dynamic pricing of fuel, customers at the filling stations are keeping employees busy with queries on the new daily tariff system.

Residents of several localities in the state capital have been sweating buckets due to frequent and prolonged power cuts for the past couple of days.

A video of RPF and GRP personnel dragging a corpse with a rope went viral on social media on Monday. Some people questioned the inhuman manner in which the dead was treated. A man died by suicide after he jumped in front of a goods train at Jalpaiguri Road Station, causing other trains to be held up. RPF and GRP personnel tied a rope to the corpse's leg and dragged it over the sleepers and then moved it away from the track with a bamboo pole. Dr. dilip kumar singh, the Alipurduar DM, told TOI that "the GRP is very sensitive in such cases and always works in tandem with the RPF. This shouldn't have happened. I will look into the incident."

Saraogi and Lalan (BJP MLAs from Darbhanga and Pirpainti, respectively), in their notices, have categorically alleged that Lakhisarai DySP Ranjan Kumar, station house officer (Birupur) dilip kumar singh and SHO (Barahia) Sanjay Kumar Singh talked very indecently with the speaker Sinha when he had gone to his constituency Lakhisarai on February 9.

A police raid at a small house at Jagdispura in UP's Agra on Friday yielded counterfeit "branded products" - including cosmetics such as facewash, skin foundation, hair oil, lip balm - worth over Rs 50 lakh.

The dermatology department at Medinirai Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) here attends to nearly 6,000 patients a year. However, for the past one year, the department is functioning without a specialist.

The Gandhi Maidan police on Friday night arrested two insurance agents, Vikas Kumar Singh and dilip kumar singh, from Kankerbagh for allegedly depositing their client's money in a private bank account.