Bihar Flag Hoisting

The Bihar government today decided to not have its 13 ministers hoisting the Tricolour on Republic Day keeping in view the continuing Covid-19 conditions in the state. This, however, also signals that the much-delayed cabinet expansion may now happen only after January 26.

A photo allegedly of Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MLA from Bihar's Sheohar, Sharfuddin went viral on the internet recently showing the legislator failing to saluting the tricolour during an Independence Day flag hoisting ceremony.

A scuffle broke out between a teacher, who identified himself as Afzal Hussain, and locals at a primary school at Katihar in Bihar on Wednesday, after the former allegedly refused to say ''Vande Mataram'' following flag-hoisting ceremony on the Republic Day.

Officials of Nalanda district in Bihar today went into a tizzy over reports regarding hoisting of a flag resembling the national flag of Pakistan at a house located in Kharadi colony.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hoisted the national flag in Patna on Independence Day and said that the state was on the path of justice-laced development.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hoisted the national flag in Patna today and said the state was on the path of justice-laced development.

On Independence Day, as a group of Dalits gathered in a village in Bihar's Rohtas district to hoist the national flag outside a temple of their icon, Sant Ravidas, violence broke out. A group of upper caste Rajputs from the same village, Baddi, enraged that they were not allowed to fly the flag at the same location, attacked them.

A Dalit man was beaten to death and at least 12 others, including old women and children, severely injured as upper castes in the village allegedly attacked them for trying to hoist the national flag outside a temple belonging to the community.

The upper-caste men attacked the Dalits after they allegedly defied a diktat not to unfurl the flag in front of a temple of Guru Ravidas, a lower-caste saint prominent with Dalits across the country.

The Bihar government today decided to not have its 13 ministers hoisting the Tricolour on Republic Day keeping in view the continuing Covid-19 conditions in the state. This, however, also signals that the much-delayed cabinet expansion may now happen only after January 26.

A photo allegedly of Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MLA from Bihar's Sheohar, Sharfuddin went viral on the internet recently showing the legislator failing to saluting the tricolour during an Independence Day flag hoisting ceremony.

A scuffle broke out between a teacher, who identified himself as Afzal Hussain, and locals at a primary school at Katihar in Bihar on Wednesday, after the former allegedly refused to say ''Vande Mataram'' following flag-hoisting ceremony on the Republic Day.

Officials of Nalanda district in Bihar today went into a tizzy over reports regarding hoisting of a flag resembling the national flag of Pakistan at a house located in Kharadi colony.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hoisted the national flag in Patna on Independence Day and said that the state was on the path of justice-laced development.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hoisted the national flag in Patna today and said the state was on the path of justice-laced development.

On Independence Day, as a group of Dalits gathered in a village in Bihar's Rohtas district to hoist the national flag outside a temple of their icon, Sant Ravidas, violence broke out. A group of upper caste Rajputs from the same village, Baddi, enraged that they were not allowed to fly the flag at the same location, attacked them.

A Dalit man was beaten to death and at least 12 others, including old women and children, severely injured as upper castes in the village allegedly attacked them for trying to hoist the national flag outside a temple belonging to the community.

The upper-caste men attacked the Dalits after they allegedly defied a diktat not to unfurl the flag in front of a temple of Guru Ravidas, a lower-caste saint prominent with Dalits across the country.