With over 25 years of journalistic experience, he has expertise in health and environment reporting. He also reports on politics, covering the BJP in Bihar.
Articles by Binod Dubey
Patna stampede: Govt transfers four top doctors
The Bihar government Tuesday suspended the superintendent of the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) Dr Lakhendra Prasad and slapped show-cause notices on PMCH doctors Dr Vishwendra Kumar Sinha, Dr Ajit Bahadur Singh and Dr Ajit Singh for dereliction of duty.
Updated on Oct 08, 2014 12:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Lake bursts in Nepal, Bihar sounds flood alert in Kosi
The Bihar government on Sunday sounded a fresh alert in flood-prone districts falling in the Kosi belt of north Bihar following a heavy discharge in the downstream of the Sun Kosi in Nepal, caused by incessant rain in catchment areas of the Himalayan country.
Updated on Sep 08, 2014 01:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Aditya N Jha & Utpal Parashar, Patna/supaul/kathmandu
Bihar seeks central assistance to combat floods
Faced with an alarming flood situation, the Bihar government on Wednesday sought central assistance on an emergency basis, even as the floods claimed two more lives in the state in the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 17.
Updated on Aug 20, 2014 08:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
In Bihar, even chief minister Manjhi pays a bribe
Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi raked up controversy on Tuesday by accusing the Nitish Kumar government of being unable to check corruption in the state and admitting to have given bribe once.
Updated on Aug 14, 2014 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Bihar downgrades its alert status for 9 Kosi districts
The Bihar government downgraded its alert status for nine Kosi districts, following a central assurance, that the fear of deluge had passed for the moment and Indian and Nepalese engineers were at work at Sindhupalchok district, where a landslide last Saturday, had pent up waters of the Sun Kosi.
Updated on Aug 05, 2014 06:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey & Ruchir Kumar, Patna
No immediate flood threat in Kosi, says Bihar CM
The build-up to the grim situation in Bihar followed a deadly landslide in Nepal, which created a mud dam blocking the Bhote Kosi river, which runs into Bihar as the Kosi. The landslide killed at least nine people.
Updated on Aug 04, 2014 08:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Aloke Tikku and Binod Dubey, New Delhi/patna
We can do nothing but pray, says minister about Kosi flood
The water resources department of the Bihar government on Saturday lifted all the 56 gates of the Birpur Kosi barrage to deflect the pressure of the gushing water, which it is expecting to flow into India within the next 12 hours — by 5am Sunday.
Updated on Aug 03, 2014 12:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
BJP’s ‘Mission 175’ for Bihar polls
The meeting of the executive committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Patna on Saturday sounded the bugle for the Bihar assembly polls in 2015. The saffron party indicated that the NDA would declare its CM candidate two months in advance.
Updated on Jul 19, 2014 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Bihar disease a mystery, says health minister
During his first visit to Bihar as Union minister for health and family welfare, Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday accepted that the disease sweeping north Bihar was a ‘mystery’, the cause and etiology of which was unknown.
Updated on Jun 23, 2014 12:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
All terrorists belong to 'particular community': Giriraj
Senior BJP leader Giriraj Singh kicked up yet another storm by saying, 'all terrorists caught in the country belong to one particular community'. He also advocated a re-look into Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special autonomous status to J&K
Updated on May 15, 2014 06:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey & PTI, Patna
Now, CP Thakur says BJP might form Bihar govt after LS polls
A day after Sushil Kumar Modi said, "over 50 JD(U) legislators are in touch with the BJP" and were helping BJP candidates in polls, the national BJP vice-president CP Thakur said he was in favour of his party forming the government in Bihar.
Updated on May 07, 2014 09:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Sushil Modi hints at action against Giriraj Singh for communal statement
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday said the party was contemplating action against former animal husbandry minister and BJP nominee from Nawada, Giriraj Singh for his controversial remarks at a recent election meeting.
Updated on Apr 22, 2014 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Nitish's PM ambitions led to collapse of BJP-JD(U) alliance: Modi
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday hit out at the Third Front during the second rally in Bihar's Purnia after his party announced an alliance with Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).
Updated on Mar 10, 2014 08:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Purnia (bihar)
Rebellion hits Bihar BJP after LJP pact
Days after the BJP welcomed Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP back into the NDA fold, the saffron party was on Tuesday hit by serious rebellion within its ranks in Bihar.
Updated on Mar 05, 2014 12:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, New Delhi
Modi mocks Third Front, attacks Nitish
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday launched his sharpest attack on the 'Third Front' and it’s 'secularism' plank, calling the Front 'poll-eve players' who were trying to divide people for their vote banks.
Updated on Mar 07, 2014 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Kumar Uttam and Binod Dubey, Muzzaffarpur
Narendra Modi takes a dig at Nitish Kumar, says Bihar a safe haven for terrorists
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi once again attacked his arch rival and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in the latter's home turf by calling him a hypocrite and saying the state had become a safe haven for terrorists.
Updated on Mar 03, 2014 08:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Fighting polio was toughest in Bihar, UP
Though India’s last polio case occurred in West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were states where the fight against the wild polio virus was the toughest. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have not reported any case of polio since April 2010 and September 2010, respectively, but the state governments are closely monitoring the immunisation programme to ensure all children are vaccinated.
Updated on Jan 12, 2014 09:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Kumar Singh and Binod Dubey, Lucknow/patna
India ‘winning’ battle against HIV-AIDS: UNAIDS report
India’s fight against HIV-AIDS is bearing fruit. The UNAIDS Report-2013 on HIV said that the country has reduced new HIV infections by as much as 57% among adults since 2001. Binod Dubey reports.
Updated on Nov 20, 2013 03:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Bangkok
Patna rail station bomber’s condition critical
The man suspected of carrying out the blasts at Patna railway station on October 27 continues to be in a critical condition at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) in Patna.
Updated on Oct 30, 2013 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Dethrone central and Bihar govts: Rajnath, Jaitley
The day Narendra Modi “takes oath as Prime Minister of the country,” both Pakistan and China will stop intimidating India, BJP president Rajnath Singh said in Patna on Sunday.
Updated on Oct 28, 2013 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey and Ashok Mishra, Patna
Conspiracy by vested interests, says Nitish; BJP screams 'criminal negligence'
Hours after the serial blasts at the Narendra Modi rally venue in Patna on Sunday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar sounded defensive in face of BJP allegations of “lax security” and “criminal negligence”.
Updated on Oct 28, 2013 01:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashok Mishra and Binod Dubey, Patna
Pranab's Patna visit date to scuttle Modi rally: BJP
BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi in Patna said coinciding the President's visit with the Narendra Modi rally appeared 'deliberate' as the party had announced October 27 as the date of its 'hunkar' rally on March 20.
Updated on Oct 07, 2013 08:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Met department warns Bihar of 'havoc rain'
Likely cloudburts and heavy end-monsoon precipitation in the Himalayan tracts in the next 72 hours, have raised visions a nightmare situation for lakhs of people in North Bihar, especially Mithila, Champaran's and Kosi division, officials said here on Saturday. They have sounded a full alert, while asking people to be vigilant and identify safer areas to move to in distress.
Updated on Sep 07, 2013 10:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Gujarat to Bihar, Narendra Modi plans iron link
BJP mascot Narendra Modi soon hopes to have an iron grip on Bihar. His Hunkar rally of October will flag off an iron collection drive, meant to build a statue of the original Iron Man, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in Gujarat.
Updated on Aug 24, 2013 08:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
BJP chants ‘Modi for PM’ in Nitish’s Nalanda
The Bihar BJP yesterday kicked off its 2014 Lok Sabha poll by invoking the name of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on the home turf of his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar.
Updated on Jul 26, 2013 10:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Biharsharif (nalanda, Bihar)
Bihar: BJP gears up for Vishwasghat rally in Rajgir tomorrow
The BJP has made elaborate preparations for its much-hyped 'Viswasghat' (betrayal) rally, which it is being organised in Rajgir, Bihar on Thursday in chief minister Nitish Kumar's own backyard. Binod Dubey reports.
Updated on Jul 24, 2013 09:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Bihar
Bihar BJP accuses Nitish of provoking splits
The Bihar unit of the BJP on Monday blamed the JD(U) for engineering splits and initiating poaching to save its own 'minority government, and warned that there would be a vertical split in the JD(U) the day chief minister Nitish Kumar expands his council of ministers. Binod Dubey reports.
Updated on Jul 22, 2013 09:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
India's 'big power' status in doubt:, says RSS chief
Events in India in the past one year have put a question mark on the country’s claim to being a big power, according to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Updated on Jul 22, 2013 02:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
'RSS for strong India with Hindutva at its core'
Events in the country over the past year have put a question mark on India’s pretensions of being a big power in the world, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said here today.
Updated on Jul 21, 2013 09:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey, Patna
Those who betrayed NDA mandate in Bihar will be 'taught a lesson': Modi
In a veiled attack on friend-turned-foe Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Narendra Modi on Saturday said that those who had betrayed the NDA mandate in Bihar would be 'taught a lesson'. Binod Dubey and Vikas Pathak report.
Updated on Jul 07, 2013 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Binod Dubey and Vikas Pathak, Patna/new Delhi