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Ruchir Kumar

Ruchir writes on health, aviation, power and myriad other issues. An ex-TOI, he has worked both on Desk and in reporting. He over 25 years of broadcast and print journalism experience in Assam, Jharkhand & Bihar.

Articles by Ruchir Kumar

Bihar man donates organs, gives new lease of life to six in Gujarat

Despite their overwhelming grief, Yadav’s family made the courageous decision to donate his vital organs, after he fell from a crane in Surat Gujarat on April 1

Patna

Published on Apr 18, 2025 05:19 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Bihar Budget 2025-26: Nitish govt announces plans to develop 15 airports

The Bihar government has already proposed the development of a greenfield international airport near Patna to cater to the growth in the civil aviation sector over the next 50-70 years.

Bihar deputy CM and finance minister Samrat Choudhary at the assembly before presenting 2025-26 state budget on Monday. (Santosh Kumar/ HT Photo)

Patna

Published on Mar 04, 2025 01:52 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Need to develop medical infrastructure further in Bihar: President

The President said though the Bihar government had done a lot to develop medical infrastructure in the state, more needed to be done.

The President said decentralisation of good medical institutions across the country would prove helpful in removing the problems patients face when they go out of the state for treatment. (PTI)

education news

Published on Feb 26, 2025 10:58 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Cyber slavery, cyber frauds on the rise in Bihar

Vaishali’s Mohammed Arshad, 34, regrets not being able to attend the burial of his father-in-law Md Kamaal, 56.

The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, commonly referred to as I4C, in June last year shared with police a list of 347 people from Bihar who went on tourist/visitor visas to southeast Asian countries including Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, since 2022, but did not return. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)

Patna

Updated on Feb 12, 2025 06:10 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Bihar: Schools till Class 8 closed in Patna, Darbhanga due to cold

All schools for children up to class 8 in Darbhanga and Patna will remain closed till January 17 and 18, respectively, due to prevalent cold weather

Vehicles crossing in low visibility due to fog at JP Setu in Patna, Bihar, India, Wednesday,15, 2025.(Santosh Kumar/ Hindustan Times)

education news

Updated on Jan 16, 2025 08:11 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Patna schools up to class 8 closed till January 11 due to cold

Classes for grades 9 and above will proceed between 9 am and 3:30 pm, with board exam activities exempted from the order.

Patna schools up to class 8 closed till January 11 (Representative image)

Education

Updated on Jan 06, 2025 08:56 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Delhi-Shillong SpiceJet flight lands in Patna after technical glitch

A SpiceJet flight from Delhi to Shillong was diverted to Patna due to a crack in the cockpit windshield. All passengers landed safely.

The aircraft has been temporarily grounded (HT File Photo)

India News

Updated on Dec 09, 2024 01:11 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Tractor breaks down near Patna airport runway, holds up Indigo flight in sky

Dr Satyajit Sinha, who was on the Indigo flight from Kolkata, said the flight landed at about 7:50am and was about 40 minutes behind schedule.

Patna

Updated on Nov 15, 2024 10:38 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Govt removes Patna’s AIIMS executive director who was indicted by inquiry panel

Dr Saurabh Varshney, executive director of AIIMS Deoghar, has been told to hold additional responsibility as AIIMS Patna ED

Patna

Updated on Nov 05, 2024 04:11 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Non-creamy layer tag for Patna AIIMS head’s son under probe

Sons and daughters of group A/class I officers of the all-India Central and state services (direct recruits) come under creamy layer, and are not entitled to the benefit of reservation of 27% for OBCs in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

India News

Published on Sep 24, 2024 08:33 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Work on Darbhanga AIIMS to begin soon: Nadda

A new agency has been appointed. Its structural design is being made, and soon we will make an impressive AIIMS in Darbhanga, Nadda said.

BJP president and Union health minister J P Nadda with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and others at the inauguration of the eye building of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science hospital in Patna. (HT photo)

Patna

Published on Sep 06, 2024 09:19 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

99-year-old PMCH gets nod for superspecialty course in nephrology, neurology

Patna Medical College & Hospital got the nod for commencement of medical superspecialty courses in nephrology, neurology in its 99th year of existence.

Admission News

Published on Sep 03, 2024 08:09 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Patna AIIMS gets nod to begin kidney transplants

The approval comes almost three years after the AIIMS had, on October 8, 2021, moved a request to the state health department for grant of certificate of registration for kidney transplant.

Patna

Updated on Aug 27, 2024 09:09 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

When the chips were down, she took a shot

From wearing her hair in a plait and helping her parents in the fields bare feet to cropping her hair short and donning spikes with shorts and T-shirt, Ruby Kumari, 16, has dribbled a long way from the lush fields of Bihar to some of the best football grounds in India, playing for her home state.

A Dalit girl from Narindrapur, a nondescript village in Siwan’s Ziradei block, the hometown of India’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad, Ruby was born to a poor family and her, Surendra Ram, worked at a brick kiln before turning a farmer.

India News

Updated on Aug 17, 2024 08:10 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Bihar govt hands over 150-acre land to Centre for AIIMS Darbhanga

The health ministry had on July 25 given its approval for construction of AIIMS at Ekmi Shobhan bypass in Darbhanga

Patna

Updated on Aug 12, 2024 04:43 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Nitish Kumar calls budget “progressive”; Tejashwi Yadav says it lacked revival plan

The statement comes on the day when Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced major announcements for Bihar while presenting the budget

Nitish Kumar expressed his happiness after the state announced major financial outlay in the budget. (ANI photo)

Patna

Updated on Jul 23, 2024 07:57 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Arun Kumar

Bihar man files FIR against neighbour after electric fence kills 4 street dogs

Sushil Kumar Singh said he will pursue the FIR to its logical conclusion to ensure justice for the four dogs that were killed by the electric fence

Uday Kumar, SHO of the Ekma police station, said they were waiting for the postmortem report (Anipixels.com via Peta India)

Patna

Updated on Jul 17, 2024 09:48 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

14 barred Patanjali products sold across counter at dedicated stores

HT visited Patanjali stores across four major Indian cities — New Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and Dehradun — and was able to procure most of these products, procuring a receipt in each of these cases.

India News

Published on Jul 11, 2024 09:27 AM IST

ByJignasa Sinha, Sanjeev K Jha, Ruchir Kumar, Amit Bathla, New Delhi/lucknow/patna/ Dehradun

First time MP: ‘I practised the oath so that I don’t stumble’

This week, Shambhavi Choudhury returned to Delhi as the first woman parliamentarian from Samastipur, Bihar.

An alumna of LSR and Delhi School of Economics, Shambhavi Choudhury was a director in a Patna school for a few years. (Arvind Yadav/ Hindustan Times)

India News

Updated on Jul 02, 2024 06:16 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, New Delhi/patna

21 newly elected Bihar Lok Sabha MPs have declared criminal cases: ADR report

The lone independent candidate Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav from Purnia, has declared 41 criminal cases against himself

Of the 12 BJP MPs, as many as eight (67%) have declared criminal cases. (Representative file photo)

Patna

Published on Jun 19, 2024 11:19 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

LS polls: Campaign ends, 8 seats in Bihar up for grabs in last lap

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ramkripal Yadav, R K Singh and Misa Bharti are among the key faces in the fray in the last phase

Patna

Published on May 30, 2024 09:35 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Subhash Pathak, Patna

Bihar to explore imparting medical education in Hindi

The Bihar government has asked a three member team to submit its report by June 5.

Education

Published on May 29, 2024 09:35 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Lok Sabha polls: Legacy, development aspirations key factors in Hajipur seat

In Hajipur, Gunjan Kumar seeks employment and leans towards RJD, while his father supports PM Modi.

Ram Vilas Paswan’s brother Pasupati Paras is the Hajipur MP, but the seat has now been given to LJP (RV) chief Chirag Paswan. (HT Photo)

India News

Updated on May 18, 2024 01:15 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

Chirag Paswan might face stiff opposition from RJD’s Shiv Chandra Ram

Chirag is a two-time MP from Jamui but is contesting the Hajipur seat for the first time, ignoring his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, who was the sitting MP

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan (File Photo)

Analysis

Published on May 18, 2024 12:56 AM IST

ByRuchir Kumar

No cakewalk for Chirag in Hajipur amid silent Paras play

Hajipur is the headquarter town of Vaishali district. It is a Lok Sabha seat reserved for SCs. From 1977 to 2019, the seat was won eight times by Ram Vilas Paswan, who lost only twice, in 1984 and 2009.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chirag Paswan at his rally in Hajipur on May 13. (HT)

Patna

Published on May 17, 2024 09:18 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Worth ₹36 cr, Rohini richest candidate in Bihar in 5th phase

Rohini is married to Samresh Singh, a software engineer. The couple lived in Singapore before she decided to take the electoral plunge.

RJD candidate from Saran, Rohini Acharya, filed her nomination paper for Lok Sabha elections on April 29. (HT file)

Patna

Updated on May 12, 2024 09:42 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Seven doctors in LS fray in Bihar on party tickets, IMA backs

Misa Bharti and Rohini Acharya, two daughters of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, are the most prominent candidates among the doctors in the fray in the state, which has 40 Lok Sabha seats.

Patna

Published on May 10, 2024 09:53 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Losing deposit no bar for LS, assembly bids in Bihar

More than 80 per cent of candidates in Bihar have forfeited their security deposits in the last two parliamentary elections in the country as well as the assembly polls in the state.

Satyendra Baitha, an Independent candidate, rode a donkey to file his nomination for Gopalganj Lok Sabha seat recently.

Patna

Published on May 08, 2024 09:51 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

LS polls: Bihar sees 60% turnout in five seats in 3rd phase

A presiding officer at a polling booth in Supaul and a Home Guard jawan in Araria district passed away on Tuesday, allegedly due to a heart attack.

At a polling booth in Khagaria on Tuesday. (HT photo)

Patna

Published on May 07, 2024 09:48 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

Chirag, Rudy file nominations

In Saran, Rudy will be pitted against Lalu Prasad’s younger daughter Rohini Acharya, who is making her electoral debut. Chirag, who won from Jamui in 2014 and 2019, has returned to his father’s bastion of Hajipur.

BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy files his nomination for the Saran Lok Sabha seat on Thursday. (HT photo)

Patna

Updated on May 02, 2024 09:42 PM IST

ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

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Ruchir Kumar

Ruchir writes on health, aviation, power and myriad other issues. An ex-TOI, he has worked both on Desk and in reporting. He over 25 years of broadcast and print journalism experience in Assam, Jharkhand & Bihar.

Despite their overwhelming grief, Yadav’s family made the courageous decision to donate his vital organs, after he fell from a crane in Surat Gujarat on April 1

The Bihar government has already proposed the development of a greenfield international airport near Patna to cater to the growth in the civil aviation sector over the next 50-70 years.

The President said though the Bihar government had done a lot to develop medical infrastructure in the state, more needed to be done.

Vaishali’s Mohammed Arshad, 34, regrets not being able to attend the burial of his father-in-law Md Kamaal, 56.

All schools for children up to class 8 in Darbhanga and Patna will remain closed till January 17 and 18, respectively, due to prevalent cold weather

Classes for grades 9 and above will proceed between 9 am and 3:30 pm, with board exam activities exempted from the order.

A SpiceJet flight from Delhi to Shillong was diverted to Patna due to a crack in the cockpit windshield. All passengers landed safely.

Dr Satyajit Sinha, who was on the Indigo flight from Kolkata, said the flight landed at about 7:50am and was about 40 minutes behind schedule.

Dr Saurabh Varshney, executive director of AIIMS Deoghar, has been told to hold additional responsibility as AIIMS Patna ED

Sons and daughters of group A/class I officers of the all-India Central and state services (direct recruits) come under creamy layer, and are not entitled to the benefit of reservation of 27% for OBCs in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

A new agency has been appointed. Its structural design is being made, and soon we will make an impressive AIIMS in Darbhanga, Nadda said.

Patna Medical College & Hospital got the nod for commencement of medical superspecialty courses in nephrology, neurology in its 99th year of existence.

The approval comes almost three years after the AIIMS had, on October 8, 2021, moved a request to the state health department for grant of certificate of registration for kidney transplant.

From wearing her hair in a plait and helping her parents in the fields bare feet to cropping her hair short and donning spikes with shorts and T-shirt, Ruby Kumari, 16, has dribbled a long way from the lush fields of Bihar to some of the best football grounds in India, playing for her home state.

The health ministry had on July 25 given its approval for construction of AIIMS at Ekmi Shobhan bypass in Darbhanga

The statement comes on the day when Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced major announcements for Bihar while presenting the budget

Sushil Kumar Singh said he will pursue the FIR to its logical conclusion to ensure justice for the four dogs that were killed by the electric fence

HT visited Patanjali stores across four major Indian cities — New Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and Dehradun — and was able to procure most of these products, procuring a receipt in each of these cases.

This week, Shambhavi Choudhury returned to Delhi as the first woman parliamentarian from Samastipur, Bihar.

The lone independent candidate Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav from Purnia, has declared 41 criminal cases against himself

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ramkripal Yadav, R K Singh and Misa Bharti are among the key faces in the fray in the last phase

The Bihar government has asked a three member team to submit its report by June 5.

In Hajipur, Gunjan Kumar seeks employment and leans towards RJD, while his father supports PM Modi.

Chirag is a two-time MP from Jamui but is contesting the Hajipur seat for the first time, ignoring his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, who was the sitting MP

Hajipur is the headquarter town of Vaishali district. It is a Lok Sabha seat reserved for SCs. From 1977 to 2019, the seat was won eight times by Ram Vilas Paswan, who lost only twice, in 1984 and 2009.

Rohini is married to Samresh Singh, a software engineer. The couple lived in Singapore before she decided to take the electoral plunge.

Misa Bharti and Rohini Acharya, two daughters of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, are the most prominent candidates among the doctors in the fray in the state, which has 40 Lok Sabha seats.

More than 80 per cent of candidates in Bihar have forfeited their security deposits in the last two parliamentary elections in the country as well as the assembly polls in the state.

A presiding officer at a polling booth in Supaul and a Home Guard jawan in Araria district passed away on Tuesday, allegedly due to a heart attack.

In Saran, Rudy will be pitted against Lalu Prasad’s younger daughter Rohini Acharya, who is making her electoral debut. Chirag, who won from Jamui in 2014 and 2019, has returned to his father’s bastion of Hajipur.

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