Patna: A silent eye-health crisis is showing up in preschool and kindergarten classrooms across Bihar, with doctors reporting a sharp rise in children wearing corrective spectacles at a very young age. Ophthalmologists say childhood myopia, or near sightedness, has increased rapidly after the pandemic, driven by prolonged screen exposure and shrinking outdoor playtime.Doctors at Indira…

Bettiah: Three women were sent to judicial custody on Wednesday for allegedly attacking police personnel and obstructing a raid, enabling a cattle-smuggling suspect to escape from his house at Bhedihari village under the Purushottampur police station area in West Champaran. Police later recovered a country-made pistol, seized 10 cattle allegedly meant for smuggling and impounded…

Patna: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved the govt’s proposal to establish a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) linking Patna with Gaya, Begusarai, Hajipur, Sonepur, Muzaffarpur and Ara to facilitate faster movement of passengers through four corridors on the pattern of the National Capital Region (NCR), Delhi. It also approved a proposal to set up…

Ara: A 34-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Badki Kharaon village under Sahar police station area in Bhojpur district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Vikrant Kumar Singh, a resident of the village, who had an old land dispute with a co-villager, police said.According to the police, Vikrant…

Bettiah: Panic gripped residents after two pairs of wild bears entered residential area of the water resources department’s E-Type Colony in Valmikinagar, along the Indo-Nepal border in West Champaran district on Tuesday night. Forest department has stepped up patrolling in the area after wild animals entered homes and damaged property.According to Braj Kishore Raut, a…