NEW DELHI, March 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Modern State of Bihar was carved out of Bengal Presidency on 22 March 1912.

By ARUN KUMAR PATNA: Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar has expressed anguish over the poor medicare facilities at the hospital in the flood-affected Saharsa district.

By Thakur, C P Paromomycin, an aminoglycoside, is known to cause several side effects like nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity like other aminoglycosides but tetany has not been reported. Three cases of tetany were detected in the patients of kala-azar treated with paromomycin.

By Sanjeev Kumar Verma PATNA: First it was the waterlogging which posed threat to the animals of Patna zoo, and now it is the threat of diseases as the accumulated water has started drying. A large part of zoo is enveloped by the foul smell of stagnant water.

NEW DELHI: Natural calamities can blur political lines, providing at least briefly, a respite from relentless rivalries. But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's flight to Bihar on Thursday to assess the Kosi disaster looked like a UPA delegation.