Chargesheet filed in mid-day meal tragedy in Bihar

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 15:13

Three months after 23 children died after eating contaminated meals, a chargesheet has been filed against the suspended principal and her husband in the mid-day meal tragedy in a primary school at Dharmasati Gandaman village of Saran district.

Never called mid-day meal a political conspiracy: Nitish Kumar

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 00:14

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday that he had never stated that the mid-day meal tragedy a political conspiracy.

Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: Accused surrenders in court

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 16:51

Arjun Rai, an accused in the mid-day meal tragedy case that claimed lives of 23 children in Bihar`s Saran district two months ago, surrendered on Monday in a local court.

Mid-day meal deaths: Principal sent to judicial custody

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 22:37

The principal of a Bihar school, where 23 children died last month after eating contaminated food, was sent to judicial custody.

Chapra mid-day meal tragedy failure of Bihar Govt: Kirti Azad

Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 12:25

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirti Azad took potshots at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has alleged a conspiracy in the Chapra mid-deal meal deaths.

Millions of Bihar school kids go without mid-day meal

Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 09:03

A week after the death of 23 children from eating a contaminated mid-day meal in Saran district, three lakh school teachers in Bihar have decided to boycott the mid-day meal scheme from Thursday.

Mid-day meal tragedy: Notice pasted at principal`s home

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 16:21

A notice declaring as proclaimed offender the absconding principal of Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School has been pasted at her home.

Saran school to be tagged with nearby middle school

Last Updated: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 16:26

The primary school in Bihar that witnessed the death of 23 children due to consumption of poisonous mid-day meal will cease to function from present location.

Case of poisoned food rather than food poisoning: Bihar govt

Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 16:08

The blamegame over the responsibility of the deaths of 23 children continued when the state government blamed the school authorities for the tragedy.

Mid-day meal tragedy jolts Bihar

Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 15:43

The Bihar government is set to issue stringent instructions for quality check and improving infrastructural facilities.

Bihar mid-day meal toll rises to 23

Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 14:15

One more child has died in the mid-day meal tragedy in Chapra taking the toll to 23, while 25 others were under treatment in Patna Medical College and Hospital.