First Class Judicial Magistrate Vijay Kishore Singh had on September 25, 2011 asked Satyarthy, who was earlier the party MLA from Kharagpur, to appear before him by December 24, 2011 in connection with the charge under section 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 420 (fraud), official sources said today.

Ramchandra Yadav, a contractor, had filed a complaint case against Satyarthy accusing him of taking commission of Rs 1.40 lakh from him in Febraury 2007 when he sought job from him under the MLA Local Area Development Fund, they said.

The Chief Judicial Magistrate had ordered the First Class Judicial Magistrate to hold an inquiry and it was during the process of holding the inquiry that the cour took cognizance of the complaint and issued summon to the lawmaker.

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NDS today announced that Darsh Digital Pvt. Ltd., an independent cable operator in India, has selected an end-to-end suite of technologies from NDS to enable the launch of their digital pay-TV service. Headquartered in Patna, Bihar with an existing base of analogue subscribers, the new service from Darsh Digital will provide enhanced functionality and value-added content for subscribers.

Enabled by NDS’ MediaHighway(R) set-top box software, and secured by VideoGuard(R) conditional access (CAS), the new platform will incorporate an advanced electronic programme guide (EPG), designed by NDS, alongside interactive functionality such as games and services to compliment the content offering which will include more than 200 channels currently carried on the Darsh analogue platform.

Commenting on the announcement, Sushil Kumar, Director, Darsh Digital Network said “Launching a digital platform provides great opportunity for us to differentiate our offering with additional content, games and interactivity.” He added “With the future proof nature of our solution from NDS we are able to add new functionality and services to our platform as subscriber demand dictates.”

Jayant Changrani, Country Head and General Manager, NDS India added “In a rapidly growing market Darsh Digital is positioning itself with a solution that addresses the needs of its subscribers, both existing and new.” He continued, “We are proud to be Darsh Digital’s provider of choice and look forward to supporting it through developments to its service.”

NDS will continue to work closely with Darsh Digital to deliver a raft of affordable, innovative solutions and services to its growing subscriber base.

About Darsh Digital Network Pvt. Ltd.

Darsh Digital Network Pvt. Ltd. (DDNPL) was established on 13th Aug. 2008 and gained massive popularity within a very short period i.e. approx 2 years by covering maximum area of PATNA DISTRICT , SITAMARHI, DARBHANGA , JAMALPUR (MUNGER DISTRICT) , JAHANABAD which gradually became the biggest cable network . DARSH DIGITAL has strong arm in regional TV broadcasting with channels Such as Darsh Music, Darsh Entertainment, Darsh Cinema and Darsh News.

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NDS Group Ltd. creates the technologies and applications that enable pay-TV operators to securely deliver digital content to TV STBs (set-top boxes), DVRs (digital video recorders), PCs, mobiles and other multimedia devices. Over 80 of the world’s leading pay-TV platforms rely on NDS solutions to protect and enhance their businesses. VideoGuard(R) is the world’s market-leading conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technology, currently deployed on 155 million active devices, and safeguarding pay-TV service revenues exceeding $50 billion. NDS middleware, including MediaHighway(R) which enables a host of advanced services for subscribers, has been deployed on 195 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTV(TM), leads the global industry with 41 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 30th June 2011).

Headquartered in the UK, with over 5000 employees, NDS remains committed to investing in R&D with over 75% of its employees dedicated to pioneering work at development centres in China, France, India, Israel, Korea, UK and US. NDS has also implemented a host of initiatives aimed at reducing its carbon footprint and helping digital TV subscribers reduce energy consumption.

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Jamalpur, Bihar:- The Jamalpur workshop of Indian Railways has bagged orders from Rail India Technology and Economic Services (RITES) to manufacture diesel locomotives. It would manufacture locomotives after a lapse of 88 years.

These locomotives will be of WDS6 type. The workshop would initially manufacture three such locomotives at an estimated cost of Rs 2.33 crore, said chief works manager (CWM), Jamalpur workshop, Animesh Sinha. According to him, the workshop would get a boost with the RITES orders. It is rich in technical expertise and has all the modern facilities available at any workshop of railways across the country, he said.

Sinha told TOI that the Jamalpur workshop has become the only workshop in the country capable of manufacturing all four types of rolling stocks for railways namely diesel locomotives, cranes, tower cars and goods wagons of different types, including BOX-NHL, BLC and BVZI. Besides, it is the main hub of repair centre of locomotives, cranes, tower cars and other equipments for railways, he said adding periodical overhauling of rolling stock has been the mainstay of the workshop.

Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-20/patna/29793532_1_locomotives-workshop-rail-india-technology

The railways has chalked out an ambitious plan for modernization of the 150-year-old railway workshop at Jamalpur in Munger district at an estimated cost of Rs 117.46 crore.

Under the new plan, the railways would further improve its infrastructure to cope with the demands of new technology to manufacture rail components as well as to carry out maintenance work of locomotives, cranes and wagons smoothly.

According to chief works manager (CWM) Animesh Sinha, the Jamalpur workshop had come into being on February 8, 1862. It was the first workshop of the country to manufacture steam engine CA 764 `Lady Curzon’ in 1899 at a cost of Rs 33,000 only. Besides, it was the first to establish a rail foundry in 1893 whereas it had set up a rolling mill in 1870 to fulfill the needs of the railways, he said.

Source: TOI

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Hundreds of locals took to streets and went on a rampage protesting the power crisis.

They vandalised the office of PHED and Municipal Corporation, besides burning tyres on the road.

They later ransacked Sultanganj railway station and burnt wooden sleepers of the tracks, disrupting rail traffic in Bhagalpur-Jamalpur section of Eastern Railway for more than two hours, official sources said.

They clashed with police, provoking a special auxiliary police (SAP) jawan to open warning shots in the air, sources said.

Situation was controlled following heavy deployment of security forces in the area, officials said.

The police registered an FIR against 900 unnamed agitators in connection with yesterday”s violence over power crisis in adjoining Bhagalpur town, the police said.

Source: http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5083453

Bihar has the potential to be developed as an ancillary zone of the railways as most of the railway components will be manufactured here in the future barring coach manufacturing factory. The railways has already pooled about Rs 55,000 crore for developing railway network in Bihar, they said.

According to these experts, Bangalore has become a hub of IT centre as it has been developed under a planned manner as ancillary zone. The city has all the required infrastructure like electricity, roads and communication system etc to set up new factories there. Besides, the law and order is also better there for any industry to flourish, they said, adding Bihar has now an ideal atmosphere for making investments in any big plant or project .

The decision of the ministry of railways to set up new factories in north Bihar, including wheel factory, diesel locomotive and electric locomotive factories, and goods wagons and passenger wagons maintenance workshops would improve the socio-economic condition in Bihar, the experts said, adding suspension of these two major projects at this stage would hamper railway development work in the state.

The railways has major factories at Jamalpur, Chitranjan and Varanasi. Barring Varanasi , these other two factories have no ancillary support. That could be the reason the railways decided to develop the entire north Bihar as ancillary zone. At present, the railways has been paying sales and other taxes in crores to other states by way of purchasing rail components and other machineries. Development of Bihar as an ancillary zone will augment the state government s revenue, admitted an ECR official.

According to former railway chief engineer G N Sahay, the wheel and locomotive factories being set up in Bihar will require materials like nuts, bolts and screws in bulks. Besides, these factories will need electrical components too. The railways could fulfil these demands only when several ancillary factories are developed to support the main industries, he said.

Besides, these projects will provide employment to the local people. The railway colonies will come up providing indirect economic support to a large number of people who could earn their livelihood, the experts said.

The railways’ projects in Bihar include wheel factory at Chhapra (Rs 1,417.23crore ), diesel locomotive manufacturing factory at Marhaura in Sararn district (Rs 2,025 crore), coach maintenance workshop at Harnaut (Rs 225 crore), goods wagon repair workshop at Sonepur (Rs 90 crore), DEMU maintenance depot at Sonepur (Rs 15 crore), wagon repair workshop at Samastipur (Rs 33 crore), electric locomotive manufacturing factory at Madhepura (Rs 1,400 crore ) and concrete sleeper factories at Madhepura, Sitamarhi and Chaksikandar ( Rs 15 crore).

Meanwhile, deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi urged railway minister Mamata Banerjee not to suspend the two major projects. Instead the railways must provide funds in the ensuing railway budget for these projects, he said.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Suspension-of-railway-projects-a-setback-for-state-Expert/articleshow/7414547.cms

Situated about 30 km from Gopalganj, this school, known as Chaitanya Gurukul Public School, was founded in 2009 by an ex-IITian, Chandrakant Singh, now based in Bangalore.

Bereft of electricity till date, about 450 children, both boys and girls, are imparted lessons in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer through Skype, video conferencing and Internet. Eight of Singh’s associates, sitting in various corners of the world, have joined hands to teach children right from Class I to Class VII, through video-conferencing. Apart from distance learning, 16 teachers, who reside on the campus, are helping the students in their studies. Here, teachers mark their attendance using a biometric finger-printer and students too log their attendance in computers.

The computers run on gensets owned by the school. Once computers were in place, the teaching did not have to wait. Pankaj Kumar of NTPC, a technocrat, teaches physics from Singrauli. Working with HAL, Sanjay Rai, an alumnus from BITS, Pilani, teaches chemistry from Korwa in UP, while M Vats, a US-based technocrat teachers math.

“With a view to providing world-class, technology-enabled education to the children of this backward village, where I was born and where I had my primary schooling, I set up this institution,” said Singh.

The push came when the Mahartashtra Navnirman Sena was attacking Bihari migrants in Mumbai. Singh then decided to do something immediately for his home town. “I was greatly disturbed, and wanted to arrest the migration of students from Bihar in my small way,” he said.

He then sought the advice of Surya Narayan, dean of IIT, Bombay, who was his teacher also. Narayan suggested him to make a plan for revenue-generating, self-sustaining model instead of taking the charity route. Singh then prepared a blueprint and e-mailed it to 3,000 friends, eight of whom agreed to fund it.

After the state government approved the proposal, the friends, who formed a trust, met the villagers and convinced them about the school. Within three months, they had 13 acres of land — from 100 villagers, who sold plots from 3 decimals to an acre in the area. Soon a big building started coming up, a part of which is still under construction.

With quality class rooms and campus, tuition fee starts from Rs 300 for Class I and is increased annually by Rs 100 as a child goes to a higher class. However, the school is run on self-sustaining basis, and not for profit. Chandrakant himself is doing his job, but takes classes through video-conferencing. Every year, one more class is sought to be opened at the school.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Ex-IITian-starts-world-class-school-in-Bihar-village/articleshow/7419365.cms

ASP LS Vamanrao Lande said one loaded carbine, two magazines with 20 rounds of live cartridges were recovered from the possession of Pappu Singh. The ASP said Pappu, a resident of village Charon under the Nayaramnagar police station in the district, is the leader of a gang of criminals.

Pappu’s gang had killed Khemchandra Saha, a Jamalpur-based trader, about six months ago because he had failed to pay extortion money to the gang.

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