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	Bhagalpur - LoveToKnow 1911
		BHAGALPUR, a city of British India, in the Behar province of Bengal, which gives its name to a district and to a division; situated on the right bank of the Ganges, 265 m.
		The climate of Bhagalpur partakes of the character both of the deltaic districts of Bengal and of the districts of Behar, between which it is situated.
		The Division Of Bhagalpur stretches across the Ganges from the Nepal frontier to the hills of Chota Nagpur.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bhagalpur (795 words)

	Bhagalpur - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Bhagalpur, city in north-eastern India, in Bihar State on the River Ganges.
		Bhagalpur is an important railway and commercial centre for the...
		Several universities are located in Bihar, including Bhagalpur University (founded in 1960) in Bhagalpur, the University of Bihar (1952) in...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Bhagalpur.html (83 words)

	Bhagalpur Travel Guide,Bhagalpur India Travel,Information on Bhagalpur India Travel
		At the close of 18th century, Bhagalpur was reduced to a mere pargana in the Monghyr sarkar.
		Khangah-i-Shahbazia, Mullachak, adjoining the Bhagalpur Railway Station continues to be a flourishing seminary under the care of the 13th generation of the descendants of Maulana Shahbaz.
		Bhagalpur is equally famous for Visharhi Asthan, the venue for the Bihula or the Mansa Puja held every July when the snakes are worshipped.
	www.indiasite.com /bihar/bhagalpur.html (3438 words)

	Silk City Bhagalpur
		Bhagalpur is a town and the administrative headquarters of Bhagalpur district, Bihar state in the eastern part of India.
		The tomb of Suja, brother of Moghul emperor Aurangzeb, in the heart of the Bhagalpur town is reminiscent of the city's association with the Mughal period.
		In 1980, Bhagalpur came into news when it was reported that the police blinded 31 undertrials (convicted criminals, according to some versions), by pouring acid into their eyes.
	www.angindia.com /angika_silk_city_bhagalpur.html (570 words)

	Lalu Prasad targets Sharad Yadav ahead of Bhagalpur by-polls
		By polls are being held in Bhagalpur and Nalanda Nov 6.
		Bhagalpur, known as the silk city, was badly hit by communal riots in 1989 when the Congress-led government was in power in the state.
		Interestingly, in Bhagalpur all are eyeing the Muslim vote bank and their support as it will decide the final outcome of the by-elections.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20061103/497431.html (559 words)

	Bhagalpur
		It is capital of Bhagalpur district The city is situated on the Ganges River, 120 miles southeast of Patna.
		Bhagalpur is a road and railroad junction and the trading center for a fertile area in which rice, wheat, corn, barley, oilseeds, and sugarcane are the chief corps.
		A sericulture institute and an agricultural-research station have been established, and the city is the seat of Bhagalpur University (1960).
	www.ashextourism.com /bihar/bhagalpur.htm (463 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bhagalpur, Aug. 28: Over 20 years after police blinded 31 undertrials in Bhagalpur, their harrowing tale will be reprised in a fictional film.
		The Bhagalpur blinding case had made criminal jurisprudence history by becoming the first in which the Supreme Court had ordered compensation for violation of basic human rights.
		But one of the reasons why Bhagalpur residents had taken out rallies in defence of the police officers who were suspended in the case is that they (the residents) had suffered a lot,” Prakash says.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030829/asp/nation/story_2311597.asp (659 words)

	Bhagalpur Diocese
		In 1956 Bhagalpur was cut off from the Diocese of Patna and Prefecture Apostolic was established by the Holy See.
		The present diocese is formed out the south-eastern portion of the Patna diocese and it comprises the district of Bhagalpur, Godda district of the Santhal Pargans Divisions, Deoghar and Sarawan thanas of the Santhal Parganas Division.
		Shortly after the part of the Giridih district, formerly of Ranchi Archdiocese, was likewise annexed to the Diocese of Bhagalpur.
	www.cbcisite.com /Bhagalpur.htm (333 words)

	INDOlink - Editorial Analysis - ´´GangaaJal" Unstitches Wounds of Baghalpur Blinding
		One of the 31 victims of the Bhagalpur blinding case, who survives narrates how he was taken to a secluded place and was told by the police that since he had committed a sin he need to be washed clean.
		Bhagalpur prison was not the isolated place where such an incident had taken place.
		Residents of Bhagalpur took out rallies in defence of the police officers saying their deterring act brought some respite into their daily sufferings.
	www.indolink.com /Analysis/a090403-092458.php (1081 words)

	NDA wins Nalanda, Bhagalpur bypolls
		Bihar's ruling National Democratic Alliance on Thursday retained the Bhagalpur and Nalanda Lok Sabha seats, inflicting a convincing defeat on the divided United Progressive Alliance and its Left Front partners.
		The by-elections in Bhagalpur were necessitated by the resignation of Sushil Kumar Modi after becoming deputy chief minister.
		In Bhagalpur, where Hussain won by 55,611 votes, his chances of victory would have been affected if the UPA and the Left had put up a joint candidate, observers said.
	specials.rediff.com /news/2006/nov/09bihar.htm (590 words)

	keshriWAP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bhagalpur is a town and the administerative headquarters of Bhagalpur district, Bihar state in the eastern part of India.Bhagalpur is a divisional town of historical importance situated on the southern bank of the Ganga river.
		It was the medieval centre to the conservation and propagation of Buddhist education, established by King Dharampal of Bengal (783-820) at the end of the 8th century.The gangetic plains are very fertile and the main crops include rice, wheat, maize, barley, and oilseeds.
		The economy of Bhagalpur is dependent mainly on agriculture and silk.HistoryEarly civilizations have fostered along the fertile coasts of the river Ganges.
	wapamp.com /users1/3keshriwap/bgp.php (394 words)

	Bhagalpur riot wounds continue to fester-Patna-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BHAGALPUR: This city, it is said, is burdened too much with history and by too many people who canât remember the past.
		But, the witnesses turning hostile and consequent acquittals during the past 13 years have more or less compelled the families of the victims of infamous Bhagalpur riots, to walk down the nightmare lane of traumatic communal violence.
		Rakesh Kumar Mishra, senior superintendent of police of Bhagalpur, does not agree that the communal hatred was still present in the district.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26612234 (618 words)

	Bhagalpur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Villagers often fled Bhagalpur due to the moans at night coming from the jungles of Bhagalpur.
		As a fall-out of the riots, the silk-weaving industry suffered a decline [6].
		Kadambini, daughter of Braja Kishore Bose, headmaster of Bhagalpur School, was one of the first women garduates in the Brtish Empire and the first woman doctor in South Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhagalpur (731 words)

	PD News - Bhagalpur Bandh Total
		The Bhagalpur bandh called by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday to protest the Thursday killing of a Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) official evoked good response with most commercial houses, schools, banks and even government offices keeping their doors closed.
		A march on the streets of Bhagalpur was led by the BJP MLA Ashwini Kumar Choubey who demanded immediate arrests of the criminals and removal of the Bhagalpur Superintendent of Police Ravindran Shankaran for failing to contain criminal activities in the district.
		Choubey, describing the bandh as total, appealed to the people of Bhagalpur to wake up and exercise their voting rights in the next state Assembly elections to show the exit door to the "criminal-raj" perpetuated by the Lalu-Rabri regime.
	www.patnadaily.com /news2004/090404/bhagalpur_bandh_total.html (267 words)

	Ghost of 1989 riots returns to Bhagalpur
		Another factor that should go in favour of BJP candidate is that five of the six assembly segments that constitute Bhagalpur parliamentary constituency are held by NDA legislators (four of JD-U and one BJP).
		While state BJP president Radha Mohan Singh is camping at Bhagalpur ever since Shahnawaz filed nomination, Sushil Kumar Modi, urban development minister and local legislator Ashwini Choubey and an array of party legislators and workers from all over the state have thronged here to ensure victory of their candidate.
		That the stakes for both NDA and RJD are very high in Bhagalpur can be gauged from the fact that both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad set aside three days from their busy schedule to address election meetings.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/2006/nov/04bypoll.htm (697 words)

	Uma Bharati giving BJP headaches in Bhagalpur - Printer Friendly Page - Politics - Telugu Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A strong rumour doing the rounds in Bhagalpur for the last two weeks is that Joshi has the backing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad against the BJP candidate.
		Joshi, an independent legislator from Dehri On Sone assembly seat, is a known Muslim basher and torchbearer of the Hindutva cause.
		The number of Muslim voters in Bhagalpur is 350,000 and the Yadavs number less than 200,000.
	www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/print.php?storyid=20310 (485 words)

	NDA retains Bhagalpur and Nalanda seats (LEAD)
		Former central minister and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Syed Shahnawaz Hussain won the Bhagalpur election by a margin of nearly 50,000 votes.
		The by-polls in Nalanda and Bhagalpur were held following the resignation of Nitish Kumar and Sushil Kumar Modi on becoming chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively.
		For the Congress, the outcome was a big embarrassment because state Congress chief Sadanand Singh belongs to Bhagalpur and was keen to contest the by-election, but was denied the ticket.
	www.dailyindia.com /show/79956.php/NDA_retains_Bhagalpur_and_Nalanda_seats_(LEAD) (238 words)

	Six convicted in Bhagalpur riots case
		Six persons were sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday in a Bhagalpur riots case, in which 11 people, including seven women, were killed in 1989.
		Eleven persons were killed in Tamoni village under the Kjerli police station in Nathnagar block in Bhagalpur district in Bihar in 1989.
		The village was witness to one of the most gruesome incidents in the month-long dance of death in Bhagalpur that year that left over 1,200 dead and twice as many injured.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/may/07riot.htm (255 words)

	BHAGALPUR - Online Information article about BHAGALPUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		lie the lowlands of Bhagalpur, fertile, well planted, well watered, and highly cultivated.
		The Ganges runs a course of 6o m, through Bhagalpur, is navigable all the See also:
		Bhagalpur passed to the East India See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BER_BLA/BHAGALPUR.html (1039 words)

	Bhagalpur LS election exposes Laloo's hypocrisy
		Exposing the disunity in the UPA ranks in Bihar and brightening the chances of the NDA candidates, the Rashtriya Janata Dal on Sunday sprang a surprise by fielding Shakuni Chaudhuri in the by-poll for Bhagalpur Lok Sabha seat.
		The Bhagalpur Parliamentary seat was vacated after BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi resigned from the seat and became the Deputy Chief Minister of the NDA Government in the State.
		Ashok Mahto, notorious local criminal, who was recently arrested and paraded with a garland of shoes around his neck has also filed his papers as an Independent candidate for the Nalanda seat.
	www.bihareebabu.com /061016_bhagalpur.htm (488 words)

	Mob pushes police inspector to death in Bhagalpur-Patna-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		PIRPAINTY (BHAGALPUR): In a gruesome incident here, nearly 16-km from the district headquarters Bhagalpur, a sub-inspector, Hare Ram Dubey, was pushed to death by an irate mob on Tuesday morning.
		TNN adds from Patna: According to police headquarters sources, the incident was triggered of when one Tuntun Sharma made an attempt to molest one Poonam Devi, wife of Raju Mahaldar, on Monday morning.
		Bhagalpur district has a volatile record, with violence erupting at the slightest provocation.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24608329 (453 words)

	AERC - Agro-Economic Research Centre for Bihar and Jharkhand...
		The study is to be undertaken by AERC Vishwa-Bharati for West Bengal, AERC Waltair for Andhra Pradesh, AERC Vallabh Vidya Nagar for Rajasthan and AERC Bhagalpur for Bihar and Jharkhand.
		ERC Bhagalpur has been assigned the task of formulating the State Agricultural Policy Document having implications of WTO for Bihar and Jharkhand States.
		On 22nd July, 2002, a workshop was held at ANAND in the Campus of Sardar Patel University under the Chairmanship of Dr. Katar Singh, Director IRMA, in which the representatives of all AER Centers participated.
	www.aercbhagalpur.org /news.asp (887 words)

	TNB College - A premier Institution of Bhagalpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rated as the finest as well as the oldest institution of Bhagalpur, TNB college is situated only two kms west from the railway station.
		Its sprawling campus is spread in 150 acres of land.
		Moreover, under the newly introduced system, the college had to part with the amount excess of its requirement which went to Bhagalpur university (now named as Tilkamanjhi Bhagalpur university), founded in 1960 on the campus of TNB college itself.
	www.bhagalpuronline.com /education/tnb.html (278 words)

	Fresh probe ordered into Bhagalpur riots : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a politically significant move, the NDA government in Bihar on Friday announced institution of a judicial probe into the 1989 Bhagalpur riot cases to bring to justice those accused who managed to escape conviction, punish errant officials and suggest a rehabilitation package for the victims.
		A special meeting of the Nitish Kumar Cabinet, chaired by the Chief Minister, decided to get 27 cases of the communal riots re-investigated to bring the guilty to justice and punish the officials responsible for their acquittal despite existence of "solid" evidences against them.
		Referring to the terms of reference of the commission, the Chief Minister said that the commission would probe afresh all the cases of the Bhagalpur riots and examine the manner in which the prosecution and investigation agencies carried out their duties resulting in closure of the cases against the accused.
	hindustantimes.com /news/181_1634555,000900030002.htm (243 words)

	Bhagalpur, Bihar State, Pictures
		Bhagalpur, city in northeastern India, in Bihar State, on the Ganges River.
		Bhagalpur is an important railway and commercial center for the surrounding area, a fertile region that produces grain, especially rice; oilseeds; jute; and sugarcane.
		The chief industry in the city is the manufacture of coarse-silk goods.
	www.greatestcities.com /Asia/India/Bihar_State/Bhagalpur_city.html (97 words)

	Ghost of 1989 communal riot haunts Bhagalpur byepoll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The ghost of communal carnage of 1989, which claimed over 1000 lives, returned to haunt this Lok Sabha constituency before the November 6 bypoll in which BJP's Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, the lone Muslim face in the erstwhile NDA government, is locked in a keen tussle with RJD and CPI-M to revive his political fortunes.
		The battle for Bhagalpur has once again exposed the fragile unity among the UPA partners and their Left allies.
		Angry over Laloo fielding his candidate, LJP, state Congress and CPI have come out openly against the RJD candidate and in support of CPI-M's Subodh Roy who had finished second in the last parliamentary polls behind Sushil Kumar Modi whose resignation on becoming Deputy Chief Minister has necessitated the bypoll.
	www.bihareebabu.com /061106_bhagalpur.htm (193 words)

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