On 31 March, the day of a Hindu religious festival and during Ramadan, an extremist mob set a Muslim school, the Azizia Madrasa, and its library ablaze in the city of Bihar Sharif in eastern India.

Students of Bihar who are graduate, undergraduate, researcher or pursuing M.Phil, will now have access to a fully-automated e-library with more than 1,000 books in the Bihar Museum’s study centre.

On most days, more than 200 students use the space, many of them preparing for competitive examinations.

A Bihar school is hoping that an aircraft-shaped library will develop the reading habit in children. Twitter handle of Bihar health secretary Sanjay Kumar and Facebook page of BJP lawmaker Rajesh ...

After facing flak from intellectual quarters over the plan to demolish some parts of the historic Khuda Baksh Oriental Library in Patna, the Nitish Kumar government has finally agreed to leave it ...

Patna: In a move to encourage reading and research, the Bihar Museum library has started a new membership plan, eliminating the need for daily entry tickets for its members. Readers can now access the ...

The street-front of the library is lined with shops. Police say some shopkeepers were trying to grab the land. Munger, Bihar: A historic Urdu library in Bihar's Munger District was ransacked last week ...

INTACH has appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to spare the demolition of the front portion of the 130-year-old Khuda Bakhsh Library, saying razing of any part of the celebrated institution ...

A library set up by an IPS officer in a remote village in Maoist-affected Rohtas district is helping local youth pursue their aspirations, writes Ramashankar BIHAR: It is like a dream come true for ...

Ash, soot-stained walls, burnt furniture and charred pages: that's all that remains of a 113-year-old madrassa library in India that once housed more than 4,500 books, including ancient manuscripts ...