March 18

• Head of Imrat Shariah and general secretary of AIMPB Maulana Syed Nizamuddin has opposed quota for Muslim women. “Their place is home not political fields,” he said.
• The Bihar cabinet extended the date for claiming tax benefits for setting up multiplexes in the state.
• DANAPUR — Hundreds of people took to the streets and disrupted traffic to protest the killing of a businessman Randhir Jaiswal by alleged extortionists. Jaiswal was shot dead Wednesday night at Bibiganj.
• JAMUI — 12 people were injured in a blast in a mini bus near Lakhsmipur. Naxal hand suspected.
• Doctors with MBBS degrees from medical colleges outside Bihar would be allowed to sit in competitive examinations for admission to PG course here, health minister NK Yadav said.
• Muzaffarpur DPRO Nagendra Prasad Gupta has written to PRD secretary Rajesh Bhushan, seeking immediate transfer as he feels threat to his life following alleged torture and misbehaviour by DM Anand Kishore.
• University registrars who have the requisite qualification will be given revised pay scale of Rs 16,400-450-20, 900-500-22,400 as per UGC norms, a state government release said.
• Rs 70 crore Sultanjganj-Deoghar Kanwaria Path almost complete. Will be opened in August, RCD minister Prem Kumar said.
• RJD will use Liberhan Commission report to woo Muslims in Assembly polls, Shakeel Ahmad Khan said.
• PATLIPUTRA — CIMAGE and Catalyst Media College will organize an editors’ meet on March 20. Prominent columnist Kuldeep Nayar is the chief guest.

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