In the state of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India, it is called Chaulai and is a popular green leafy vegetable ( referred to in the class of vegetable preparations called saag ).

Bihar is a state in India.

* Bihar Sharif, headquarters of Nalanda district, Bihar, India

* Bihar River, a border river of Palamu district, Jharkhand, India

* Koch Bihar, a princely state in Northeast India

Forest near Rajgir, Bihar, India

Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India.

Modern day Afghanistan was conquered by the Maurya Empire, which was led by Chandragupta Maurya from Magadha ( modern day Bihar in India ).

For example, the Rashtriya Janata Dal ( translated as National People's Party ) has a vote bank among the Yadav and Muslim population of Bihar and the All India Trinamool Congress does not have any significant support outside West Bengal.

* 1981 – Bihar train disaster A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river.

Koshi River in the first category caused a major flood in August 2008 in Bihar state, India after breaking through a poorly-maintained embankment just inside Nepal.

As a result, a number of sugar factories were established in Bihar in eastern India.

* November 15 – A new Indian state called Jharkhand is formed, carving out the South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India.

* August 25 – The Shergotty meteorite Mars meteorite falls in Sherghati, Gaya, Bihar, India.

* June 6 – Bihar train disaster: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi in Bihar, India ; about 800 die.

* 500 BC — Foundation of first republic in Vaishali Bihar India.

* A center of Buddhist studies is established at Nalanda in Bihar on the plains of the Ganges River ( India ).

* 1, 918 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Begusarai, district in Bihar, India

During the latter part of this period, historical legends relate that the mighty king of Monyul invaded a southern region known as the Duars, subduing the regions of modern Assam, West Bengal, and Bihar in India.

As of 2008, many of the Kolkata rickshaw pullers originate from Bihar, considered to be one of the poorest states in India.

But in the 4th century BCE they gained strength and spread from Bihar to Orissa, then so South India and westwards to Gujarat and the Punjab, where Jain communities became firmly established, particularly among the mercantile classes.

Ānanda Mārga, organizationally known as Ānanda Mārga Pracaraka Samgha ( AMPS ), meaning the samgha ( organization ) for the propagation of the marga ( path ) of ananda ( bliss ), is a social and spiritual movement founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar ( 1921 – 1990 ), also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti.

* The Mauryan sculpture Didarganj Yakshi holding a Fly Whisk, from Patna, Bihar in India, is made ( approximate date ).

Varieties include ' Magadhi ' from Bihar, Gundi, Rasi & Bada varieties from Hinjilicut, Orissa which is more popular in Benaras, Mirzapur, Tunda, Agra & southern districts of Orissa, in India, and ' Venmony Vettila ' from Kerala.

However, the term Hindi is also used for most of the central Indic dialects from Bihar to Rajasthan, and more widely some of the Eastern and Northern dialects too.

However, in the context of Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orrissa, Tripura and Assam, the Eastern and North-Eastern region of the Indian geo-politics, kirtana is something more than that -- something excess ( rather than that of residue of some Hindusthani marga-songs ) with rich variations of innovative raginis and talas and it has different sub-types.

Apart from these, more recently as a part of greater Northeast India, state of Sikkim and parts of North Bengal ( districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Koch Bihar ) can also be collectively referred as Northeast India.

In 2006, MHRD issued NIT status to three more colleges, located at Patna ( Bihar Engineering College-a 110 year old college ), Raipur ( Government Engineering College ), and Agartala ( Tripura Engineering College ).

In April 1986 more than one dozen Scheduled Caste labourers were killed by police in Arwal, Jehanabad District in Bihar.

" At the village level, some commentators have observed that Western Uttar Pradesh resembles Haryana and Rajasthan more than it does Eastern Uttar Pradesh, and the eastern region resembles Bihar more than it does Western Uttar Pradesh.

* June 6-In the Bihar train disaster, a passenger train carrying 800 or more passengers between Mansi and Saharsa, India derailed and plunged into the Bagmati river while it was crossing a bridge, estimates of the death toll range from 500 to 800.

He however saw the Master only a few more times in his life as he was compelled to live at Bankipore in Bihar.

By 1990 however, AJSU had taken a more pragmatic line and had candidates for the Bihar state assembly election on the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha symbol.

He is former Union Home Minister under Rajiv Gandhi's Government & more recently governor of Bihar state, India.

Was camping in the interiors of rural Bihar for more than two months to provide relief and comfort to people.

" According to William Pinch, " Risley's hierarchy ( for United Provinces ) was far more elaborate than that for Bihar, suggesting that contending claims of social respectability may have been more deeply entrenched in the western half of the Gangetic Plain.

In the Bihar train disaster on June 6, 1981, a passenger train carrying 800 or more passengers between Mansi and Saharsa, India derailed and plunged into the river Bagmati while it was crossing a bridge.

In February 2008 Raj Thackeray led a violent movement in what was labelled an andolan ( uprising / protest ) against the supposed dominance of migrants from the North Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in Maharashtra and more so in its commercial capital of Mumbai.

Between 1999 and 2008, the annualized growth rates for Gujarat ( 8. 8 %), Haryana ( 8. 7 %), or Delhi ( 7. 4 %) were much higher than for Bihar ( 5. 1 %), Uttar Pradesh ( 4. 4 %), or Madhya Pradesh ( 3. 5 %).

Poverty rates in rural Orissa ( 43 %) and rural Bihar ( 41 %) are higher than in the world's poorest countries such as Malawi.

More than 1, 700 people died, much higher than the previous rail disaster with most fatalities, the Bihar train disaster in India in 1981.

The Indian Academy of Pediatrics was established in 1962, in Patna, Bihar, with less than 100 pediatricians as its members.

The Kosi ( Kausiki ), which flows through the northeastern Bihar and joins the Ganges at a point much higher up than Rajmahal, originally ran eastward and fell into the Brahmaputra.

A cellular zone ( or telecom circle ) is normally the entire state, with a few exceptions like Mumbai, Chennai & Kolkata ( which are different zones than their respective states ), Goa ( which is a part of the Maharashtra zone ), Chhattisgarh ( which is part of Madhya Pradesh ), Jharkhand ( which is a part of the Bihar zone ) or Uttar Pradesh ( divided into multiple zones ).

Today Bihar produces less than 2 % of the sugar of India.