The Bihar government will directly pay creators for videos about its programs based on view count.
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The Bihar government will directly pay creators for videos about its programs based on view count.
Under newly amended rules, the Bihar government will pay social media creators for content about its schemes. Cabinet Secretary Mohd Sohail announced a rate of ₹10,000 for every 100,000 views on platforms like YouTube.
The payment kicks in after a video has been displayed for 30 days. There is a cap: no single video can earn more than ₹1 lakh through the program.
The Bihar cabinet approved other significant expenditures. It allocated nearly ₹64 crore for a program to improve animal breeds and boost milk production.
A major infrastructure project was also greenlit: a new 336-kilometer, six-lane expressway connecting Buxar and Bhagalpur. Officials have yet to determine the final cost, as it will be built using a public-private partnership model.
The cabinet approved funding for restoring sections of the Kosi Canal system to aid irrigation. It also cleared the formal closure of the Bihar Panchayati Raj Finance Corporation, a dormant entity with no remaining employees or debts.
Other decisions included a full stamp duty exemption for land acquired for a solar power project and standardizing the names of several regional employment offices as 'District Employment Exchanges'.
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The core takeaway is that this pay-for-views policy is likely to launch and function at a modest level, with lukewarm success being the most probable outcome over the next two years. The greater systemic risk lies not in failure, but in the incentive structure producing unintended and damaging effects on the content it funds.
Observers should watch for specific triggers that will lock in the trajectory: the release of the detailed program notification, the first publicized payouts to creators, and any early signs of creators exploiting the system for profit. The narrative will resolve into one of these three clear, observable states within the forecast horizon.
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India ended a 44-year wait for the Asian Games women's hockey gold and qualified for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The Karnataka HC set aside a 2022 order granting five acres to ex-serviceman Vemanna G, citing amended rules that provide a residential site instead.
The two laws require marriage registration, prohibit polygamy and bigamy, and provide equal property rights to sons and daughters, among other provisions.
President Murmu has assented to Gujarat’s UCC Bill, making it the second state after Uttarakhand to enact a comprehensive UCC.
The Archaeological Survey of India looks after Gandhi's birthplace, while the state government maintains the Kirti Mandir memorial through a committee.
Sharma said he has written to CJI Surya Kant seeking an opportunity to cross-examine Justice Sandeep Mehta over the allegations against him.
‘Operation Gangajal’ focuses on officials facing corruption charges, disciplinary action and allegations of serious misconduct.
he Gujarat government on Thursday compulsorily retired two Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, K Rajesh and Gaurav Dahiya, as part of “Operation Gangajal”
SC sought affidavit from UP government on action taken against driver, owner of sleeper bus whose fire in Greater Noida killed nine passengers last month
On Thursday, barricades were put in place across Lutyens’ Delhi to block routes leading to Jantar Mantar.
The two DSP-rank officers associated with the Maoist cash recovery operations were transferred from Kanker in mid-June and subsequently posted in other districts
Three people were arrested and around 683 kg of banned firecrackers worth ₹35 lakh was seized from Delhi’s Budh Vihar area on Thursday, police said.
The Telangana police on Tuesday detained two more people in connection with the theft of arms and ammunition from the armoury of the Indian Army’s Madras Regiment in Secunderabad on August 31, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday
The Karnataka government is expected to place its plan to split the Bengaluru City Police Commissionerate into five units before the Cabinet on Thursday, with approval potentially clearing the way for a reorganisation that would create 6,633 new police posts at a projected cost of ₹764
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the party’s state in-charges and co-in-charges in New Delhi to draw up plans for the upcoming assembly elections in five states next year and oversee other organisational issues, people familiar with the matter said
New Delhi: A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) will resume discussions on the controversial Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhisthan (VBSA) Bill, 2025, after a gap of more than a month, with the panel set to hear views of experts from Himachal Pradesh on September 11
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership is keen to reset the political narrative to keep the spotlight on issues such as the government’s “development model” and “accomplishments in the economic and other sectors” to avert being caught in a bind between pro-reservation and anti-reservation groups
While spitting on the road will attract a penalty of ₹100, urinating and dumping of waste and plastic will carry a fine of ₹200
Gupta said the government has targetted installing rooftop solar systems in 230,000 households across Delhi by March 2027
The SC bench took note that the controversial chapter has been replaced based on the revisions suggested by an expert panel constituted by the Centre.
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The appeal, made on Tuesday in a video message from Bishkek, comes even as India has posted a stronger-than-expected 7.8% economic growth this quarter.
Nisarga Adhikary has demonstrated another potential security lapse by sending an email from an official gov.in account to Cert-In and other govt recipients
The value of transactions was ₹29.82 lakh crore in August, up from ₹24.85 lakh crore in the same month a year ago, registering 20% annual growth
The gross GST collection in August 2026 was ₹1,99,853 crore as against ₹1,74,116 crore in August 2025.
Major Rishabh Singh Sambyal was selected as an ADC to President Murmu in March 2023.
Bihar CM says his State has been allocated 5.75 million-acre feet of the river water, and Jharkhand 2 MAF. The two States had a dispute over sharing 7.75 MAF of water allocated for the then undivided Bihar under a 1973 agreement
The agreement settles the division of the erstwhile undivided Bihar’s allocation under the 1973 Bansagar Agreement.
This exemplifies a broader pattern: an Indian Judiciary that proactively responds to emerging fraudulent schemes, rather than waiting for Parliament to address them, says Chief Justice of India Surya Kant
Delhi notifies Fire Service Amendment Rules 2026, replacing inspections with auditor-signed fire safety checklists for building clearances.t
The capital also recorded its wettest first week of August in 15 years, receiving 127 mm of rainfall during the first seven days of the month.
The plea has also sought a direction that every fuel invoice should specifically and legibly state the percentage of ethanol in the petrol sold
Suvendu Adhikari visited Jadavpur for a public recital of national song Vande Mataram, which saw thousands of people joining the Chief Minister
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari vowed to stop Maoists, Palestine supporters from using Jadavpur University as ‘free ground’
The varsity will be developed with required infrastructure facilities, says Purandeswari
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari urged skilled and educated professionals from the State working elsewhere in India and abroad to return, assuring them of employment opportunities under the “double-engine government”
Reacting to Yogi Adityanath claiming that the Congress state president eats fish during Shravan, Ajay Rai challenged the Chief Minister to make a public, authentic picture or video of him eating fish
Uttarakhand unit chief of the BJP Mahendra Bhatt had said the venue had been ‘polluted’ by slogans that were not appropriate for a religious place, dismissing the Opposition’s criticism of the ritual
Kharge seeks a one-third reservation for women from 2029; urges PM to give time to parties and States to study proposals
At a place where there is a Ram temple, slogans were raised that should not have been raised, says Mahendra Bhatt
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the BJP wants to dodge accountability for its misdeeds
Keeping government posts vacant denies reserved category candidates opportunities; the sale of PSUs and increasing contractual employment further shrinks the availability of jobs covered by reservation, Congress leader says
According to Mysuru Hotel Owners’ Association, the steep rise is partly attributed to the increasing use of sugar for ethanol production
The party flags rising prices of food items, including sugar, onions, and milk; ‘Where are the jobs after graduation?’ Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge asks, pointing out that graduates account for 67% of unemployed Indians aged 20 to 29 years
Kurubur Shanthakumar attributes the rising price of sugar to the ‘substantial profits’ made by the sugar factories from ethanol production
Asks whether the diversion of sugarcane and grain for ethanol production under the E20 policy is contributing to rising sugar prices
‘Due to increasing cases of diabetic patients, people are not taking sweets. Everyone is suffering from diabetes. I don’t think the price rise of sugar will make much difference for people,’ says State Minister Shrawan Kumar
Speaking about the rise in sugar prices, Kumar told the media that people are suffering from diabetes and thus the cost increase will not make much difference.
Sugar prices have risen sharply in recent weeks, increasing from ₹48.18 per kg on July 20, 2026, to ₹55.70 per kg on August 20.
Domestic air passenger traffic fell 4.8% to 12 million in July, even as passenger numbers for January-July remained marginally higher than last year
The Centre has allowed 1 million tonnes of raw sugar to be imported duty-free until October 31 as domestic prices climb ahead of the festive season
AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal said that the country used to export sugar, but now it is planning to import it
To control prices, the government imposed a stockholding limit on bulk consumers using more than 10 tonnes of sugar a month
This will be applicable after a replacement video completes 30 days of display, with the maximum amount payable for a single video capped at ₹1 lakh.
Notices will be served to 23.45 lakh people who could not find their own or their parents’ details in the 2002 electoral roll
Agriculture Minister T. Siddique will inaugurate the distribution of the assistance at the Chandragiri auditorium in Kalpetta at 10 a.m. on Friday.
Tejashwi Yadav said Bihar's law and order had "completely collapsed", while accusing the government of failing to control "rising police brutality"
The animals were seized from a farmhouse belonging to S.K. Keshavanathan, the owner of the Lar gibbons shown in a recent video involving actor Vikram
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