Bihar Person in News

Pawan Bandhari

• ✓46th Chief Justice of Patna High Court (21 July 2025)

Vipul Manubhai Pancholi

• ✓45th Chief Justice of Patna High Court (21 July 2025)
• ✓After Patna HC Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran was elevated as Supreme Court Judge.
• ✓President appoints after consulting CJI & Governor (Article 217)
• ✓Oath by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan

Sunil Singh (RJD MLC)– Expelled from Legislative Council on recommendation of Ethics Committee headed by Rambachan Rai.

e-Voting

• ✓Bibha Kumari– 1st Indian to vote through it.
• ✓Munna Kumar -1st Male e-Voter
• ✓Both from Pakdidayal, East Champaran
• ✓Bihar - First State (June 28, 2025)
• ✓Eligibility- 80+ age, Divyang, Pregnant, Incurable Disease, Bihari Migrants.

Amitava Kumar - Book ‘My Beloved Love’-Father Jadunath (from a small village in Bihar) & daughter’s Challenges of life in a rapidly changing India.

Anand Singh – Book ‘Nalanda : A glorious past’

Chandan Kumar – S.I. of Bihar Police scaled the highest peak of Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro(5895 Metre), Tanzania - 12 May 2025. (Trained at HMI Darjeeling)

Nitish Kumar

• ✓Longest serving CM breaking record of Sri Krishna Singh (Sri Krishna Singh - Longest Continuous Serving CM)
• ✓Maximum number of Oath (9 times)
• ✓ Shortest tenure as CM - Satish Prasad (4 days in 1968)

Aishwarya Rai – Misses Bihar 2025; Wife of BJP MLA Vishal Prashant (Tarari, Bhojpur)

Vinod Kumar Gunjiyal – Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar .

Professor Apsara Mishra – Head of Reconstituted Bihar State Woman Commission . (Bihar State Women Commission Act 1999 amended in 2024).

Ashok Badal (JDU, Supaul) – Bihar Child Labour Commission.

Rahul Shrivastava - Coach (Indian team) for 11th Mount Everest International Karate Championship, Kathmandu (May 2025). 3 Medals won

• ✓Ankit Sinha- Silver
• ✓Akash Raja- Bronze
• ✓Nitin Kumar- Bronze

Ravi Prakash (Journalist)– Patient Advocate Educational Award at World Lung Cancer Conference in San Diego, America.

Dipankar Guarav – Atal Shikshak Samman.

Dr. Anil Singh Yadav – Recognized among Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University of America.

Rajesh Sharma (Samastipur)– Medallions of excellence World Skills Competition Held At Lyon, France .

Hemant Kumar – Honoured with In-house Lawyer of the Year 2024 & Asia’s Top 15 General Counsels 2024

Brajesh Mehrotra & Prakash Kumar - State Information Commissioner.

Vinay Kumar – DGP

Amrit Lal Meena – Chief Secretary (Pratyaya Amrit from September 1, 2025)

Pintu Prasad (Buxar) – National Handicrafts Award 2023 for terracotta art.

Sadhna Kumari – Participated in Slush 2024 in Finland, startup festival. (Robotics & AI)

Manoj Kumar Dubey (Bhojpur) – IRFC(Indian Railway Finance Corporation) CEO & Chairman

Shishir Sinha (Former BPSC Chairman)– 1st Vice Chancellor of Bihar Sports University.

Muhammad Hussain – PM National Child Award in Art & Culture category .

Bindeshwar Pathak – Padma Vibhushan 2024 (Social sector)

• ✓Pour-flush toilet replacing dry latrines
• ✓Founder of Sulabh International

Chandeshawar Prasad Thakur – Padma Bhusan 2024 (Medicine)

Shanti Devi Paswan & Shivan Paswan – Padma shri 2024 for special contribution to Madhubani / Mithila painting.

Aastha Singh - Gram Shree kisan Pvt. Ltd. Startup, awarded Best Women-led startup .

Ashok Kumar Vishwas- Tikuli Painting, Padam Shri.

Sachin Chaturvedi – Nalanda International University Vice–Chancellor .

Shrada Sinha – Born 1November 1952 (Supaul)

• ✓Padma Shri (1991);Sangeet Natak Academy Award (2000); Padma Bhushan (2018)
• ✓Called Begum Akhatar of Mithila
• ✓ Bihar Kokila
• ✓ Died on - 05 November 2024

Head of Various Commissions

• ✓Lalan Kumar – Fisherman's Commission
• ✓Manoj Kumar – Mahadalit Commission
• ✓Dhananjay Kumar (AKA Mrinal Paswan) – Scheduled Caste Commission. (Devendra Kumar as Vice-Chair)
• ✓Shailendra Kumar – Scheduled Tribes Commission
• ✓Ghulam Rasool Baliyawi– Bihar Minority Commission
• ✓Mahachandra Prasad Singh (BJP) – Upper Caste Commission Chair (Rajiv Ranjan of JDU as Vice-Chair)
• ✓Navin Arya – Extremely Backward Class Commission
• ✓Prahlad Sarkar – Bihar Food Commission
• ✓Salim Paravej – Bihar Madarsa Board

Anil Kumar Bhagat - “All India Acharya Ramachandra Shukla Criticism Award” = for “ Journalism : Creative writing & creation process”

Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Award - Kumar Uday Singh (Folk Dance) .

Sahitya Academy Award for Maithili language to MAHENDRA MALANGIYA (Madhubani) (Book – Prabandha Sangraha)

Pankaj Tripathi – Brand ambassador of Arunachal Rang Mahotsav 2024 + Hyundai India

Health minister – (Mangal Pandey) wrote the book “Arogya Path Par Bihar ….” released by erstwhile Governor R.V. Arlekar .

Padma Shri 2025

• ✓Nirmala Devi – Global Ambassador of Sujani Embroidery (2006- GI Tag) – from Muzaffarpur - folk textile art.
• ✓Bhim Singh Bhavesh (Bhojpur) – Upliftment of Mushar community through his foundation “Nayee Asha”; Wrote “Name plate” and “From Kolkata to Kolkata”
• ✓Hemant Kumar – Medicine (Kidney disease)
• ✓Vijay Nityanand Surishwar ji Maharaj – Spiritual Education
• ✓Acharya Kishor Kunal – Civil Services - Ex-IPS & Chairman of Mahavir Mandir Trust

Padma Bhushan 2025– Shushil Kumar Modi (public Affairs) ; Posthumous

• ✓ 13 May (Death anniversary) to be a State festival.

Padma Vibhushan 2025 – Sharda Sinha; Art; Posthumous

Panini – Silver medal at 17th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics at Brazil (Daksh Tayaliya of Bengaluru won Gold)

Justice Vinod Kumar Sinha – Chairperson of Bihar State Law Commission

Godavari Dutta (Passed away in Madhubani, August 2024) – Mithila painting; Padma Shri (2019); Shilp Guru Award (2006)

Karpoori Thakur (Jan Nayak)–

• ✓President declared Bharat Ratna for him on 23 January 2024.
• ✓Birth 24 January 1924 in Pitaunjhiya Village (now renamed as Karpuri Gram).
• ✓101st Birth anniversary in 2025.
• ✓2 times CM (1970–71 & 1977–79).
• ✓Total prohibition of alcohol
• ✓Extended reservation to OBC for the first time in India- EBC & BC classification (Mungeri Lal Commission Report 1977 & implemented in 1978)
• ✓PM Modi called “Beacon of social justice”

Dr. Rajyvardhan Azad (MLC) ICO Golden Apple Award 2025 (By Jagdeep Dhankar at Delhi)

Gaurav Sikka – Chairman, International Young & Early Career Geographer Commission; 1st Indian to achieve this.

Ajay Kumar Singh – VC of Patna University

Awadhesh Narayan Singh (BJP)– New chairman of Bihar Legislative Council.

Kanhaiya Srivastava - Administrator of BISCOMAUN(Bihar State Cooperative Marketing Union Ltd)

Anand Kumar (Super 30) –Ambassador of Korean Tourism for 2024

Dr. Rana Sanjay Pratap Singh - Global Bihar Excellence Iconic Doctor Award 2024 (Physician Category)

Piyush Ranjan – Doctorate Degree by Washington Digital University (For social work)

Neha Jha Mani – Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar for Maithili language 2025 .

• ✓For Maithili poem “Banaras Aa Hum” (on migrants, women consciousness)

Munni Kamat – Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2025 for Maithili language .

• ✓For short stories “Chukka”.

Anjani Kumar Singh – Museum Influencer Award .

Radha Kumari (Danapur)– Bihar’s First Specially-abled (Polio) Food delivery girl (Zomato)

• ✓Represented Bihar in National Para-Badminton Tournament 2024 in Jamshedpur.

Damini Mishra– 1st Rank in Hindustani Classical Vocal Classical Music at All India Competition Organized by Telangana Sangeet Natak Academy, Hyderabad.

Sharad Vivek Sagar (Social Entrepreneur) –

• ✓Born in Ziradei, Siwan
• ✓ Life journey included in the syllabus of Harvard University (Course A608- Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Learning)
• ✓One of 12 world leaders.