Bhagalpur

[ buhg-uhl-poor ]

noun

1. a city in Bihar, NE India, on the Ganges River.

Bhagalpur

/ ˈbɑːɡəlˌpʊə /

noun

1. a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)

Example Sentences

The bridge was being built over the River Ganges in Bhagalpur district of India's eastern state of Bihar.

From Reuters

At the Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, an 800-bed hospital in the largely rural Bhagalpur district in Bihar, a senior doctor said the medicine department - the first point of contact for patients - for example, had only half the number of required doctors in the past five years.

From Reuters

Bhagalpur's JLNMCH, on the banks of the holy Ganga river, has not admitted a single COVID-19 patient in the past two months, a reflection of the low number of new cases in the Bihar where a huge majority of its people were estimated to have been naturally infected by July.

From Reuters

The Bhagalpur hospital now has 60 ICU beds, but during a recent visit by Reuters, multiple rooms were either locked or empty.

From Reuters

A pregnant woman was taking care of her husband who had breathing difficulties in a hospital in Bhagalpur in the eastern state of Bihar that is seeing a surge its health system could barely have handled at the best of times.

From Reuters