What Bihar does

Bihar.com is a privately operated, web-based information and news portal focused on the Indian state of Bihar. Established around 2014 under the doing-business-as name "Bihar News Information Portal," the site aggregates state-level content including news (Bihar, national, global, business, Bollywood), district profiles, tourism guides for sites such as Bodh Gaya, Nalanda, Rajgir, and Vaishali, educational institution listings covering universities such as Patna University, Magadh University, BRA Bihar University, Nalanda Open University, and Lalit Narayan Mithila University, and cultural, festival, and religion content. It provides step-by-step "How Do I Know?" guides for applying to government services (Aadhaar, passport, driving license, ration card, birth certificate, welfare schemes) and publishes extensive contact directories for the Bihar state government, including the Chief Minister's office, cabinet ministers, police hierarchy, emergency services, hospitals, and higher education administrators.

The underlying platform is a standard ASP.NET web portal with self-serve content pages, supplemented by social media profiles on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter (@biharworld). There is no disclosed mobile application, no API surface, no SDK, and no integrations documented. The business model is free-to-user content distribution; the only commercial surface visible is a generic "Advertise" page, indicating a likely display-ad-supported revenue model, though no pricing, rate cards, or revenue figures are disclosed. Ownership is opaque — no parent company, investors, or public listing is identified, and the copyright is held by "bihar.com" with a 2014 reservation of rights.

The portal serves three primary audience segments: Bihar citizens and residents seeking government services and information, domestic and international tourists planning visits to historical and Buddhist sites, and the Bihar diaspora living abroad. Distribution is exclusively through the web portal accessible globally, with no registration requirement for content access. The firmographics data indicates non-profit status with 418 employees and a 1912 founding year, but these figures appear inconsistent with Bihar.com's documented 2014 establishment and small-portal footprint, and likely reflect conflation with Bihar state government institutional data.

Name

Bihar

Legal name

Bihar.com

Website

https://bihar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Bihar.com is a free web portal providing news, government service guidance, tourism, education, and contact directories for India's Bihar state, serving citizens, tourists, and the global Bihari diaspora.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regional Government Information Portal

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

akta.pro primary industry

General Web Portals & Start Pages (BPAMAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

News & Content Aggregation Portals (BPAMAAAI)

Keywords

• Regional information portal
• Government service directory
• State news portal
• Tourism information site
• Education directory

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Bihar.com is a free web-based Bihar state information portal that aggregates state news, district directories, university and college listings, tourism guides, government department contacts, and procedural guides for obtaining essential documents (Aadhaar, passport, ration card, driving license, birth certificate). The portal also lists emergency contact numbers for police, hospitals, ambulance, fire, railways, and postal services, and serves citizens, tourists, and the Bihar diaspora.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bihar News Information Portal A free, registration-free web portal (bihar.com) that aggregates Bihar state news, district information, government service procedures (Aadhaar, passport, ration card, driving license, birth certificate), tourism guides, university and college listings, government contact directories, and emergency contact numbers for police, hospitals, ambulance, fire, railway, and postal services, targeted at citizens, tourists, and the Bihar diaspora.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• India.gov.in: National Government of India citizen-services portal aggregating central government services, forms, and contacts. Comparable as a broader incumbent in the government-information portal space in which Bihar.com operates.
• NDTV: India's largest digital news platform aggregating national, regional, and state-level news including Bihar coverage. Comparable in the news-aggregation portal dimension of Bihar.com's product, though operating at vastly greater scale.
• Incredible India: Government of India's national tourism portal covering destinations, heritage, and pilgrimage sites across India. Operates at the national level in the same tourism-information vertical that Bihar.com addresses at the state level.
• India.com: Large Indian general-interest web portal aggregating news, lifestyle, and regional content including Bihar-relevant coverage. Comparable as a broad web portal/start-page play even though it is much larger and pan-India in scope.
• Hindustan Times: Major Indian English news outlet with dedicated Bihar state coverage and regional edition. Adjacent to Bihar.com as a news and information source targeting the same state audience, though as a publisher rather than a directory/portal.

Direct peers

• Sulekha: Indian local services and classifieds portal aggregating community information, businesses, and services by city. Comparable as an information-aggregation and citizen-resource platform operating at a regional level.
• IndiaMART: India's largest B2B and local-business directory aggregating supplier and service-provider information. Comparable in the directory aggregation model even though its B2B focus differs from Bihar.com's public-service angle.
• Bihar Online (biharonline.gov.in): Official Government of Bihar e-governance portal providing departments, services, forms, and welfare schemes. The closest functional competitor to Bihar.com for centralized citizen-services information, and is referenced on the portal itself.
• JustDial: India's leading local search and directory platform covering businesses, services, and government contacts across cities and states. Directly comparable to Bihar.com's directory-style approach to public-service and contact discovery.
• Discover Bihar (Dept. of Tourism): Official Bihar tourism portal promoting destinations including Bodh Gaya, Nalanda, Rajgir, and Vaishali. Directly competes with Bihar.com's tourism content for the same pilgrim-and-heritage traveler audience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/biharworld
• Facebookfacebook.com/bihar
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/diginishsystem

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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