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Medininagar:  RJD chief Lalu Prasad had a narrow escape on Tuesday morning as a fire that broke out in a room of the circuit house in Jharkhand’s Palamu district where he was staying could be doused in time, officials said. Prasad, 73, was having breakfast in his room around 8 am when the wall-mounted fan […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday was conducting raids at 16 different locations in Bihar and Delhi linked to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and his daughter, Misa Bharti, in connection with a land for job scam. The scam involved taking land from unemployed youths on the pretext of providing […]

Ranchi: A special CBI court on Tuesday convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the Rs 139.5 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on February 18, a CBI counsel said. The court had on January 29 completed hearing arguments in case and […]

A blood donation camp was organised in the RJD office on the occasion, while party workers held food programmes for the poor and the deprived.

The court directed him neither to leave the country without permission nor change his address and mobile number during the bail period.

The case pertains to fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury, when Prasad was the chief minister of undivided Bihar.

During campaigning in the run-up to the Assembly polls in October-November, Nitish had taken a dig at his friend turned bete noire Lalu Prasad.

In all likelihood, it is the post-poll manoeuvring that will decide who will get to rule Bihar