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Patna: Bihar minister Kartik Kumar, who is an accused in a 2014 kidnapping case, resigned on Wednesday night amid protests by the opposition, officials said. Kartik Kumar, an RJD MLC, became the state’s law minister in the new Nitish Kumar government. He resigned hours after being moved to the lesser significant Sugarcane Department. The resignation […]
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Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has kept the crucial Home Department portfolio with himself and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has taken charge of the Health Department’s portfolio in the first Cabinet expansion of the newly formed Mahagathbandhan government in Bihar. JD(U) leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary got the Finance Department and RJD leader Tej Pratap […]
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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced 20 lakh jobs to the youths of the state during his Independence Day speech here on Monday. After hoisting the national flag at the historic Gandhi Maidan here, Kumar addressed the gathering and said that he was ‘wishing not only to give 10 lakh jobs but he wants […]
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New Delhi: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who reached the national capital on Thursday late evening, will meet Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi today, a move which comes days ahead of the floor test in the Bihar Assembly on August 24. Tejashwi arrived in Delhi for the celebration of Raksha Bandhan. He will also […]
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Patna: Amid strong hints that the government may change in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had a telephonic conversation with Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi. Though the full details of the phone call, which happened on Sunday night, are not officially known, sources said that the two leaders discussed the formation of a new government […]
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Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has alleged that Riaz Akhtari — one of the accused in Kanhaiya Lal murder case — has links with BJP after his pictures with saffron party leaders appeared on social media. In two back to back tweets on Sunday night, Tejashwi said: “Some photographs appeared in public domain indicating that the […]
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Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav, RJD vice president Shivanand Tiwari and other leaders from Bihar condemned the barbaric broad daylight murder of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur and demanded stringent punishment for the culprits. Jitan Ram Manjhi, the former CM of Bihar said in a tweet: “The […]
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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said his government will undertake a “socio-economic survey of all castes and communities” in the state, following the Centre’s reluctance to conduct a caste census nationally. Talking to reporters here after chairing an all-party meeting, Kumar said the necessary cabinet clearance for the mammoth exercise will be […]
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Patna: The Iftar party, hosted by the RJD at the official residence of former Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Friday, attracted attention of every political party in the state. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accepting the invitation sent to him by Rabri Devi, and her sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav, walked from his 7 […]
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Patna: A burqa-clad girl in Bihar’s Begusarai district was stopped from making transactions in a nationalised bank, an official said. The girl recorded the incident and shared it on social media on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when the girl had gone to UCO bank of Mansoor Chowk branch in Begusarai to withdraw money. […]
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Hyderabad: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday called on Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Tejashwi Yadav, who is the son of former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, met KCR at the Pragati Bhavan, the official residence of the CM. The Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav […]
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New Delhi: Speculations are rife in the media and Congress circles about Kanhaiya Kumar, the former JNU Students Union president, joining the party. Sources close to the CPI leader, however, said ‘these are rumours which are being spread and there is no talk of his joining the Congress’. Sources in the Congress say that he […]
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The RJD chief is kept in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) of the hospital under the supervision of a team of doctors led by Dr Rakesh Yadav, professor of department of cardiology, the official added.
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Yadav said the Narendra Modi government has called an all-party meeting but has not invited the RJD despite it being the single largest party in Bihar.
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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.
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Yadav claimed the people's mandate was for a change but it was manipulated.
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Tejashwi Yadav, son of former Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi established himself this year as a seasoned politician
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As trends from all 243 seats became available, the NDA constituents were ahead in 125, with BJP candidates leading the table in 72 seats and the JD(U) in only 47.
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The Election Commission is making sure that the winds of potential change cause no disruption in the counting process.
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Most of the exit polls predicted RJD to again emerge as the single largest party in the 243-member assembly along with a clear dip in the seat tally of JD(U)
