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Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi, stated, "Lalu Ji had been the chief minister of Bihar for a long time. He even got LK Advani arrested. These things don't match with his stature." After former Bihar minister Tej Pratap Yadav alleged that his father and RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav is being held hostage […]
On July 22, Bihar midday meal director Satish Chandra Jha had issued an order asking each district programme officer to have empty gunny bags sold at a rate of Rs 10 per piece, and to deposit the amount with the government. Given the responsibility of selling empty gunny bags after their use in the midday […]
The Centre’s recent statement in the Parliament that a caste-based census would include only the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes has triggered a fresh demand for inclusion of the OBCs Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has agreed, in principle, to take up the issue of a caste-based census with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of […]
Huma Qureshi makes this predictable yet engaging political drama binge-watch worthy, notes Namrata Thakker. Set in Bihar, Maharani — created by Jolly LLB director Subhash Kapoor and directed by Karan Sharma — isn’t entirely fictional and is loosely based on real political events. The show revolves around Rani Bharti (Huma Qureshi) who becomes Bihar’s chief […]
The Indian Express on Tuesday had first reported that RLSP and JD(U) were planning a merger, and Kushwaha was likely to get a key position in the party organisation. Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) president Upendra Kushwaha on Wednesday hinted at his party’s merger with JD(U). He said the party had called a meeting of […]
21-year-old Shivam Kumar, who recently cleared the recruitment examination for General Duty (GD) service in the Indian Army, was allegedly kidnapped on gunpoint in Lakhisarai district of Bihar and forced to marry a girl at a nearby village on Thursday morning. Shivam Kumar’s father Manoj Kumar alleged that his son was abducted at gunpoint by […]
Candidates for the upcoming panchayat polls are likely to get the facility of filing their nomination papers online, apart from the conventional method, as part of the State Election Commission’s (SEC’s) efforts to introduce digital processes in the conduct of these elections. People familiar with the developments said the state poll panel had been holding […]
After former chief minister and president of the Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (HAM-S) Jitan Ram Manjhi’s appeal, the Congress party too asked Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to intervene and end the junior doctors’ strike that entered its seventh day on Tuesday. The health services in all the nine medical colleges and hospitals across the state […]
A 28-year-old woman’s in-laws allegedly killed her by setting her on fire in Bihar’s Vaishali district late on Monday night, a police officer said. Anil Kumar, the officer, said the woman’s in-laws are absconding and raids were on to arrest them. He added the woman was killed after her family was unable to meet the […]
Bihar Cabinet has approved a proposal for creation of 103 new nagar panchayats and eight new nagar parishads, upgradation of 32 nagar panchayats to nagar parishads and five nagar parishads to municipal corporations. The State Cabinet has also approved a proposal for the expansion of 12 Nagar Nikay. Earlier, the Bihar Cabinet had approved a […]