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Varsity, college teachers to be feted from next yr: CM
Patna, Sep 06(TNN): Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced that from next year teachers from colleges and universities would also be felicitated along with teachers of primary and secondary schools for their exempalary performances. Addressing a function organised by Human Resources Department at S K Memorial Hall here, Nitish also announced to give Rs [...]
Bihar govt rejects RJD MP funds
Sep 06(The Asian Age): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has refused to accept money from the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Fund provided by political adversaries. Calling this a “regressive” step, MPs of the Opposition RJD claimed that Mr Kumar’s aim was to “monopolise” Bihar’s development. RJD MPs Jagdanand Singh from Buxar and Raghuvansh [...]
‘Abducted cops to be released in Jharkhand’
Ranchi, Sep 05(TNN): Maoists on Sunday said that the abducted policemen would be released somewhere in Jharkhand. They said that they were deliberately delaying their release to ensure that they reached their home safely. “We do not want the abducted cops to fall prey to police bullets. That would bring further ignominy to us,” said [...]
40 lakh illiterate women made literate in Bihar
Patna, Sep 05(PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said 40 lakh illiterate women were made literate under the ‘Mukhyamantri Akshar Anchal Yojana’ by two lakh teachers across the state. While addressing a government function here on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, Kumar said these two lakh teachers would be given Rs. 1000 and [...]
3 cops are alive: Naxals to Bihar govt
Patna, Sep 04: Day after Maoists killed one of the four Bihar policemen who were hostaged in Lakhisarai, 150 kilometres away from Patna since the encounter, naxals claimed that remaining three cops are safe in their hands. When Naxals left the body of Hawaldar Lukas Tete in the jungles of Lakhisari district, they left a [...]
Hostage crisis: Bihar CM calls emergency meeting
Patna, Sep 4(OneIndia NEWS): After the seven days that the four police officials were abducted by the Naxals in Bihar, Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar called for an emergency all party meeting on Saturday, Sep 4. Many people have raised questions that why the state governmnet had taken so much time to take a solution of [...]
Students campaign against cutting of trees in Patna zoo
Aug 28(IANS): Hundreds of students associated with Taru Mitra (Friends of Trees) in Bihar Saturday began a campaign against the government’s plan to cut nearly 4,000 trees in the Patna zoo for airport safety. Taru Mitra, a student movement to protect and promote a healthy environment on earth, has also planned a march Saturday to [...]
Non-gazetted employees” strike in Bihar enters 5th day
Patna, Aug 27 (PTI): The indefinite strike by around three lakh non-gazetted employees in Bihar entered the 5th day day today, paralysing the functioning of the offices across the state. “The strike continues to affect the functioning of the state government offices in Bihar for the fifth day,” Bihar State Non-Gazetted Employees Federation (BSNGEF-Gope Group) [...]
It’s people’s money, not of any govt’s: Nitish
Patna, Aug 26(TNN): The controversy with regard to the statement of Congress president Sonia Gandhi that it was with the central assistance that the state’s development had been triggered and spurred on took a sudden calming down with the new twist that CM Nitish Kumar gave to it on Thursday. “Paisa Dilli ka ho ya [...]
E-Shakti Smart card project launched in Patna district
Patna, Aug 26(TNN): On Thursday in the presence of chief minister Nitish Kumar, worker Shyam Narayan Chauhan from Patna district put his finger print on a handset which matched with the biometric mark stored in his E-Shakti Smart Card that he possessed and flaunted as his new pride. Since the card is linked with financial [...]
Nitish, Lalu, Paswan rakhis a hit in Bihar
Patna, Aug 23(IANS): They have a tough electoral contest ahead, but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his rivals Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan are also jostling for supremacy in Bihar’s rakhi markets. A day ahead of the festival, rakhis named after the three were doing brisk business Monday with reports that Nitish Kumar had [...]
Bihar polls: BJP internal survey sets off alarm bells
Aug 23 (The Financial Express): An internal survey conducted by the BJP to assess its prospects in poll-bound Bihar has set alarm bells ringing in the party. The survey has reportedly predicted that the BJP could fare poorly in the elections scheduled to be held in three months. Sources in the party said the survey [...]
MPs themselves speaking for rise in salary not correct: JD(U)
Aug 22(PTI): With RJD chief Lalu Prasad taking a lead in demanding increase in salaries of MPs, JD(U), his arch-rival in poll-bound Bihar, today said lawmakers themselves pushing for such a hike affects the “credibility” of Parliament. “MPs themselves speaking for rise in their salary is not correct. This affects the credibility of Parliament. Instead [...]
Bihar will make centre pay back dues, says Nitish
Aug 22 (IANS): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said the central government will have to repay Rs.1,000 crore that his government spent to repair and maintain national highways in the state. ‘I will see, the people of Bihar will see, how the centre does not pay back the money. We will not let them [...]
Shatrughan favours Modi, Varun campaigning in Bihar
Aug 21 (IANS): Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday urged his party’s central leadership to invite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and firebrand youth leader Varun Gandhi for campaigning in the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar. “I personally want Modi and Varun to come to Bihar for campaigning in the upcoming assembly polls. [...]
Nitish Kumar disapproves of MPs’ behaviour over salary hike
Aug 21 (PTI): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today described the behaviour of MPs in Parliament over the issue of increasing their salaries as “gaucherie”, saying this gives a wrong impression about those who are in politics. “Salary of MPs should be increased. Who says salary can not be increased? But see what is the [...]
Bahubalis: Bihar’s kingmakers?
Patna, Aug 21 (NDTV): Anand Mohan maybe a convicted criminal, serving a life term for the murder of an IAS officer in 1994, but in election season, he’s in big demand. The biggest surprise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar personally visiting Mohan’s village in Saharsa a few days ago, ostensibly for a marriage in the family. [...]
Employees to demonstrate at varsity HQs today
Patna, Aug 19(TNN): Even as the indefinite strike launched by over 33,000 non-teaching staff of universities and colleges in Bihar entered the 49th day on Wednesday without any rapprochement in sight, the striking staff have girded up their loins for holding massive demonstrations at all the university headquarters on Thursday to press their demands. The [...]
Nitish Kumar takes tonga ride in Rajgir
Rajgir, Aug 19 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday went by a tonga (horse-drawn carriage) to reach the venue of JD(U) workers’ camp for drawing up electoral strategy that concluded in Bihar. A tastefully-decorated tonga was called at the Circuit House here this morning for Kumar, who spent overnight after participating in the [...]
Bihar’s Gear Shift
Aug 18 (TOI):The countdown to the Bihar assembly polls has begun with Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Ramvilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) announcing a seat-sharing deal on Monday. The parties have agreed that the RJD will contest 168 of the 243 seats in Bihar and the LJP will field candidates in the [...]
JD-U to chalk out Bihar poll strategy
Aug 18 (IANS): Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday began a two-day meet in Nalanda district to chalk out the strategy for the upcoming assembly election. The session in Rajgir was jointly inaugurated by party president Sharad Yadav and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Sharad Yadav said the party will discuss the strategy to take on [...]
Bihar minister plans to invite Modi for campaign
Aug 18 (IANS): A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister in Bihar’s Nitish Kumar-led government plans to invite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for campaigning in his constituency if he contests in the upcoming assembly elections. Ten days after Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United’s (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav said no to Narendra Modi campaigning in the state [...]
Bihar government to submit fresh memo to Centre seeking assistance
Patna, Aug 18(PTI): The Bihar government would soon submit a supplementary memorandum to the Centre seeking financial assistance to take up relief operations in 10 more districts that were declared drought hit on August 15 following deficient rainfall. A decision to this effect was taken late last night at a high level meeting of the [...]
Entire Bihar is drought hit, says Nitish Kumar
Patna, Aug 15 (PTI): Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday declared entire Bihar as drought-hit and said his government was taking various measure to provide relief to the affected farmers. “Bihar is facing natural calamity for the fourth year in succession … While the state faced devastating floods in 2007 and 2008, drought has hit [...]
Political change ‘inevitable’ in Bihar: Lalu
Chapra, Aug 07(PTI): Buoyed with the joining of rebel JD(U) leader Prabhunath Singh, RJD president Lalu Prasad on Saturday said political change in Bihar after the Assembly polls later this year was “inevitable”. “It (political change) has now become inevitable … The ineffective Nitish Kumar government is bound to go after the Assembly polls later [...]
Bihar to seek Rs 15,000-crore Central package for drought
Patna, Aug 05(PTI): The Bihar government will seek a special financial package of Rs 15,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought in 28 of the state’s 38 districts. Sources in the state’s disaster management department said a report, which was being given final touches, seeking assistance of Rs 15,000 crore would be placed before [...]
Bihar declares 28 of 38 districts drought-hit
Aug 03, (PTI): The Bihar government today declared 28 out of 38 districts in the state as drought-hit following deficient rainfall. The cabinet presided over by Chief minister Nitish Kumar took a decision to this effect after making an intensive review of the situation in the state on reports received from district magistrates and other [...]
Lalu slams Nitish Kumar over price rise
Aug 01 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of failing to tackle the hoarding and black marketing, causing price rise. Addressing a Party function here on Saturday, Yadav said the price rise was a result of wrong policies of both the Bihar Government and the [...]
Bihar stares at drought again
Patna, July 30 (IANS) : Bihar plans to declare more than two dozen districts drought hit soon, with the state already recording a 20 percent rainfall deficit, officials said Friday. An official in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s office said the decision was likely to be taken in the next cabinet meeting in a day or two. [...]
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar meets Governor Devanand Konwar
Patna, July 29 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday had an hour-long discussion with state Governor Devanand Konwar at the Rajbhavan here. Officials at the chief minister’s office and Rajbhavan described it as “a courtesy call” by Kumar. The meeting came barely a week after a delegation of Opposition parties submitted a memorandum [...]
Report on sex workers’ condition ready in Bihar
July 28 (IANS): The first detailed report on the socio-economic condition of sex workers in Bihar is ready to be handed over to the state government. The survey was conducted jointly by the Women Development Corporation and Parcham, a Muzaffarpur-based NGO headed by a sex worker’s daughter. An official said the survey was conducted in [...]
It’s Janata Dal ‘disunited’ in Bihar
July 27 (IANS): Assembly elections may be barely months away, but Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) seems anything but united with clashes and violence marring several meetings of party workers in the last few days. On Tuesday, JD-U workers kept up the trend with clashes in Bhagalpur and Siwan districts. Similar trouble had broken out [...]
Boy hung upside down, beaten in Bihar village
Patna, July 27 (CNN-IBN): A boy was hung upside down and beaten mercilessly in a Bihar village on Monday by the husband of the panchayat chief Sangita Devi. The OBC boy, Rajesh Mahato, was accused of a rape attempt and then assaulted. The victim’s family though claims that the boy was punished for exposing corruption [...]
Women give ‘birth’ to 5 children in 2 months in Bihar
Patna, July 26 (IANS) A woman, as everyone knows, usually gives birth to a baby after nine months of pregnancy, but in Bihar 298 women claim to have delivered two to five children in a span of 60 days – at least that’s what records of incentives amount given to new mothers under a government [...]
Bihar governor working like opposition worker: JD-U
Patna, July 23 (IANS) Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has alleged that Governor Devanand Konwar was working like a “worker of the opposition” over demands for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s resignation for his alleged involvement in a Rs.11,412 crore scam. Angry over the opposition demanding the resignation of Nitish Kumar, JD-U state president Vijay Kumar [...]
Bihar: Appropriation bill related to supplementary budget adopted
Patna, July 23 (PTI): Bihar assembly on Friday adopted the appropriation bill (III), 2010 related to first supplementary budget making a provision of Rs 5498.66 crore. Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who also holds the Finance portfolio, told the house that out of Rs 5498.66 crore, a sum of Rs 2273.01 crore had been made available [...]
Nitish Kumar must go: Bihar Oppn
Patna, July 22 (IANS): The Opposition in Bihar on Thursday stuck to its demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alleged involvement in a Rs 11,412 crore scam, a day after a slipper was flung at the assembly speaker amid unruly scenes. And, upping the ante, 11 legislators of the Lok [...]
HC to hear plea against CBI probe in Bihar irregularities
Patna, July 22(IANS): The Patna High Court is set to hear the Bihar government’s plea to review the court’s decision for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into irregularities of Rs 11,412 crore in the state on Thursday. In a suit filed on Monday, the state government said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) [...]
LJP demands for Prez rule in Bihar
July 21 (Samay Live): Lok Janshakti Party on Wednesday in view of the Constitutional breakdown in Bihar, demanded imposition of President’s rule in the state. ”There is a complete Constitutional breakdown in Bihar. People are coming out on the streets against corruption. I demand that President’s rule be imposed there. LJP and RJD will also [...]
Free-for-all among Bihar netas in House
Patna, July 20 (TNN) : In an unusual display of muscle, honourable ruling and opposition members of the Bihar legislative assembly had their sleeves rolled up on Tuesday as they trooped into the well of the House, uprooted the reporters’ table ahead of the Speaker’s podium and threw reporters’ chairs at each other, leaving quite a [...]
Gates of Bihar assembly shut after lawmakers clash
July 20 (IANS): Gates of the Bihar assembly complex were shut and security tightened Tuesday evening after clashes between the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and opposition members in the assembly over alleged financial irregularities in the state. Entry to the assembly premises was prohibited, mediapersons were made to leave and even former chief minister Lalu [...]
Lalu to Nitish: I won’t forget this humiliation
Patna, July 20 (PTI): RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was on Tuesday prevented from entering the Bihar Assembly where opposition MLAs were on an indefinite dharna demanding the resignation of the Nitish Kumar government. Prasad drove straight from the airport to the Assembly and insisted that he be permitted to meet his agitating colleagues in the [...]
Rabri out of fight for CM’s post in Bihar polls
July 20 (IANS) : She has been chief minister for eight years, but Rabri Devi may be out of the reckoning this time with the view that only her husband and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad or partner LJP’s Ram Vilas Paswan can counter Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Bihar assembly polls. In fact, Lalu Prasad [...]
Nitish tries to feed judges
July 19 (DC Correspondent): The Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar’s attempt to break bread with the judiciary after being named as one of the accused in the over Rs 11,500-crore treasury scam, failed on Sunday. Top judges, including Supreme Court judge V.S. Sirpurkar, Patna High Court Chief Justice Rekha Manharlal Doshit and other judges stayed away [...]
Despite differeces, JD(U) decides to fight Bihar polls with BJP
July, 17 (PTI): Notwithstanding the strains in their relations with BJP, JD(U) will fight next year’s elections in Bihar in alliance with the saffron outfit, party’s national President Sharad Yadav said on Saturday. “Alliance with the BJP is an old one. We will fight the elections from the same alliance and we will work out [...]
Bihar opposition parties demand Nitish Kumar’s resignation
Patna, July 16 (IANS) The opposition parties in Bihar called for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday, a day after Patna High Court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against him into alleged financial irregularities of Rs.11,412 crore. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), the Congress and [...]
Nitish, Modi will be jailed: Lalu, Paswan
July 16(PTI): Virtually kicking off a joint campaign for the assembly polls in Bihar slated for the year end, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his LJP counterpart Ramvilas Paswan on Friday accused the ruling NDA of unleashing ‘a reign of corruption and terror in the state’. “Today’s meeting marks the beginning of end of the [...]
Kumar’s ‘soft approach’ insult to martyrs of Naxalism: Congress
July 16 (PTI): Bihar Congress on Friday accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of adopting a “soft approach” on the Maoist problem, saying his stand on the issue was an insult to the sacrifices made by security personnel in the fight against Naxalism. “The Bihar Chief Minister has called for a ‘soft’ approach against the Maoists [...]
CBI probe: Bihar will comment on HC order soon, says Sushil Modi
July 16 (PTI): Bihar government will clear its position on the alleged irregularities in execution of welfare and development schemes after studying the High Court order for CBI probe, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday said in Patna. “The State government will make its position on the issue of the alleged irregularities soon”, [...]
Lalu Yadav blames Nitish Kumar for rise of Maoist menace in Bihar
July 15 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday blamed the Nitish Kumar-led Government in Bihar for the rise of Maoist violence in the region. “Under the rule of Nitish Kumar, Maoist movement has covered two-third of the state, 31 districts. And Maoists are going on spreading,” said Yadav terming the [...]
HC orders CBI probe into scam involving Bihar CM
Patna, July 15 (DH News Service): The Patna High Court on Thursday asked the CBI to investigate the ‘fraudulent withdrawal’ of Rs 11,412 crore from the State exchequer, in which Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav and 44 others have been named accused. Taking serious [...]
Bihar govt upset over the appointment of new MU VC
The Bihar NEWS, April 19: The appointment of Prof Arvind Kumar as the new VC of Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, has created storm in the corridors of power. The human resources development minister, Hari Narayan Singh, on Saturday said that the state government was not consulted by the Raj Bhawan on the issue of appointment [...]
RJD accuses CM of dividing Dalits, other castes
The Bihar NEWS, April 19: A day after the Mahadalit Commission submitted its fourth report to the chief minister the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Sunday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of dividing the society on caste and sub-caste lines. At a function organised by Bhuiyan and Musahar community at the party headquarters in [...]
Nitish shows Brahmins their place, urges them to be Chanakya of Emperor
The Bihar NEWS: Last Sunday (April 11) Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had a date with another prominent caste of Bihar––the Brahimins. The politician, who graced the first-ever caste conference of Bihar in the post-Mandal years, the Kurmi Maharally of February 12, 1992 continues to flirt with other such groups till now. Only on February [...]
Five Commissions, Crores of Rupees, No Result
The Bihar NEWS, April 13: After coming to power on November 24, 2005 the Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar, constituted several Commissions. The Bandopadhyaya Commission was set up to study the prospect of land reforms in the state. It was headed by D Bandopadhyaya, the bureaucrat to whom the credit of Operation Barga in West [...]
Signature campaign to seek special status for Bihar
Patna, April 8 (IANS) Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has decided to launch a campaign to collect 10 million signatures to pressurise the central government to accord special category status to the state. JD-U spokesperson Shivanand Tiwari said that the party will launch the signature drive soon. “After obtaining signatures of 10 million people, the [...]
Mahadalit Commission totally unconstitutional, illegal: Buta
The Bihar NEWS, April 08: Dubbing the state Mahadalit Commission as totally unconstitutional and illegal the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Buta Singh on Tuesday accused the Nitish Kumar government of not providing the benefits of reservation to the Dalit community in Bihar. Talking to reporters after a three-member panel of the Commission [...]
Sixteen (16) men got death sentence in Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre
Patna, April 07: A court here Wednesday sentenced to death 16 men and awarded life imprisonment to eight others who were convicted in the Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre in which 58 Dalits were killed by upper caste Ranvir Sena men in Bihar in 1997. The sentence was pronounced by Additional District and Sessions Judge of the Patna [...]
Now Nitish to undertake Vishwas Yatra
The Bihar NEWS, April 07: Perhaps the three successful Yatras have not instilled as enough confidence in him. That is why the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced that he would undertake Vishwas Yatra (Confidence March) to seek people’s confidence for the second time. Addressing the state executive committee meeting of the Janata [...]
JD-U hints at softening of opposition to women’s bill
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) With the numbers favouring the passage of the women’s reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha Monday, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), a prominent party opposing it, Sunday indicated a softening of its position. JD-U chief whip in the Rajya Sabha Ali Anwar Ansari said the party will consider the opinion of [...]
