Tag: Upendra Kushwaha

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical colleges and the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to engineering colleges might be conducted twice a year, informed Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Upendra Kushwaha in the Lok Sabha on Monday. In reply to a written question in […]

Bhubaneswar: Only 33.03 per cent schools in Odisha have electricity connection against the overall 62.81 per cent in the country, Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Upendra Kushwaha said in the Rajya Sabha today. Apart from Odisha, Bihar (37.78), Madhya Pradesh (28.80), Manipur (39.27), Assam (25), Meghalaya (28.54) and Tripura (29.77) are other […]

New Delhi: RLSP leader Upendra Kushwaha on Monday quit the BJP-led NDA and the Modi government, charging Prime Minister Narendra Modi with betraying Bihar and with pursuing an “opaque style of functioning and non-democratic leadership style”. Kushwaha, who is the second BJP ally to quit the Modi government after the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), said […]

New Delhi: Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) leader Upendra Kushwaha on Monday quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and resigned as a Minister in the Modi government. Kushwaha, who has been at loggerheads with the BJP for some time, sent his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he (Modi) had failed to live […]

Patna: State governments should set up regulatory bodies to check the “whimsical and arbitrary functioning” of private schools, Union minister Upendra Kushwaha said here today. The Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development said that the central government is taking steps to find a solution to the problem. “In order to check arbitrary and […]

Patna: Bihar’s ruling JD(U) on Sunday received a shot in the arm with the merger of RLSP of Upendra Kushwaha, a former protege of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who came back under his wing nine years after having fallen apart. The merger took place at the JD(U) state headquarters here, where the chief minister welcomed […]