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Bihar Chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi appears to be on the way out in the wake of his defiance as the JD(U) is all set to replace him with his mentor Nitish Kumar at a meeting of the legislature party tomorrow

Bhubaneswar: Putting all speculations to rest, Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik today announced his party’s support to NDA-backed JD(U) candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh for the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman post, the election for which is scheduled to be held tomorrow. Patnaik announced the decision soon after arriving at Bhubaneswar from Mumbai. “Bihar […]

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will contest the coming Bihar assembly elections together, it was announced today

Nitish Kumar today returned as the chief minister of Bihar, nine months after he resigned following his party JD-U's massive defeat in the 2014 general elections. Party leaders said he will meet prime minister Narendra Modi to seek more funds to speed up development work in the state

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has withdrawn his candidature as chancellor of Nalanda University, alleging that the government does not want him to continue to head the prestigious multi-country initiative. The government denied the allegations even as the opposition Congress asked it not to politicise the issue

We are now waiting for a word from the governor, said JD-U leader Nitish Kumar after Jitan Ram Manjhi put in his papers as Bihar chief minister

By Sandeep Sahu All eyes are now fixed on March 11, the day the votes cast in the just concluded Assembly elections will be counted. While the Congress and AAP have a lot at stake in the outcome of polls in Punjab and Goa, it is the results of the polls in Uttar Pradesh that […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 142 rallies during his marathon election campaign, devoting 40 per cent of these in the politically-crucial Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha which have a combined seat strength of 143 Lok Sabha seats. During the high-pitch campaign that began from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and concluded in Khargone […]

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by Naveen Patnaik in Odisha received the highest donation of Rs 13.4 cr among the regional parties through electoral bonds during the financial year 2017-18, as per a report of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). Out of the 48 regional parties analyzed, only 15 parties submitted […]

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday inducted eight JD-U MLAs as Cabinet Ministers, leaving out his ally the BJP and fuelling speculation of a rift between the two parties. The Cabinet expansion came two days after the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief decided that his party won’t join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government […]

Patna: The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday decided not be a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance outside the Bihar. At its national executive meeting held at the official residence of JD-U chief Nitish Kumar here, the party also decided to go it alone in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, […]

Bhubaneswar: To push its demand for special category status for Odisha, the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is planning to join hands with the YSR Congress and the JD(U) in Parliament and raise their voice unitedly. The chief ministers of Odisha, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh — Naveen Patnaik of BJD, Nitish Kumar of JD(U) and […]

New Delhi: Putting all speculation to rest, BJP President J.P. Nadda announced on Sunday that the BJP will contest the Bihar Assembly election along with the JD-U and LJP – two of its allies who have been publicly making statements against each other. “Whenever BJP, JD-U and Lok Janshakti Party have come together, the NDA […]

Patna: The ruling NDA in Bihar on Tuesday announced its seat-sharing formula for the assembly elections under which JD(U) will contest on 122 seats and BJP 121 out of a total of 243 seats. BJP backed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s leadership to the hilt and rebuffed LJP chief Chirag Paswan who has raised a banner […]

Sasaram (Bihar): Five days ahead of the first phase of Bihar Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the state’s people cannot forget the “lawlessness” seen during the 15-year rule of the opposition (Rashtriya Janata Dal). “People of Bihar know what the situation was at that time. People were killed in broad […]