Kishor had also announced to start 'Jan Suraj' (Good Governance) campaign in Bihar and conduct padyatra of 3000 km to connect with common people of the state.
The CM also said that it was Gandhi who had helped the country get Independence and, as such, those who disagreed with him on the issue of alcohol "cannot be called Hindustanis or Bharatiyas".
However, sources have said that the youth is mentally unstable, and the motive for his attack on the Chief Minister is yet to be ascertained yet. Patna police are investigating the background of the accused.
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 […]
Patna: A die-hard political supporter of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sacrificed his fourth finger after the formation of NDA government in Bihar. Anil Sharma alias Ali Baba (45), a resident of Vaina village under Ghosi police station in Bihar’s Jehanabad district has been carrying out this bizarre celebration for close to 15 years. Every time […]
Patna: Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary has resigned after allegedly facing corruption charges in the recruitment of assistant professors and scientists. An hour after assuming office on Thursday, he resigned as education minister. He was sworn in as a cabinet minister just a few days ago along with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Earlier on Thursday, […]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday inducted new cabinet a day after taking oath for a new term along with his ministerial colleagues and allocated portfolios among them. CM Nitish Kumar kept home, general administration, vigilance and three more departments with himself. Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad got finance, commercial tax, environment, forest […]
Patna: Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time on Monday which was also his fourth successive term. Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath to Kumar at the ceremony at Raj Bhavan. He was sworn in as the CM for the 7th time in his 20 years of political […]
Patna: Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as the Bihar chief minister for a fourth straight term and 13 ministers from NDA parties will be sworn in by Governor Phagu Chauhan here on Monday. The ceremony will be attended by the top BJP leaders including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J P […]
Patna: Nitish Kumar will be Bihar Chief Minister for fourth consecutive term, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) said after a meeting of its legislators in Patna today. The NDA will go to Governor Phagu Chauhan to stake claim to form the government. named Nitish Kumar as their CM, at was held at the official residence […]
Purnea (Bihar): With the campaigning for the third and last phase of Bihar Assembly elections concluding on Thursday, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made a big announcement saying it was his last election. Addressing an election rally in Purnea’s Dhamdaha, Nitish said: “Today is the last day of campaigning. Voting is due day after tomorrow and […]
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 […]
Patna: With campaigning for assembly elections on at full swing in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will add further heft and heat to the proceedings from Friday. Prime Minister Modi will launch his campaign on Friday by addressing a rally at Dehri in Rohtas district. This will be followed […]
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 […]
New Delhi: Over 50 per cent voters in Bihar want to change the government when the state goes to the polls next month, as per the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey. As per the survey, as many as 56.7 per cent of voters are ‘unhappy’ with the government and want a change, while 29.8 […]
Bhubaneswar: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday spoke to his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik seeking the Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) support for the JD(U) candidate in the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman’s election. JD(U) parliamentarian Harivansh Narayan Singh has filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman’s post as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) […]
Patna: The untimely death of Sushant Singh Rajput has come as a shock to millions of fans of the Patna- born actor, inside Bihar and elsewhere, and the CBI probe is expected to bring out the truth behind it and ensure justice, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday. Kumar, who was addressing a virtual […]
Patna: In a major development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has recommended CBI probe in the mysterious death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, after SSR’s family formally requested for the same. Bihar CM said that he has asked the Bihar DGP to initiate recommendations for a CBI probe in the case. Speaking to Republic […]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday asserted that National Register for Citizens will not be implemented in the state, putting at rest speculations raised by his JD(U)s support to the Citizenship Amendment Act. Kumar made this clear in a terse reply to queries from journalists who had sought his response on the proposed […]
Patna: As tension over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) engulfs Bihar, posters of ‘missing’ Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were seen at various places here on Tuesday. It is not yet known who put up the posters targeting the Chief Minister at various locations including Veerchand Patel Road, Airport Road as they don’t carry the name […]
Gopalganj (Bihar): Blaming porn sites for the rising incidence of sexual crimes against women, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday urged the Centre to ban all such internet platforms which proffered voyeuristic pleasure through video clips of rapes purportedly filmed by the perpetrators themselves. Referring to the infamous rape and murder case of Hyderabad […]
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday batted for full statehood for Delhi as his party Janata Dal (United) geared up for the state assembly polls due early next year here. Addressing workers of his party, which is the BJP-led NDA ally, JD (U) president Kumar also reiterated his demand for a special […]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday spoke to his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar on the current flood situation in Bihar. Speaking over the phone this evening, the Chief Minister offered all possible help to the Bihar government in its efforts to manage the floods. Bihar is facing one of the worst floods in […]
In what could be a big relief for the agitating contractual teachers who had threatened to go on a massive strike over demands of 7th Pay Commission benefits, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has come up with a big announcement for around 3.5 lakh such contractual teachers. If reports are anything to go by, these teachers […]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed ongoing operations against Naxals and development initiatives being undertaken in Left Wing Extremism affected areas, officials said. Chief ministers Nitish Kumar (Bihar), Naveen Patnaik (Odisha), Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Kamal Nath (Madhya Pradesh), Raghubar Das (Jharkhand), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) besides top police and civil officials […]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday refused to say anything over the deaths of 121 children caused by Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur district. The Chief Minister has yet to break his silence over deaths of so many children from AES. Mediapersons repeatedly tried to put questions to him in connection with […]
New Delhi: With over 100 children losing their lives to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Bihar, social media users are livid with strong messages targeting several key functionaries, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while others have even asked for their resignations. “Nitish Kumar: A heartless man, a terrible friend, a disloyal ally and an awful […]
New Delhi: A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking direction to the Centre to urgently constitute a team of medical experts for treatment of children in Bihar suspected to be suffering from acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), which had claimed more than 100 lives. The plea also sought direction to the Centre […]
Patna: Hundreds of angry protesters staged a demonstration on Tuesday against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s visit to Muzaffarpur district, where 107 children have died due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). The protest took place outside the state-run Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), where Nitish Kumar arrived with Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi. […]
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, […]
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: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asserted that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, jailed for corruption, will never get out of prison. “Lalu will not get out of jail despite whatever he does. His family has been repeatedly alleging that Lalu was framed by me and he was in jail due […]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said no one has any concern for the country and that political parties are only concerned about the votes ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. “Desh ki chinta kisi ko nahi hai. Rajnitik dalon ko kewal vote ki chinta hai,” Nitish Kumar told the media in […]
Patna:The Bihar government on Sunday dismissed 175 police constables and suspended 23 police officials for rampaging in the city after the death of a female colleague, who was reportedly denied leave despite being ill. More than 300 police constables had gone on a rampage here on November 2, damaging properties and attacking police officers, after […]
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United President Nitish Kumar on Tuesday named Prashant Kishor as the party Vice President, a month after the election strategist joined the party. “He (Kishor) has been appointed Vice President of the party,” JD-U spokesperson and Secretary General K.C. Tyagi told IANS. “The JD-U hopes that Kishore’s experience […]
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has urged the 15th Finance Commission to grant extra central assistance to the state citing its progress with the help of its own limited resources. Making a presentation before the commission headed by its Chairman N K Singh Wednesday, Kumar also expressed disapproval of the doing away with the […]
Bhubaneswar: A day after Harivansh Narayan Singh won the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman election; Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over telephone and thanked him for supporting the NDA-backed JD (U) candidate. Singh was elected deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha yesterday after he won the election with 125 votes against […]
Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday said the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in the state was anti-Dalit as most of the people arrested under prohibition laws were from the community. “Nitish Kumar ki sarkar Dalit virodhi hai, sharab bandi ke kanoon ke naam pe sabse jayada Dalit aaur […]
Gaya: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today called on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at Bodh Gaya near here and also released a book with him. The Dalai Lama, who has been at Bodh Gaya since January 2, received the Chief Minister at the Kalachakra Maidan and presented him with a picture of the […]
Patna: More than 300 leaders and workers of the ruling Janata Dal-United in Bihar on Wednesday resigned from the party in support of senior party leader Uday Narain Choudhary who has revolted against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Most of the workers, including three block unit heads, resigned from the primary membership of the party in […]