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Nitish Kumar's move to rename Raghunathpur station prompts ally BJP to revive its old demand for renaming Bakhtiyarpur

PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s recent move to rename Raghunathpur railway station after Baba Brahmeshwar Nath, on Friday prompted ally BJP to revive its old demand for renaming Bakhtiyarpur town and its railway station.

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900 people died due to lightning strikes in Bihar in last two-and-a-half years

PATNA: Altogether 900 people died due to lightning strikes in Bihar in the last two and a half years.

The Times of India

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launches school and hostel projects worth about Rs 415 crore

PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday launched different projects worth about Rs 415 crore of the backward classes extremely backward classes welfare department during an event held at ‘Samvad’ hall in the CM secretariat in Patna.

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BJP leaders hail nomination for Jagdeep Dhankhar, Nitish Kumar to back him

NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leaders including Union home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and party president JP Nadda on Saturday said the election of NDA’s Vice-Presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has a farming background, to the constitutional post will further increase the dignity of the chair.

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Nitish Kumar's JD(U) to support Jagdeep Dhankhar in vice-presidential election

PATNA: Bihar CM and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar on Saturday welcomed the decision to declare West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as the NDA’s candidate for the vice-president post.

The Times of India

Bihar: Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha seeks JD(U)’s support

PATNA: Opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Friday invoked his Bihari identity and appealed to the lawmakers to vote for him in national interest, as well as to ward off the lurking dangers to the country’s practice of democracy, and to also prevent the misuse of institutions like CBI, ED…

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BJP, JD(U) at loggerheads over Patna SSP's controversial remarks about RSS

PATNA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and JD(U) — the two leading NDA allies in the Nitish Kumar-led coalition government — are at loggerheads over recent controversial remarks by Patna SSP Manavendra Singh Dhillon.

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Opposition leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and others condole death of former minister Ramai Ram

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar and leader of opposition in state assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Thursday condoled the death of former minister Ramai Ram, who breathed his last at a private hospital here following a prolonged illness.

The Times of India

Transfer row: BJP bid to cool down minister Ram Surat Rai in Patna

PATNA: As the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) stayed the transfer of 149 circle officers (COs) made earlier by revenue and land reforms department (RLRD) minister Ram Surat Rai, the latter has adopted a strong posture on the issue, leading to the reappearance of the rift among NDA allies BJP and…

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Expenses on treatment of former CM Lalu Prasad will be borne by Bihar government, says Nitish Kumar

PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said expenses on treatment of former CM and RJD president Lalu Prasad would be borne by the state government.

The Times of India

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar visits ailing Lalu Prasad at Patna hospital

Bihar CM meets RJD leader Lalu Prasad before he is taken to Delhi by air ambulance for further treatment

The Hindu

Droupadi Murmu meets NDA lawmakers in Bihar to seek support

State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal said it was heartening to note that a Santhali Adivasi woman was set to become the President of the country

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Former Bihar minister Narendra Singh dies at 75

A socialist stalwart of the JP movement, he served as agriculture minister in Nitish Kumar’s cabinet till 2014

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Patna: Droupadi to meet NDA netas and chief minister Nitish Kumar today

PATNA: NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu will visit Patna on Tuesday morning to meet senior BJP leaders and CM Nitish Kumar to sick support in the presidential election on July 18. The opposition has fielded Yashwant Sinha.

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Patna: Plaints against land mafias and criminals

PATNA: Most of the people who visited CM Nitish Kumar at his weekly ‘janata darbar’ programme on Monday had complaints against dominant persons of their respective areas for forcefully grabbing their plots of land. Some of them also complained against criminals intimidating to eliminate their families. The CM directed the…

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Patna: Former minister Narendra Singh passes away at 75

PATNA: Former minister Narendra Singh (75) died after prolonged liver-related ailment here on Monday. He had been rushed to the hospital for treatment Monday night. He was one of the prominent faces that had emerged in Bihar from the 1974 JP movement.

The Hindu

Tejashwi makes fresh bid to fish in NDA's troubled waters

The BJP was obviously flabbergasted by the scale and intensity of the protests against Agnipath scheme.

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As Maharashtra goes Bihar way, how BJP looks to change power equations in both states

NEW DELHI: As Maharashtra got a new chief minister on Thursday evening with Eknath Shinde, the leader of the rebel faction of the Shiv Sena, taking oath of office, it became the second state after Bihar where the BJP does not have its CM despite the party having more MLAs…

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Thin attendance in Bihar assembly triggers fresh speculations of BJP-JD(U) rift

A “boycott” of the remaining part of the monsoon session was announced during the lunch hour by the leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar: Remove silt to increase depth and width of Gandak

PATNA: Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday inspected anti-erosion work on the bank of the Gandak river near Balha Basant village under Lalganj block in Vaishali district and asked the engineers concerned to remove silt on the other side of the river to increase its width and depth.

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Bihar: I’m nobody’s ‘Hanuman’, says senior JD(S) leader RCP

PATNA: Union steel minister and senior JD(U) leader RCP Singh lost his cool when mediapersons asked him whether he was still the ‘Hanuman’ of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, like Jamui MP Chirag Paswan used to refer himself for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Week after getting 'Y' category security, Bihar BJP MLA Haribhushan Thakur Bachol claims death threat from 'jihadis'

PATNA: A BJP MLA in Bihar, who was among the 10 party leaders from the state to have been provided 'Y' category security cover last week, on Friday claimed to have received death threats from those upset over his tirade against "jihadis".

The Hindu

Why Nitish Kumar is counting on a caste count in Bihar

His electoral stock vis-a-vis the BJP is dwindling — the enumeration exercise could help him recover political capital

The Hindu

Morning Digest | Uddhav Thackeray fights to keep control over Shiv Sena; Nitish Kumar affirms support for NDA’s Presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu, and more

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Nitish Kumar to support NDA Presidential candidate

Droupadi Murmu’s victory is a foregone conclusion, says JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh

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