New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's convoy rammed into an auto rickshaw in Jamui on Monday, killing three villagers. Seven policemen were also injured in the mishap. Nitish was not in the convoy at the time of the accident. The incident happened after the cavalcade dropped Nitish at Nawada after a rally. Nitish Kumar has been addressing rallies demanding a special status for Bihar. ...
08:55 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Munger: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday denied that he had ever scuttled the special status demand made by Rabri Devi and taunted Lalu Prasad that being a powerful minister in the UPA-I he should have used his influence to get the demand met by the UPA government if it was not done by the NDA government. "It's an absolute lie that I had got the special demand made...
03:48 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Purnia (Bihar): Lambasting RJD chief Lalu Prasad, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday alleged that the governments of the 'husband and wife' (Laloo-Rabri) had ruined the state. The governments of the husband (Prasad) and wife (Rabri Devi) had ruined Bihar during their rule between 1990 and 2005, he told a public meeting here. Taking on the RJD supremo for questioning lack of development in Bihar, Kumar said the NDA...
05:55 PM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will begin the second phase of his Adhikar Yatra on Saturday. The yatra aims at mobilising support for a special category status for Bihar. Police teams led by magistrates have been deployed at various points security has been tightened after some violent incidents during the first phase. The yatra is scheduled to begin by addressing a public meeting at the Zila school ground....
07:02 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Patna: The rift between the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), coalition partners in the Bihar government, has widened. The latter on Friday called for a Hunkaar rally in the state in April 2013, in response to the Adhikaar rally by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. More importantly, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is expected to participate in the BJP's rally. Modi and Nitish do not see eye-to-eye and...
03:28 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's demand for a special category status to the state is a political drama, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad said on Thursday. "In 2002, when NDA was in power and Nitish Kumar was railway minister, he forced (then Prime Minister Atal Bihari) Vajpayee during his visit to Patna to announce that the central government will not accord special category status to Bihar," Lalu Prasad...
03:09 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday claimed the JD(U) BJP alliance in Bihar is unlikely to last long and indicated it was not averse to doing business with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar if his ties with BJP are snapped. "Whatever JD-U has been doing for sometime, it is becoming clear that it has to carry the load (BJP). We do not think that all is well between the load and the...
03:31 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Patna: Economic development of Bihar was the key to India's stride towards becoming a global superpower, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said reiterating his demand for granting special category status to his state. "If the country has to become global economic superpower, Bihar must also develop in a big way and for that it requires grant of special category status to boost development," he said at a function....
11:15 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday claimed that the JD(U)-BJP alliance in Bihar is unlikely to last long and indicated it was not averse to doing business with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar if his ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were snapped. "Whatever JD(U) has been doing for sometime, it is becoming clear that it has to carry the load (BJP). We do not think that all is well...
08:35 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Patna: In a sign of strain in the ruling alliance in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to part ways with the Janata Dal (United). The BJP has said that the party is preparing to contest all 40 seats in the next Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to mediapersons in Patna, CP Thakur, the president of the Bihar unit of the BJP, said that the party was already preparing...
04:20 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is facing more embarrassment. After public protests against him, now his party JD(U)'s own ally, the BJP, is also protesting against his government in Bihar. The brother of Nitish's close confidante NK Singh, BJP leader Pappu Singh, has targeted the CM over corruption and inept bureaucracy. While the elder brother is a key advisor to Nitish on bringing private investment to Bihar, the younger...
08:36 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Patna: Eighteen policemen - seven inspectors and 11 constables - were suspended on Sunday for failing to prevent the attacks on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's cavalcade during his Adhikar Yatra. The Bihar police on Saturday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a superintendent of police, to probe the protests. The SIT filed an FIR against 75 named and 600 unknown people. There were protests in Motihari, Begusarai and...
01:21 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Khagaria: Ranvir Yadav, who was captured on video cameras snatching an automatic weapon from police and firing in the air to disperse protesters near Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's public meeting at Khagaria town, has no case lodged against him, district police superintendent said on Saturday. "No one has filed case with police against Yadav for terrorising anybody by branding a weapon on Thursday and so the question of giving him...
07:46 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Patna: Opposition RJD charged Nitish Kumar government on Saturday with having imposed 'undeclared emergency' in Bihar to suppress spontaneous protest by the people during his ongoing 'Adhikar Yatra'. "An undeclared emergency-like situation prevails in Bihar at the moment, particularly in those districts being visited by the chief minister to address public meeting to mobilise support to the special status demand for Bihar," RJD leaders Abdul Bari Siddique, state unit president...
06:58 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Patna: The Bihar police has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a superintendent of police, and filed an FIR against 75 named and 600 unknown people in connection with the violent protests during Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Adhikar Yatra over the past week. There were protests in Motihari, Begusarai and Khagaria during the Yatra, undertaken by Nitish to put pressure on the Centre over his demand for special...
09:33 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Patna: Contractual teachers threw slippers at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during a public meeting in Bihar's Madhepura district on Friday, police said. "Some of them threw four or five slippers at the stage where the Chief Minister was sitting to express their anger," a police official said. The teachers (known as para-teachers) were protesting against Nitish Kumar for the non-fulfilment of their demands. Earlier in the day, 23 contractual...
07:15 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Patna: A former MLA of the Janata Dal (United) on Friday snatched the carbine of a policeman on duty and started firing in air when a few protesters tried to attack the cavalcade of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Khagaria, Bihar, during his Adhikar Yatra. Ranveer Yadav, husband of present JDU MLA Poonam Yadav, was seen brandishing a gun and chasing people away. Reports say that he even snatched...
02:25 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Khagaria/Begusarai: Large scale violence and arson by contractual teachers and protesters marred Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's public meetings in Bihar's Khagaria and Begusarai districts held on Thursday to mobilise mass support for grant of special status to the state. Official sources said the protesters, most of them contractual teachers, set on fire three motorcycles and a jeep belonging to the police near Khagaria district collectorate when they were prevented from...
08:04 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Darbhanga: A protester among a group of contractual workers on Wednesday showed a slipper to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at a public meeting in this district, official sources said. The man suddenly took his 'chappal' in his hand and showed it to Kumar as he was addressing a gathering to press for the special status demand. TV channel cameras captured the unidentified protester waving his 'chappal' in the chief...
11:02 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Patna: Criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for notifying 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he has 'neither time nor interest to hear the grievances of the people'. "The PM is not bothered about the problems of the people and so he is not able to spare time or have interest to hear their grievances even as he is keen to keep...
02:40 AM, Sep 25, 2012
