Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is poorer than his cabinet colleagues as far as cash assets are concerned. According to details of movable and immovable assets declared by the chief minister and his cabinet ministers for 2012, Nitish Kumar has Rs 14,475 in cash. This was less than the Rs 46,974 he had in 2011. ...
04:56 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Unfazed by the Planning Commission disapproving his demand to grant special category status to Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday made a strong pitch for it, alleging the Centre's Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) did not consider the issue with seriousness. ...
08:02 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Bihar does not meet the existing criteria to be granted the status of special category state, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday. "Bihar does not meet the existing criteria according to which a state is deemed eligible for special category state. We do recognise that Bihar and some parts do have a special problem and as part of BGRF (Backward Regions Grant Fund) we have Bihar...
07:16 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Even as congratulations poured in for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for winning three successive Assembly polls in the state, his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar is keeping a stoic silence, which has set the tongues wagging. ...
03:29 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is all set for a hat-trick as the BJP leads in 112 of the total 182 seats. ...
11:50 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said he would raise the demand for special status state for Bihar at the National Development Council meeting. The chief minister whose party JD(U) had organised a massive rally on November 4 on the demand said, "I will raise the issue in the forthcoming meeting of the National Development Council." ...
10:44 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday endorsed BJP leader Ravishankar Prasad's view that the nominee for the prime minister's post should be from the major party within NDA and said he did not even dream of the office. ...
03:55 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appears anxious about the outcome of Gujarat Assembly elections as it was likely to have a bearing on the JD(U) leader's political future, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said. "Nitish must be praying that Modi should not do well in the Gujarat assembly polls.... If Modi wins handsomely, his prime ministerial ambition will get wings and that will put his Bihar counterpart in obvious...
01:20 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday reiterated his demand for granting special status to the state, saying other financially backward states also had "valid right" to seek additional aid from the Centre. "Bihar will continue to ask the Centre to grant special status," Kumar told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Kolkata. ...
03:37 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Gujarat Parivartan Party leader Keshubhai Patel is hoping to inflict the maximum damage on Modi's re-election prospects, though a number of pre-poll surveys have already predicted a hat-trick of wins for Modi. CNN-IBN's Correspondent Ashok Bagriya joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on whether Keshubhai Patel can dent Narendra Modi's dominance. ...
05:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Relief for Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and JD-U leader Sivanand Tiwari as a special CBI court has rejected a petition seeking to indict the two in a Rs 950 crore fodder scam case, on grounds that there wasn't adequate proof of their involvement. Even earlier, the court had declined the petition but the petitioner got direction from the High Court for the case to be heard in a lower court....
06:54 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Tourism is emerging as a sunrise sector in Bihar where the number of tourists has been doubled in just years "due to improvement in law and order". ...
03:00 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had on Monday said that the state government has launched a crackdown on illegal liquor traders. ...
02:20 PM, Dec 11, 2012
ith Parliament set to take up Amendment Bill to restore quota in promotion for SC/STs, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he favoured the legislation. "I and my party JD(U) is in favour of the Bill for restoration of quota in promotion for SC/STs," Kumar told reporters emerging from his favourite "Janata ke darbar me mukhya mantri" programme. ...
04:49 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Rebel JD(U) Rajya Sabha member Upendra Kushwaha, who voted in favour of FDI in multi-brand retail against the party stand, on Sunday announced that he would resign as MP and also from the party. "I have decided to quit my membership from Rajya Sabha and also from JD(U) to protest dictatorial attitude of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar," Kushwaha said addressing a state-level meeting of a non-political group he has...
06:22 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that with per capita income being one third of the country and low developmental indices in all core sectors, the state would need at least 30 years to catch up with the national average and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to grant special category status to the state to spur its growth. ...
04:54 PM, Dec 09, 2012
BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Friday quashed the hopes of Narendra Modi's supporters to declare him the party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Gadkari said that the BJP would declare its candidate only after 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
12:16 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Amid suggestions by some BJP leaders that Narendra Modi was fit to be the Prime Minister, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said the NDA has not yet decided on its Prime Ministerial candidate and this will be done at a later stage. ...
05:11 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The Bihar government rejected the opposition demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged Rs 6,000 crore scam in the implementation of MNREGA in the state on Monday and questioned the 'political motive' behind the survey carried out by a Delhi-based NGO. ...
08:00 PM, Dec 03, 2012
In the wake of senior BJP leaders backing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the job of prime minister, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Monday threw a challenge at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, asking him to make clear his stance. Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde had earlier made...
03:49 PM, Dec 03, 2012
