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PATNA—Bihar chief minster Nitish Kumar found himself in an awkward situation when an elderly villager protested against him at an election rally on Monday. Nitish was addressing an election rally in Rafignaj block of Aurangabad district…
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PATNA—For the first time, a political party has given a ticket to a eunuch or transgender to contest assembly elections in Bihar. Ram Darshan Prasad alias Munna Kinner has been fielded by the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) from Hathua…
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PATNA—A women candidate from Bihar gave birth to a baby girl right in the midst of electioneering, leaving the responsibility of her campaigns on the shoulders of the family and party workers. Shushumlalta Kushwaha who is JD-U candidate…
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PATNA—Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan on Saturday mounted heavy attacks on the BJP after initially maintaining calm. Chirag questioned the BJP’s explanation for describing his party it as “vote-katwa” (vote-splitter)…
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PATNA—In June this year, Union home minister Amit Shah had addressed the first virtual rally with his eye on the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar. In the days to come to come, other political parties followed suit and began focusing…
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In a significant development, the Nepal police have recovered 22 kilograms of gold slabs worth over Rs12 crore (Rs120 million) from the house of a BJP leader Pramod Sinha’s brother. Pramod Sinha is BJP candidate from Raxaul seat in east…
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PATNA—Ministers are fast falling victims to deadly Covid-19 in Bihar as the state gears up for assembly elections amid corona outbreak. Bihar Panchayati Raj minster Kapil Dev Kamat is the latest to become a victim of Covid-19. He was 69.…
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PATNA—Angry villagers blocked roads, burnt tyres and shouted slogans to protest government’s move to ban Durga puja pandals in view of Covid-19. The villagers took to streets in Sursand block of Sitamarhi district on Thursday which badly…
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PATNA—The 2020 assembly elections in Bihar will be remembered for having the largest number of chief ministerial candidates in the fray. As many as six chief ministerial candidates are trying their luck in this election from various…
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PATNA—A lookalike of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting assembly elections in Bihar. The man identified as Abhinandan Pathak is contesting elections as an Independent candidate from Hathua assembly seat in Gopalganj district.…
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