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NEW DELHI/PATNA—The Centre on Wednesday made it clear that there was proposal with the Union government to grant special status to Bihar or any other States. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme…
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PATNA/NEW DELHI—The Janata Dal United (JD-U) on Saturday finally released its first list of assembly seats it will be contesting in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections after its elongated wait for seat-sharing deal with the BJP went entirely…
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PATNA—The continuing conflicts between the two NDA allies, BJP and the JD-U, appeared turning serious on Monday with the BJP leadership asking the JD-U to stay within the limits and stop “playing Twitter-Twitter” with the Prime Minister.…
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PATNA—Senior RJD leader Salim Pervez returned to the JD-U on Sunday in the presence of chief minister Nitish Kumar and party chief Lalan Singh. The homecoming comes some three years after he had quit the JD-U to join the main opposition…
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PATNA—The Nitish Kumar government has finally dropped its demand for special category status to Bihar saying it is tired of making this demand. “We have been demanding special status from the central government for a long time but the…
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PATNA—In a curious political development, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has decided not to attend a function being organized to mark the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Devi Lal who served the deputy Prime Minister in the government of…
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By SAYED MOHAMMAD SHAHBAZ PATNA—In another interesting development, both ruling party and the opposition joined together to criticize price hike in the country. Top leaders of Nitish Kumar’s JD-U and Lalu Yadav’s RJD on Thursday…
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PATNA—The continuing confrontation between the two ruling NDA partners in Bihar, the JD-U and the BJP, over the caste-based census is getting stronger by the day. The development comes after the Union government announced not to enumerate…
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PATNA—Pushed to the third position after last year’s Bihar assembly polls, the ruling Janata Dal United (JD-U) is working hard to expand its base outside the state. Under part of the plan, the party wants to contest as many seats in UP…
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PATNA—If the BJP today is number One party in Bihar NDA in matters of numerical strength, the entire credit for this straightway goes to now embattled Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Chirag Paswan who decided to contest against chief…
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