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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being greeted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony of various development projects, in Begusarai, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Modi accuses Opposition of using Dalits to justify their ‘politics’

The Prime Minister was in Bihar to inaugurate multiple development projects worth Rs 21,400 crores

03 Mar 2024 1:42 AM

TMC leader and Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha waves towards supporters as he arrives at the party office after winning Asansol parliamentary constituency by-elections, in Asansol, Saturday, April 16, 2022. (PTI Photo)

TMC, Congress, RJD win; BJP draws blank in bypolls

TMC grabs Asansol from BJP, retains Ballygunge

17 Apr 2022 2:40 AM

MLAs of Opposition parties, men and women, were dragged on the ground by the police who had been called in. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Calling the cops on Opp.? Bihar ruckus probe must

In light of this, what was witnessed in the Bihar Assembly last Tuesday can only fill every Indian with shame

26 Mar 2021 4:35 AM

RJD leader and candidate from Raghopur constituency Tejashwi Yadav files his nomination papers for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, at Hajipur in Vaishali district, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (PTI)

Tejashwi Yadav files nomination from Raghopur assembly seat

The RJD leader hinted that he would be releasing his party’s manifesto later this week

15 Oct 2020 9:09 AM

RJD national vice president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (Photo: PTI)

Former union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passes away at Delhi AIIMS

Singh, who had recently resigned from RJD, had fallen critically ill after developing post-COVID complications

13 Sep 2020 2:19 PM

Jailed RJD chief Lalu Yadav has been shifted to the official residence of the hospital director located on the premises. (PTI Photo)

Lalu Yadav shifted to RIMS director's residence amid COVID-19 fear

Doctors said that he is suffering from heart, renal and other serious diseases and needed to be kept away from COVID-19 patients

06 Aug 2020 3:24 PM

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav is likely to visit other districts of the state to take stock of COVID -19 and flood situation. (PTI Photo)

Chief Minister has become invisible says Tejashwi Yadav

As per an assessment more than three lakh people have been badly affected in around eight districts of north Bihar

23 Jul 2020 11:32 AM

RJD members, led by senior leader Rabri Devi protest in Patna on Sunday. (Twitter/RJD)

RJD launches utensil banging campaign against Amit Shah's rally

The RJD's political campaign, meant to make a point to Amit Shah, is called 'Thali Bajao'

07 Jun 2020 5:35 PM

Bihar govt will bear all travel expenditure of migrants, students: Nitish Kumar

Congress also offered to bear the cost of travel fare of migrants who are willing to return home from different states through train

04 May 2020 8:48 PM

With support from his allies - the Congress and the RJD - Soren, who had been the face of the coalition, stormed to power, as his party alone won 30 Assembly seats, its highest tally ever. (Photo: File)

Hemant Soren, father's second choice as heir, becomes Jharkhand CM again

This will be Soren's second stint as the chief minister of the tribal state.

29 Dec 2019 4:00 PM

The message of Lalu Prasad, who is in Ranchi serving sentences in fodder scam cases, was relayed by his younger son and heir-apparent Tejashwi Yadav, who met his ailing father at a hospital in the Jharkhand capital where the former Bihar Chief Minister has been admitted on health grounds. (Photo: File)

Work four times harder than you did in J'khand: Tejashwi shares Lalu's message to RJD

Tejashwi also expressed surprise over reports that Lalu Prasad was likely to seek parole and attend swearing-in ceremony of CM-elect Soren.

26 Dec 2019 9:08 AM

'What happened in Hyderabad will act as a deterrent against criminals ... we welcome this. In Bihar too, incidents of crimes against women is rising. The state government here is lax and doing nothing,' former Chief Minister Rabri Devi wrote on Twitter. (Photo: File | ANI)

Bihar politicos come out with varied responses in Hyderabad encounter

Discordant voices emerged from the main opposition RJD.

06 Dec 2019 4:03 PM

'In the last 5 years, Chief Minister Raghubar Das has put Jharkhand on the path of development. What have Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha done for the benefit of the poor? Rs 1,000 crore scams took place during their government,' Shah said. (Photo: ANI)

'What have Cong, JMM done for poor?,' Amit Shah at J'khand rally

Shah addressed issues like, Ayodhya verdict, Article 370, budget in Jharkhand in the rally.

21 Nov 2019 3:40 PM

'Congress and the RJD are not hearing our demands. We have told them to make the coordination committee during the Lok Sabha election so that decisions can be taken with the consent of all the parties. But both RJD and NCP are taking decisions independently and are imposing on us, which is why we thought it is better to leave the alliance,' he said while speaking to media in Patna. (Photo: ANI)

Jitan Manjhi breaks alliance with Cong, RJD; HAM to contest alone in Bihar, J'khand polls

Manjhi served as Bihar chief minister from May 2014 to February 2015.

08 Nov 2019 6:29 PM

"Feeling tired. The fatigue is more of the mind than the body. Want to write a memoir but unable to do even that..Hence taking a holiday from whatever role I had been playing in the RJD", the 76-year-old Tiwary said in a message he shared on social media. (Photo: File)

RJD's top leader goes on sabbatical, complains of 'mental fatigue'

Shivanand Tiwary, RJD's national VP, announced on social media that he was taking a holiday from the role he had been playing in the party.

23 Oct 2019 11:08 AM

The deceased has been identified as Chandan Kumar, brother of RJD leader, Satyendra Kumar (aka Bablu Yadav). Kumar is the RJD, general secretary, Panchayati Raj cell. (Photo: ANI)

Bihar: Brother of RJD leader shot dead in Nalanda

The incident took place in Biabani village. As per Police, Chandan was shot in the chest.

07 Oct 2019 3:45 PM

On Thursday, he was spotted in Haryana's Rewari, where he had gone to accompany his brother-in-law Chiranjeevi Rao as he filed his nomination as a Congress candidate. (Photo: Screengrab)

Missing again from Patna, Tejashwi cheers for sister’s husband in Haryana

Tejashwi Yadav, son of jailed RJD chief Lalu Yadav and leader of the opposition, has once again been missing in action.

04 Oct 2019 9:56 AM

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday said Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi is on the side of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party and that is why BJP does not have any face for the Assembly polls. (Photo: File)

Sushil Modi is not in BJP but on side of Nitish Kumar's party: Tejashwi Yadav

Hitting out at Nitish, the RJD leader said if he was batting so well then why he asked for votes in the name of PM Modi instead of his work.

12 Sep 2019 9:24 AM

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad is the latest example. This 71-year-old leader has so far spent 17 months out of 19 in hospital and still has not recovered. (Photo: File)

Hospital is new jail: Lalu Prasad Yadav spends 17 months out of 19 for treatment

Though Prasad has been suffering from many diseases, the primary concern is his ‘Type 2’ diabetes and hypertension.

28 Jul 2019 3:29 PM

Jharkhand HC grants bail to Lalu Yadav in fodder scam case

The Rashtriya Janata Dal chief has been requesting for bail and all of his bail pleas have been rejected until now.

12 Jul 2019 2:55 PM

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