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RJD workers meet in show of unity

With its charismatic supremo and main crowd-puller Lalu Prasad Yadav convicted for corruption and away in jail in Ranchi beginning a five-year prison term, the RJD on Friday held its first workers’ meeting after the shock, trying to put up a show of unity ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2014.

04 Oct 2013 11:35 PM

Lalu gets 5-yr jail, out of polls 11 yrs

In one of the most widely-awaited judicial pronouncements in recent times, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was on Thursday sentenced to five years in jail and fined `25 lakh in a 17-year-old case of the `950-crore fodder scam, becoming one of three sitting MPs set to lose their seats in three days.

04 Oct 2013 12:01 AM

Rift in RJD over Rabri becoming acting chief

After a kneejerk bid to install jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi temporarily as the party’s national president, the party’s leaders on Tuesday appeared to

02 Oct 2013 11:56 AM

Prisoner No. 3312 seeks cable TV in ‘VVIP cell’

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Prisoner No.

02 Oct 2013 9:34 AM

Lalu convicted in fodder case, jailed, to lose seat

In a momentous verdict for Indian politics and the future of one of the nation’s top leaders, Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav was on Monday convicted and sent to jail by a special CBI

01 Oct 2013 9:35 AM

Wife, son confine man for 9 years

In a shocking instance of the extreme lengths some people can go to for availing themselves of the government’s welfare measures, a woman in Bihar kept her husband in confinement for nine years, havin

29 Sep 2013 11:43 AM

Nitish hails report; BJP cries betrayal

While Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday hailed the Raghuram Rajan committee’s report on backwardness of states, saying it would help Bihar get more Central aid, the main Opposition BJP att

27 Sep 2013 12:09 PM

Bihar BJP ex-mantris to be evicted

With Bihar’s former BJP ministers continuing to be adamant on not vacating their spacious ministerial bungalows till fresh accommodation was provided, the JD(U) government is considering plans to forcibly evict them even at the risk of another showdown with the saffron party.

28 Aug 2013 11:41 PM

Mystery shrouds insecticide deaths

With the forensic report on samples collected from a government primary school in Bihar, where 23 children died after consuming insecticide-laced midday meals, yet to come, it remained unknown, four d

20 Jul 2013 1:37 PM

Modi to kick off campaign from Nitish’s home turf

BJP stalwart and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is likely to begin his national campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls formally from his Bihar counterpart and JD(U) strongman Nitish Kumar’s home

20 Jul 2013 1:31 PM

Lalu: Will make Bihar shine like railways

Vowing to make Bihar shine as brightly as he made Indian Railways shine when he was a Union minister, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday urged the state’s people to vote for his party in the 201

14 Feb 2013 1:24 PM

Don visits home on jail-to-court trip

The rule of law in Bihar turned into a travesty once again when a jailed criminal and brother of a tainted MLA of the ruling JD(U) was allowed to visit his home while being taken from the jail to a co

07 Dec 2012 4:33 PM

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