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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (Photo: PTI)

RJD rift grows: Some may quit, back Nitish Kumar

Voices against Tejashwi Yadav have been rising after the RJD-led grand alliance suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lok...

17 Oct 2019 1:25 AM IST

Bihar Cabinet-led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has approved a proposal to punish sons and daughters who abandon their elderly parents with a jail term. (Photo: ANI)

Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar calls for meeting on Patna floods sans BJP...

Several areas in Bihar have been underwater for over a week.

14 Oct 2019 8:40 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar speaking to media during Lok Samvad programme at 1 Anne Marg, in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

All is not well between JD-U, BJP?

BJP's absence from Puja event fuels speculations of rift.

10 Oct 2019 6:23 AM IST

Nevertheless, the chief minister flanked by senior political figures like assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and state Congress president and MLC Madan Mohan Jha took to the dais erected for the festivities at the assigned hour and kicked off the ceremony by lighting lamps (Photo: PTI)

At Dussehra event in Patna, no BJP leader shares dais with CM Nitish...

The war of words was seen as a precursor to the aggression with which the BJP might approach the Assembly polls in Bihar...

9 Oct 2019 9:36 AM IST

Bihar Cabinet-led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has approved a proposal to punish sons and daughters who abandon their elderly parents with a jail term. (Photo: ANI)

JD(U)-BJP: Discord behind war of words?

Union minister Giriraj Singh apologised to people in Bihar who are not being able to celebrate Durga Puja due to the...

7 Oct 2019 3:25 AM IST

Janata Dal (United) on Sunday sought clarification from its ally BJP after Union Minister Giriraj Singh alleged mismanagement by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the wake of Patna floods. (Photo: ANI)

JD(U) seeks clarification from BJP after Giriraj Singh blames Nitish...

JD(U) national spokesperson Pavan Verma said that this kind of personalised attack on the Chief Minister are...

6 Oct 2019 1:55 PM IST

Several state-run hospitals including the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, which is one of the largest in Patna, are flooded. (Photo: ANI)

Nitish, BJP engages in blame game over Patna floods

Stung by Singh's latest salvo, leaders of the JD(U) headed by Kumar came out with a barrage of attacks against Singh and...

6 Oct 2019 10:23 AM IST

A file photo of grand alliance partners marching towards Raj Bhawan in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

Rift in five-party grand alliance gives edge to NDA

The RJD had cobbled up an alliance with four political parties with strong EBC, OBC, and minority voter base during the...

6 Oct 2019 1:49 AM IST

Bihar Cabinet-led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has approved a proposal to punish sons and daughters who abandon their elderly parents with a jail term. (Photo: ANI)

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar files nomination for JDU national president's...

Sources said that Kumar will be elected unopposed for the 'second time' to the post of JDU president.

4 Oct 2019 5:04 PM IST

On Thursday, he was spotted in Haryanas 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...

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

4 Oct 2019 9:56 AM IST

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar takes a survey of the flood-hit areas, in Patna, Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Is water in some parts of Patna the only problem we have? asks Nitish...

Calling the floods a natural calamity, Kumar said heavy rain and droughts were realities.

2 Oct 2019 11:49 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Because no immediate polls here? PM shows concern for Bihar not...

A BJP MLA too was of the view that Modi did not care much for the Karnataka victims as much as he did for those...

2 Oct 2019 11:24 AM IST