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NEW DELHI: Hitting back at Nitish Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said, “Rather than trying to split the Janata Dal (United) and weaken you, the BJP has made you in politics what you are.” Former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that at every available opportunity, the BJP had helped Kumar in […]

NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and submitted his resignation to the governor on Tuesday. “I’ve resigned. Everyone in the party wanted to move out of the NDA. “The Governor has accepted the resignation,” Kumar said in Patna. The BJP called this a betrayal of the 2020 […]

NEW DELHI: Even as Bihar is in the throes of an utter political embroglio, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has chosen to stay silent. JD (U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called a meeting of all his party MPs and MLAs at his residence in Patna on Tuesday amid a rift with […]

NEW DELHI: Amid the political turmoil in Bihar, BJP leader and a minister in the state government Shahnawaz Hussain shared the stage with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday. On National Handloom Day, an event was organised by the industries department in Patna. Kumar graced the occasion as the chief guest. Two Bihar deputy […]

NEW DELHI: Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu will leave behind a rich legacy in office, said Prime minister Narendra Modi at the farewell function of the vice-president at GMC Balayogi Auditorium in Parliament today. The Prime Minister said that the Vice-President’s quality of always staying active and engaged, will keep him connected with the activities of […]

NEW DELHI: At the 7th General Council meeting of the NITI Aayog, if there was great consensus about one issue, it was the National Education Policy (NEP), said NITI Aayog in the press conference after the meeting. “If there is one thing about which there was great consensus, it was on the implementation of the […]

NEW DELHI: The collective efforts of all the states and the spirit of cooperative federalism got us through the COVID-19 pandemic, said Prime minister Narendra Modi at the 7th NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting in Delhi on Sunday. “Every State played a crucial role according to its strength and contributed to India’s fight against COVID. […]

NEW DELHI: In a clear indication that all is not well between National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United), Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar skipped the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog chaired by Prime minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Sunday. Kumar, instead, participated in a government programme […]

  NEW DELHI: With more than with 72 per cent votes, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Vice-Presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar marched to victory over Opposition’s candidate Margaret Alva who secured 182 votes. Out of the 725 votes polled, Dhankhar received 528 votes. The polling for the vice-presidential election had closed at 5 pm and counting started […]

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah today termed Congress’ “aggressive protest in black dress” as a subtle message that the party opposes the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. “By holding an aggressive protest today in black clothes, Congress has given out a subtle message that they oppose the shilanyas in Ayodhya and the […]