Category: Bihar, India

BJP protests against Bihar minister’s remarks

Patna, March 4 – Bihar’s opposition BJP took to the streets on Saturday and organised sit-ins across Bihar against Congress minister Abdul Jalil Mastan, demanding his dismissal for asking people to throw shoes at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph. Leader of Opposition Prem Kumar said the BJP will continue to protest against Mastan and would intensify it in the coming days to put pressure on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to sack the Excise and Prohibition Minister.

Order CBI probe into test paper leak: Bihar opposition

Patna, Feb 27 – The issue of Bihar Staff Selection Commission question paper leak on Monday rocked the state assembly, with opposition BJP and its allies demanding a CBI probe due to alleged involvement of two politicians of the ruling Grand Alliance. The state government should recommend a CBI probe into the leak as the involvement of two leaders of the ruling dispensation has been reported, Leader of Opposition Prem Kumar said in the assembly.

Fifth Columnist : High commands are passe

There was a time, in the reasonably distant past, or more specifically the 1950s, when India’s first prime minister thought it beneath his dignity to campaign for assembly elections. Such was Jawaharlal Nehru’s immense popularity and so widespread was peoples’ affections for him that assembly elections were best left to powerful Congress satraps, who managed to handle things in their bailiwick with consummate ease – Govind Ballabh Pant in UP, KB Sahay and others in Bihar, Bidhan Chandra Roy in Bengal, Pratap Singh Kairon in Punjab and others who saw no good reason for the prime minister of the country to come campaigning for what were purely local elections, aimed to put into place a local government.

Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan discharged from hospital

Union Minister and LJP president Ramvilas Paswan, who was admitted to the ICU of a hospital after he complained of breathlessness, has been discharged today. “Paswan has been discharged from the hospital after hisfull recovery,” Doctor Pramod Kumar, head of Cardiology unitof PARAS HMRI hospital, where the minister was admitted, said.

Bihar

City parks and major hotspots brimmed with revellers on Sunday as people ventured out with family members, friends and relatives to soak in the festive spirit and usher in… Police claimed to have busted a biker gang, including its kingpin Manish Malik, following the arrest of five people from the Patna College area on Sunday. Several… The stage is all set for the 34th Kalchakra puja to begin with the Dalai Lama conducting ritual preparations at Kalchakra ground on Monday.

Bihar

A Class IX student of DAV Public School Walmi Complex had to get medical attention after a schoolteacher allegedly beat him up inside the school on Tuesday. Students of Patna Women’s College today organised pre-Christmas events to spread festive cheer among the transgender and rickshaw-puller communities as part of an outreach… The ongoing strike by employees of the Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation has completely paralysed the state-run corporation’s hotels across the state.

Demonetization will meet fate of Congress’ ‘Nasbandi’: Lalu Prasad Yadav

RJD president Lalu Prasad on Saturday said demonetization would meet the fate of ‘Nasbandi’ of the Congress rule and announced protest across Bihar on December 28. During a day-long meeting of RJD MPs, ministers, legislators and office-bearers, Prasad and other leaders of the party highlighted people’s woes following the scrapping of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes. Addressing the RJD leaders, Prasad criticised the move and said, “It will meet the fate of ‘nasbandi’ during the Congress rule in the past.”