The move, commencing on 1 August, is projected to benefit 1.67 crore families. The CM also plans to install rooftop solar power plants for domestic consumers over next 3 yrs.
Businessman Gopal Khemka’s murder has rattled Bihar traders. With crime rising and police busy chasing liquor, the Nitish Kumar government faces a reckoning just months before Assembly elections.
Bihar Dy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha has admitted to lapses on part of police. Khemka’s son in complaint to Gandhi Maidan police station, alleged Patna Police response to killing was delayed.
For the BJP, 2025 offers an opportunity to finally fulfil its dream of having its own CM in Bihar. It would only be grateful if PK could repeat what Chirag Paswan did in 2020.
The court set aside RJD legislator Sunil Kumar Singh's 2024 expulsion from the Bihar House. The punishment meted out to Singh for allegedly insulting the CM was 'excessive', it said.
MoS Pankaj Chaudhary's clarification on this came on question by JD(U) MP asking if govt had any proposal to provide special status to Bihar to promote economic growth, industrialisation.
Chief of NDA constituent Hindustani Awam Morcha & son of ex-CM Jitan Ram Majhi, Suman was among 8 ministers sworn into new Nitish cabinet. He resigned from Nitish’s former govt last June.
The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
President of India has honoured 16 BSF personnel with gallantry medals for show of exemplary courage in the 87-hour ‘war’ between India and Pakistan that followed the launch of Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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