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.
Rajesh Singh also spoke about jet engine development to power next gen fighters, saying govt is finalising programme with leading international firm to co-develop 120KN jet engine.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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