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TopicBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Topic: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Bihar BJP ex-chief ‘met’ Anand Mohan’s MLA son days before party slammed don-politician’s release

RJD MLA Chetan Anand says MP & former Union minister Radha Mohan Singh met him and 'congratulated' him on his father's possible release.

As PK’s Jan Suraaj yatra meanders through Bihar, 1st electoral success spurs hope of ‘impact in 2025 polls’

Prashant Kishor's outfit tasted electoral success for the first time in the Bihar legislative council bypolls earlier this month. But rivals don't see the outfit as a real threat.

‘Discriminatory’: Activist questions inclusion of ‘transgender’ as category in Bihar caste census, moves HC

Petition submitted in Patna High Court says allocating a code to transgender people alongside caste categories is a violation of their fundamental rights under Constitution.

JD(U) drops K.C. Tyagi, ‘party’s major link to Delhi’, as national general secretary

The Nitish loyalist was replaced by Rajiv Ranjan, an old JD(U) hand and Kurmi leader like the Bihar CM. Ranjan returned to the party fold in January.

Nitish’s ‘if you drink, you’ll die’ remark & alcohol ban will endanger more lives, deepen crisis

With about 15.8 % of Bihar's young men and barely 0.4% of its women consuming alcohol, data shows at least 65 lakh men could be susceptible to the risk of consuming substandard liquor.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar claims Prashant Kishor had asked him to merge JD(U) with Congress

Kumar claimed that Kishor was working for the BJP. The chief minister was responding to Kishor's claim that he spurned a recent request by by Kumar to lead the JD(U).

‘Action will be taken,’ says Nitish Kumar at IAS officer over ‘condom’ remark at schoolgirls

IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bumrah has been slapped with a notice for her 'insensitive' conduct at a state-level workshop organised in collaboration with UNICEF for school girls.

After Bihar developments, BJP wants Chirag Paswan back on team NDA. But he has ‘preconditions’    

BJP wants the LJP (Ram Vilas) to help counter the JD (U) and the RJD. But Chirag Paswan has one ‘condition’ — his uncle Pashupati Paras’s ouster from the NDA.

Nitish runs the ‘Delhi marathon’ & every small party wants to be a ‘big brother’

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‘He did what Aurangzeb didn’t’ — BJP turns up heat on Nitish over Muslim minister entering temple

Political observers feel the BJP, having parted ways with Nitish, is using its ‘tried and tested’ method of polarisation to bring down Bihar’s ruling Mahagathbandhan alliance.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.