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Topic: Bihar CM

CM Nitish Kumar announces free power up to 125 units ahead of Bihar elections

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.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) announces candidates for all 16 Lok Sabha seats

Seats where sitting MPs have been dropped are Sitamarhi and Siwan. Legislative council chairman Devesh Chandra Thakur will be JD(U) candidate from Sitamarhi & Vijay Laxmi Kushwaha from Siwan.

Nitish-led NDA govt wins floor test in Bihar assembly after Opposition walks out

The JD(U) national president won the support of 129 MLAs in the 243-seat assembly, after the Opposition walked out of the House. The required number was 122.

Bihar floor test soon, JD(U)-BJP confident of victory

The previous government or Mahagathbandhan of the JD(U), RJD, Congress & Left parties fell because of Nitish Kumar’s latest volte face.

‘Census done at Centre’s level, we can’t do that’: CM Nitish Kumar on Bihar caste-based survey

JDU leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary slammed the central government for filing an affidavit in the SC against Bihar’s government decision to conduct caste-based census in the state.

Centre has only ‘fooled’ Bihar over special package, says Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav

Yadav also told reporters that Union Budget 2023 was ‘small' & lacked 'any detailing.’

Dramatic Tuesday in Bihar as Nitish Kumar leaves BJP again; stakes claim to new govt with RJD

State BJP says Kumar betrayed the party and people of Bihar; SP chief Akhilesh Yadav feels the resignation sends out a ‘BJP Bhagaon’ message to citizens.

Bihar CM and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar to begin virtual campaigning from Monday

Nitish will campaign in 11 constituencies Monday evening, followed by 11 Tuesday morning & 13 that evening. He will start travelling for campaigning Wednesday.

People want a PM who can respond to the enemy in its language: BJP leader Sushil Modi

Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi says PM Narendra Modi is the symbol of both mandal and kamandal and that people see him as one of them.

One nation, one poll a good idea but not implementable at present: Nitish Kumar

The Bihar CM has been advocating for simultaneous polls for state assemblies and Lok Sabha for some time. 

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.