Minority view in Bihar BJP is that JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar's return to NDA might help party win 28-30 Lok Sabha seats in the state & 'deliver death blow to INDIA bloc'.
As then Bihar Chief Minister, Yadav had halted LK Advani's Ram Rath Yatra in 1990, by getting the BJP leader arrested in Bihar before he could reach Ayodhya.
Congress says it didn't invite CM for event where Lalu was chief guest. Nitish's absence hints at JD(U)'s cooling ties with party that needs RJD in Bihar in absence of its own vote-bank.
Commenting on ‘President of Bharat’ invites for G20 dinner, RJD chief asks if Modi will remove ‘India’ from currency notes too, adds INDIA bloc to finalise seat-sharing 'at state level'.
The agency is probing former Bihar chief minister and Union Railways minister Lalu Parasad Yadav, his family for alleged gift of land parcels to the Yadav family in lieu of jobs.
Allegations pertain to period between 2004 & 2009, when RJD chief was railway minister. Probe agencies claim that there were irregularities in Group D railway appointments.
CBI has accused the RJD supremo, his wife, 2 daughters in the case where railway land was allegedly procured at dirt cheap prices in lieu of handing out jobs.
Yadav, who died Thursday, 1st became Lok Sabha MP at 27 after winning bypoll from Jabalpur. He had major disagreements with ex-JP Movement comrades Nitish & Lalu in later years.
The RJD president is serving sentences in a few fodder scam cases. Lalu, his son & Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, among others, are named in the current probe.
How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.
Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.
Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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