PATNA: Political strategist-turned activist Prashant Kishor has said that the people of Bihar are fed up with the JD(U), BJP and RJD and on October 2, they will float a new political party to end this ‘vicious cycle’. Prashant Kishor was speaking in Patna after a function of the ‘Jan Suraaj’ campaign he had launched…
PATNA: Bihar Police have registered a case in connection with an email threatening to blow up the chief minister‘s office here, a senior officer said. According to an FIR registered on the basis of the statement of Sachivalaya Police Station SHO Sanjeev Kumar, the email was sent to the CMO on July 16.The sender of…
PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Saturday laid the foundation stone for a Rs 1,600-crore cement grinding unit of Ambuja Concrete North Private Limited, a subsidiary of Gautam Adani‘s Ambuja Cement Limited (ACL), at Warisaliganj industrial area in Bihar’s Nawada.“The investment is a testament to Bihar’s growth potential and our commitment to fostering sustainable development for…
PATNA: A six-year-old pre-primary student of a Bihar school carried his father’s licensed pistol to class Wednesday and ended up “mistakenly” pulling the trigger on a 10-year-old boy inside a classroom. The bullet struck the Class III student’s left palm.Police said the owner of the gun, a guard at the same school in Supaul district’s…
NEW DELHI: A five-year-old nursery student brought a handgun to school and opened fire on a classmate, injuring a Class 3 student. The incident took place on Wednesday, with the ten-year-old victim sustaining an injury to his arm.According to Superintendent of Police Shaishav Yadav, “The student fired at a 10-year-old boy, who studies in the…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday reacted to opposition allegations that Bihar and Andhra Pradesh were preferred over other states in the Union Budget 2024, terming them ‘outragous’ in Rajya Sabha. “In every Budget, you don’t get an opportunity to name every state of this country. The Cabinet had taken a decision…
Dressed in an off-white Mangalagiri sari with a purple-golden border, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented her seventh consecutive Union Budget, reading from a tablet PC that was wrapped in the red-coloured ‘bahi-khata’ style pouch she has used for all her Budget speeches in place of the leather briefcase — called ‘budget’ from the…
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka government’s quota bill to facilitate reservation for locals in private jobs has been put on hold after massive uproar.The decision by the Siddaramaiah government came after stakeholders expressed disappointment and multiple concerns over the outcome which would pan out following the bill’s implementation.Karnataka State Employment of Local Industries Factories Establishment Act…
PATNA: Vikassheel Insaan Party chief Mukesh Sahani‘s father was found murdered Tuesday in their ancestral village home in Bihar‘s Darbhanga. The body of 70-year-old Jitan Sahani, who lived alone, was discovered by a man delivering flowers around 6.30 am. The visitor reported the rear door broken and household items scattered, leading to the discovery of…
NAWADA/VADODARA: Bihar police arrested three youths on Monday after a video purportedly showing them waving a Palestinian flag ahead of a Muharram procession in Nawada went viral, while police in Gujarat questioned two minor boys in Savli near Vadodara in a similar case from Sunday.The Bihar youths were charged with attempting to disturb communal harmony…
