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The Latest Breaking News from Nitish Kumar

Learn to enjoy your drink on the sly, like 'bada sahibs': Manjhi's advice to poor in dry Bihar

The sale and consumption of liquor has been completely banned in Bihar since April 2016

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar visits ailing Lalu Prasad at Patna hospital

Bihar CM meets RJD leader Lalu Prasad before he is taken to Delhi by air ambulance for further treatment

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Droupadi Murmu meets NDA lawmakers in Bihar to seek support

State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal said it was heartening to note that a Santhali Adivasi woman was set to become the President of the country

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Former Bihar minister Narendra Singh dies at 75

A socialist stalwart of the JP movement, he served as agriculture minister in Nitish Kumar’s cabinet till 2014

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Tejashwi makes fresh bid to fish in NDA's troubled waters

The BJP was obviously flabbergasted by the scale and intensity of the protests against Agnipath scheme.

The Hindu

Thin attendance in Bihar assembly triggers fresh speculations of BJP-JD(U) rift

A “boycott” of the remaining part of the monsoon session was announced during the lunch hour by the leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav

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Why Nitish Kumar is counting on a caste count in Bihar

His electoral stock vis-a-vis the BJP is dwindling — the enumeration exercise could help him recover political capital

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Morning Digest | Uddhav Thackeray fights to keep control over Shiv Sena; Nitish Kumar affirms support for NDA’s Presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu, and more

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Nitish Kumar to support NDA Presidential candidate

Droupadi Murmu’s victory is a foregone conclusion, says JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh

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Morning Digest | Droupadi Murmu is NDA’s presidential pick; Uddhav govt. wobbles as Sena rebels camp in Surat, and more

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With Yashwant Sinha on board, the Opposition hopes to bring Nitish Kumar to tilt scales in presidential polls

All eyes on Nitish who in 2012, while he was in NDA, voted for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee and, in 2017 while he was in alliance with RJD, voted for Ramnath Kovind

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Bihar: 17 killed due to lightning, thunderstorm; CM announces Rs 4 lakh ex-gratia

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday expressed grief over the death of 17 persons in lightning and thunderstorm and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh for the family members of each of the victims. Full story on Dynamite News:

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17 die as lightning strikes in Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar expresses grief

An ex-gratia of ₹4 lakh has also been announced for the next of the kin of each deceased

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BJP in Bihar accuses State administration for targeted vandalism

Ally JD(U) retorts asking why the State administrations in BJP-ruled states like Madhya Pradesh and Haryana do not stop anti-Agnipath protestors there and that it does not need BJP’s advice.

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Nobody can change history, says Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

History is history, he said when a journalist asked for his comments on Amit Shah’s remark about revisiting history books

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After being denied Rajya Sabha seat, Union Minister R.C.P. Singh loses bungalow in Patna

It has now been allotted to the State’s Chief Secretary Amir Subhani

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BJP’s Giriraj Singh favours anti-conversion law, Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha seeks ‘global minority’ status for Hindus

The BJP leader, who is also considered a detractor of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, expressed his views days after the latter had ruled out the need for any such legislation in the State

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No need for any anti-conversion law in Bihar: Nitish

Alliance partner BJP has been raising the demand for sometime

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BJP announces candidates for Bihar council polls

The names of Anil Sharma and Hari Sahni were announced at the party’s national headquarters in Delhi

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No need for anti-conversion law in Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar

BJP hardliners such as Union minister Giriraj Singh have been stressing on the need for an anti-conversion law

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Manjhi complains of 'suffocation' in NDA

He regrets having resigned as Bihar CM

The Hindu

Bihar caste count | Rohingya, ‘people from Bangladesh’ should not undertake exercise, says State BJP chief

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar says ‘pata nahi’ (he is not aware)

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Bihar: State govt to take suggestions on caste-based census from all political parties, says CM Nitish Kumar

Bihar government on Thursday approved a caste-based census in the state. The government has allocated Rs 500 crore for the survey. The exercise will be completed by February next year. Full story on Dynamite News:

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The Bihar government’s caste-count

Why has the State BJP backed the exercise, while the Centre is opposed to a caste census?

The Hindu

Caste-based census to be held in Bihar

All-party meeting on the caste census chaired by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar unanimously gives nod to start the mega exercise

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