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| Nitish asks Sibal to reconsider new criterion for IIT-JEE | 20-OCT-09 |
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| Asking union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to reconsider his move to change the existing eligibility criteria for the IIT joint entrance examination, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the new proposal will discriminate against students with poor socio-economic status. |
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| Bihar CM condemns IIT move; CABE taken aback | 20-OCT-09 |
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| The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) whichapproved several reforms suggested by the HRD ministry only a month earlier, was not consulted on the latest proposal by the latter to raise the qualifying marks in the Class XII Board exams to 80 per cent to appear for IIT entrance examinations. |
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| Congress, NCP bank on farm loan waiver | 06-OCT-09 |
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| At a rally in Rae Bareli, when Sonia Gandhi directed then Union finance minister P Chidambaram to give a loan waiver to farmers, her immediate target must have been the Lok Sabha polls. Five months after winning the general elections, the Congress-NCP alliance’s dream to retain its power in Maharashtra depends heavily on that credit cushion. |
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| Govt declares dolphin national animal | 05-OCT-09 |
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| The Centre has declared dolphins a national aquatic animal in order to save the rare freshwater species from disappearing from the country's aqua map. |
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| Apathy in implementing land reforms led to carnage: CPI | 03-OCT-09 |
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| The CPI today charged that Nitish Kumar government's alleged apathy towards implementing the Land Reforms Commission report was one of the reasons that led to the Khagaria carnage in which 16 people were killed. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Nitish's clouded clout | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Former Revenue and Rural Development Secretary D Bandyopadhyay handed over his seminal work — a report on land reform in Bihar — to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in July. Accepting the copy, the chief minister said in colloquial Hindi: “Mr Bandyopadhyay, if you steal Rs 5,00,000, no one will say a word to you. But if you steal another man’s wife or his land, they will be ready to murder you”. |
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| Khagaria carnage; Paswan asks Nitish to resign | 02-OCT-09 |
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| Blaming the Bihar government for the Khagaria carnage in which 16 backward caste people were killed, LJP President Ramvilas Paswan today demanded that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resign owning moral responsibility for the incident. |
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| He's my George! | 30-SEP-09 |
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| Remember Leila Kabir? The estranged wife of George Fernandes is back to look after him — this has led to a dispute as to who is the authentic spokesperson for him. So far, Jaya Jaitley has been the eyes and ears of the former socialist stormy petrel, issuing statements on his behalf and organising his affairs after his health problems mounted a few years ago. Leila, in a message to close friends and supporters, has said that the column ‘From the pen of George Fernandes’ in the socialist magazine The Other Side should not be taken seriously as it did not reflect her husband’s views. She has said that ‘someone else’ writes the column and it might be used to sour Fernandes’ relationship with the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Leila says that Kumar had very generously accommodated her husband in the Rajya Sabha even after he had been misled into contesting the recent Lok Sabha poll as an independent against the official JD (U) candidate. |
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| Nitish offers free land for AMU campus | 22-SEP-09 |
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| Two days after the Bihar by-elections results were declared, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has offered free land to set up a branch of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in his state. In a letter to varsity vice-chancellor Abdul Aziz, Kumar has written: “You will be glad to know that the government of Bihar has decided to give 100 acres of land, free of cost to AMU for opening its centre in Kishanganj district. |
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| JD(U) base eroded in Bihar by-polls | 18-SEP-09 |
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| Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, riding high so far on planks of development, today suffered a major setback in Assembly by-polls after his party got just four out of the 18 seats where the elections were held. |
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