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Tejashwi Yadav slams Nitish Kumar govt over NITI Aayog ranking of Bihar

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday slammed CM Nitish Kumar over Bihar's low ranking in NITI Aayog's poverty index baseline report and said that the "double-engine" govt is responsible for this

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's son Nishant five times richer than him

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar owns movable and immovable assets worth Rs 75.36 lakh, while his son Nishant is almost five times richer than him. As per details of assets of the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues uploaded on the Bihar government website on December 31, Kumar has Rs 29,385 in cash and nearly Rs 42,763 deposited in the bank, while his son Nishant has Rs 16,549 in cash and Rs 1.28 crore in Fixed Deposit (FD) or deposits in various banks. Kumar has movable assets worth Rs 16.51 lakh whereas the total value of his immovable assets is around Rs 58.85 lakh. His son owns movable properties worth Rs 1.63 crore and the value of his immovable assets is around Rs 1.98 crore. The chief minister has one residential flat in a cooperative housing society at Dwarka in New Delhi, while his son has agricultural land and residential houses at Kalyan Bigha and Hakikatpur (both in Nalanda district) and Kankarbagh in Patna. As per the declaration, Nishant has agricultural land

Omicron spread: Third Covid-19 wave in Bihar has begun, says Nitish Kumar

He also mooted opening a genome sequencing laboratory in the state

Nitish says don't come to Bihar if you want to drink, CJI questions ban

Nitish Kumar made his statement made during the third programme of his Social Reforms Campaign in Sasaram

Covid: No need of night curfew in Bihar, says CM Nitish Kumar

The situation in Bihar is better than many states right now, says Bihar CM

Prohibition won't be relaxed for those coming to Bihar from outside: Nitish

He also rubbished suggestions that an exception be made on medical grounds for certified alcoholics, asserting that people spoiled their health by drinking and not by being prevented from doing so

Development is meaningless without social reforms: Nitish Kumar

The chief minister aslo declared that there would be no compromise on total prohibition in the state

RJD leader Tejashwi slams Nitish govt for alleged forgery of Covid data

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav slammed the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar for the alleged forgery of data concerning the number of Covid-19 deaths and RT-PCR tests

Good work doesn't get much publicity: Nitish Kumar on CAG criticism

Kumar said a "damaging comment" often gets publicity and the good work ignored

Bihar minister boycotts assembly after his car stopped at gate

Jivesh Kumar, Minister of Labour in the Nitish Kumar government, walked out from the Vidhan Sabha after sharing his ordeal with Speaker Vijay Sinha

Liquor bottles on Bihar Assembly premises: Admin's failure, says Tejashwi

After empty liquor bottles were found on the premises of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav on Wed said that the incident reveals failure of the administration.

Inviting elected representatives at Bihar govt events compulsory: Nitish

Kumar told the assembly that district officials and state government departments have already been issued instructions in this regard

Trouble-engine govt in Bihar instead of double-engine: Tejashwi Yadav

The 'double-engine government' expression was first used by the BJP as it appealed to people to vote for the party

Bihar CM asks health officials to be on guard against new Covid variant

He called for keeping a close watch on those coming to the state from abroad and quick testing of samples if anybody presented symptoms

NITI Aayog's unflattering report vexes Nitish Kumar govt in Bihar

The Nitish Kumar govt in Bihar has reacted with dismay to the Niti Aayog report on poverty index, which places the state among the bottom-ranking ones

Liquor ban in Bihar to continue, will not roll back, says CM Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the liquor ban will continue in the state and there is no question of rolling back prohibition

Lalu asks Nitish Kumar to roll back liquor prohibition law in Bihar

Following a series of raids on hotels and banquet halls to catch the liquor ban violators, RJP president Lalu Prasad on Monday asked chief minister Nitish Kumar to withdraw the liquor prohibition law.

All-party meeting soon to decide on caste-based census in Bihar: Nitish

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that an all-party meeting would be convened soon to take a decision on conducting a caste-based census in the state. Talking to reporters here, Kumar said that he had clarified in the past that the option of carrying out a state-specific census exercise is open. "We (all party) will soon take up the matter. An all-party meeting will be called to arrive at a unanimous decision on the exercise. Whatever be the decision, it will have to be a unanimous one, he underlined. The Centre had in September told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that caste census of Backward Classes is administratively difficult and cumbersome and excluding such information from the purview of the exercise is a ''conscious policy decision''. Earlier, Kumar, as the leader of an all-party delegation from Bihar, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press for inclusion of OBCs in caste census. Asked about his reaction to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's latest remark that

Tejashwi Yadav hits out at CM Nitish Kumar over Madhubani ADJ assault

Opposition leader in Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on the alleged incident of two police officers physically assaulting the ADJ in Madhubani

Bihar govt silent over JDU leader's role in journalist's murder: Tejashwi

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav alleged that no action has been taken against JDU leader Leshi Singh even after victim's family 'clearly accused' leader for murder of a journalist in Purnia