JD(U) Rajya Sabha member and the party’s national spokesman Shivanand Tiwary has decided to boycott US President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of both Houses of the Parliament on Monday.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s indelible image as an “anti-development politician” in Bihar before his years as the railway minister is being optimally used by chief minister Nitish Kumar and top BJP l

After failing to prove to be a good relative to his brother-in-law Lalu Prasad Yadav and sister Rabri Devi, former RJD MP Subhash Yadav is fighting a lone battle as an Independent candidate in Bihar’s

Congress youth icon Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday robustly answered back National Democratic Alliance leaders’ recent personal attacks on him in his most passionate and personal speeches yet in three crowded campaign meetings in Bihar, seeking to overturn the NDA’s charges that he was a political greenhorn.

With corruption being widely perceived as a major stigma in Bihar’s NDA regime despite the signs of development, chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Tuesday told voters that the next big task on his mind was to seize corrupt people’s properties and open schools there.

Fear prevailed in many areas during Bihar’s fourth phase of Assembly polls on Monday due to bomb blasts and the Maoists’ diktat for poll boycott, but an average 51 per cent voting was registered in the eight south-eastern and central districts where polling was conducted for 42 constituencies.

Stung by the Congress party’s continuing frontal attacks on his government, Bihar chief minister and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Monday advised Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to first prove his political mettle by becoming chief minister of a state before becoming India’s Prime Minister.

The fourth phase of Assembly polls in Bihar being held on Monday for 42 seats in the state’s south-eastern and central parts are going to be a litmus test for the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance g

Congress general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday extolled Bihar’s people for their industriousness as he heightened his attacks on the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in the state, saying Biharis were shining everywhere but Bihar was not progressing despite the state government’s hype.

Bihar’s third phase of Assembly polls for 48 seats in six north-western districts on Thursday registered an average 53.65 per cent voter turnout and passed off largely peacefully in areas infamous as the state’s “wild west”. This phase holds crucial significance for Bihar’s ruling NDA, the main Opposition RJD-LJP and also the resurgent Congress.