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Modi wedge drives JD-U, BJP apart

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The stalemate between Bihar’s ruling coalition partners JD(U) and BJP over the desirability of inviting Gujarat chief minister and BJP icon Narendra Modi to campaign in Bihar thickened on Thursday whe

Lalu hits Congress as hard as JD(U)

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav may be still officially with the Congress-led UPA, but his keenness to win back power in poll-bound Bihar and the challenges thrown on his way by the Congress have forced him to attack the grand old party as hard as the ruling JD(U)-BJP combine.

Munda wins trust vote, sets out to pick Cabinet

BJP leader and Jharkhand’s newly-appointed chief minister Arjun Munda sailed through the confidence vote with expected ease on Tuesday, winning by 15 votes in the 81-member state Assembly. The tribal leader is now confronted with the knotty hurdle of choosing ministers from the BJP and the three allies supporting his government.

Munda will seek trust vote today

Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda will seek a trust vote on Tuesday at a makeshift Assembly instead of the Assembly building, whose current state of disrepair due to an unusually prolonged renovation work is an instant metaphor for the misgovernance Jharkhand is known for. The Sri Krishna Institute of Public Administration (SKIPA)

Slain cop Tete’s daughter wants CBI probe into Bihar hostage crisis

Slain Bihar policeman Lucas Tete’s daughter, Anjela Tete, has put her mind and heart to the hostage crisis staged by the Maoists in Lakhiserai, but has failed to join the missing dots in the sensation

Munda had opposed Soren family politics

Arjun Munda, who became Jharkhand’s chief minister for the third time by forging a surprising truce between the BJP and the JMM, has had an extreme love-hate relationship with the JMM and its founder-

Munda sworn in as 8th CM of J’khand, lists priorities

Tribal leader Arjun Munda of the BJP was on Saturday sworn in as Jharkhand’s eighth chief minister in a ceremony attended by a galaxy of senior BJP leaders from across the country and chief ministers of two BJP-ruled states. AJSU leader Sudesh Mahto and JMM leader Hemant Soren also took oath as the two deputy chief ministers.

Nitish, Lalu pick up hammer, tongs

The verbal warfare between the two Bihar stalwarts, CM Nitish Kumar of the JD(U) and Mr Lalu Yadav of the RJD, has escalated to personal attacks.
Mr Yadav was irked by Mr Kumar’s suggestion that the Congress’ “secret” links with the RJD in Bihar was evident from the Lok Sabha seating arrangement. “Does a party w

Lalu, Nitish exchange personal jabs

With RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav describing Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s decision not to himself contest the Assembly polls as an early acceptance of the ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance’s defeat, the verbal warfare between the two Bihar stalwarts has escalated to personal attacks.

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