Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu, who has been hospitalised with pneumonia, is still critical but is responding to treatment. The bacterial infection in the 95-year-old leader was marginally down, doctors attending to him said Wednesday.
The former West Bengal chief minister, who is in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) on ventilation support, was given [...]
Patna, Dec 29 (IANS) The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Tuesday called for a state-wide shutdown in Bihar Jan 28 to protest hunger deaths, poverty and rising prices in Bihar during the last four years of the Nitish Kumar-led government.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad gave the shutdown call after a meeting of the party’s MPs, legislators, leaders [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Calling for greater bilateral trade and investment, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Tuesday pitched for introducing superfast bullet trains in India.
‘Since its inception (in Japan), there has been no accidents. We will like to see this technology being used in India,’ Hatoyama said here.
The proposal is under discussion, official [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) chief Babulal Marandi is expected to arrive in the capital Friday to meet Congress leaders and discuss the possibility of forming the next government in Jharkhand.
The Congress and JVM-P have together emerged as the single largest formation winning 25 seats in the 81-member Jharkhand assembly. However, [...]
Ranchi, Dec 23 (IANS) Jharkhand was Wednesday headed towards a hung assembly with indications that no political group or combine was likely to get a majority in the 81-member house.
In trends available for the 81 seats, for which counting was on, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was ahead in 24 seats Wednesday while the [...]
Ranchi, Dec 16 (IANS) Fearing a hung assembly, Jharkhand’s political parties have begun to woo fresh allies in order to form a new government.
Most political pundits believe that no single party or pre-poll alliance is likely to get a majority in the 81-member legislature.
So even as they take on one another in the ongoing assembly [...]
Ranchi, Dec 10 (IANS) A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Thursday convicted 48 people in a multi-million fodder scam case related to the fraudulent withdrawal of crores of Rupees from the Ranchi treasury on the basis of fake bills.
Special CBI court of S.K Dubey pronounced the judgment in the RC 44 A/96 case [...]
Ranchi, Dec 4 (IANS) Rajnath Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad — Jharkhand saw several high-profile party leaders hit the campaign trail Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh campaigned at four places that go to polls in the third phase of assembly elections Dec 8. He addressed public meetings at Jamua, Dhanwar, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former railway minister Lalu Prasad was seen in parliament Thursday limping and walking with the help of a stick.
The Bihar leader, who is out of power both at the centre and state, said he suffered a minor fracture after a stage collapsed at Arrah [...]
Patna, Nov 25 (IANS) A woman who gave birth in a running train in Bihar is so inspired by the former chief minister and railway minister Lalu Prasad that she named her newborn son after the politician.
Gayatri Devi, in her mid 20s, gave birth to a boy Tuesday in Lohit Express at Desari railway [...]
Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) Jharkhand’s political parties are locked in a verbal war over disgraced former chief minister Madhu Koda.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) have launched an aggressive campaign that the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) were also to blame for Koda’s alleged acts of corruption.
The BJP and [...]
Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) He may be hobbling on a fractured leg but Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad is campaigning energetically in the run-up to the Jharkhand assembly polls, wooing voters and ensuring that the break with the Congress does not affect his party’s electoral chances.
The indefatigable Lalu Prasad is addressing three to [...]
Patna, Nov 11 (IANS) It is official now. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has made it clear that his party will not align with former ally Congress for the state assembly polls next year.
The RJD and its ally Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJP) would go without the Congress in the assembly polls. ‘The [...]
New Delhi, Nov 5 (ANI): A diary belonging to former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda shows names of various politicians with monetary transactions with them.
A case was registered against Koda and eight others by the Enforcement Directorate of IT department on [...]
Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which is contesting the Jharkhand assembly polls along with the Left parties, released the first list of 26 candidates Thursday.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad, releasing the list of candidates, said: ‘We will release the second and third lists soon.’
He said the RJD was contesting the Jharkhand polls [...]
Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) In an obvious attack on former ally the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has accused national level parties of trying to marginalise regional outfits to deny power to the deprived.
‘Delhi listens only to people with power. As small and regional parties like the RJD performed badly in the [...]
Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has virtually hit out at former ally the Congress, saying national level parties were trying to marginalise regional otufits to deny power to the vulnerable and deprived sections of society.
‘Delhi listens only to people with power. As small and regional parties like the RJD [...]
Patna, Oct 24 (IANS) It is Chhath puja time and like millions of people in Bihar, the politicians were also busy Saturday performing the rituals to seek divine blessings, with an eye on the state assembly polls due next year.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his political rivals Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, his wife [...]
Patna, Oct 19 (IANS) The Congress will fight the 2010 Bihar assembly elections on its own and not align with any one, state party in-charge Jagdish Tytler said here Monday.
Tytler also said that party president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi will tour the state in the coming months to ‘expose’ the Nitish Kumar [...]
Patna, Oct 16 (IANS) Firecrackers named after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his political rival and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad and his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi, and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan are selling briskly in Bihar ahead of Diwali.
From Nitish bombs, Nitish rockets to Lalu bombs, engines [...]
Ranchi, Sep 22 (IANS) Major political parties in Jharkhand have announced they would go it alone in the upcoming assembly elections in what promises to be a neck-and-neck contest.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prjatantrik (JVM-P) have announced they would fight all the 81 seats on their [...]
Patna, Sept 20 (ANI): The activists of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) here celebrated the party’s good show in the by-election for 18 legislative assembly seats.
The RJD-Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) won eight seats in the by-election for 18 legislative assembly seats, a major set back to ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U).
The JD (U) bagged three [...]
Within four months of the Congress’s success in the parliamentary polls, the party has been rudely jolted in the latest round of assembly by-elections.
After a severe drubbing in Gujarat, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wrested five seats from the Congress along with one in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress lost two seats – Okhla and [...]
New Delhi, Sep 18 (ANI): Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has said an external agency would probe allegations of graft during her predecessor’s tenure.
Lawmakers belonging to Bihar’s Janata Dal (United) had alleged that that during the tenure of former Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, [...]
Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) In a major setback to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the opposition alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Thursday bagged nine seats in bye-elections for 18 assembly seats in the state. The ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine won just five.
The JD-U won three [...]
Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) In a major setback to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the opposition alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Thursday bagged eight seats in by-elections for 18 assembly seats in the state.
The ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) won three seats (Triveniganj, Bagha and Dhoraiya) and its ally the [...]
Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) In a major setback to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and its ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Thursday won eight seats in by-elections for 18 assembly seats in the state.
The ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) won two seats (Triveniganj and Bagha) and its ally the Bharatiya [...]
Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) In a major setback to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal and its ally Lok Janshakti Party have taken a clear lead on nine seats in the by-elections to 18 assembly constituencies in the state, counting for which was underway Thursday.
The RJD and LJP are reported to [...]
Patna, Sep 17 (IANS) Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has taken a clear lead on five seats in the by-elections to 18 assembly constituencies in the state, counting for which was underway Thursday.
According to early trends, the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal was leading on three seats and its ally Lok Janshakti Party was ahead in [...]
