Merger ticket maths

Patna, April 11: Dissident JDU MLA from Islampur Rajiv Ranjan today said 57 sitting JDU MLAs would be denied tickets in the event of merger taking its final shape.

At present, JDU has 111 MLAs while RJD has 24. Ranjan gave the logic that RJD chief Lalu Prasad would put a condition that those MLAs should not be given tickets where the JDU has lost in the Assembly segment during the Lok Sabha polls.

Explosives

Gaya: Personnel of the 159 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force on Saturday recovered two improvised explosive devices weighing 10kg and 15kg planted under a culvert near Baltharwa and defused them.

Autocracy

Patna: Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president and MLC Ramchandra Bharti on Saturday demanded that chief minister Nitish Kumar stop private schools' autocratic way of functioning.

Sushil jab

Patna: BJP leader Suhsil Kumar Modi on Saturday criticised chief minister Nitish Kumar for becoming the mentor of RJD's strongmen.

Water scheme

Patna: A dharna was organised on Saturday in front of Hindi Sahitya Sammelan in Kadamkuan and Mithapur pump house in Narendra Bharti Mandal area under the leadership of Bankipore MLA Nitin Navin to protest against lack of pure drinking water and the government's decision to close down Patna water supply scheme.

Killer arrest

Lucknow (PTI): UP police's special task force and Bihar police on Saturday nabbed a contract killer, Vikas Pal Singh alias Pehalwan, from Gorakhpur alleged to be behind the murder of a Siwan politician.

Bar polls

Chhapra: Advocates Sri Ram Singh and Ravi Ranjan Prasad Singh were elected president and general secretary, respectively, of the Chhapra Bar Association.

Sri Ram defeated his nearest rival by 20 votes while Ravi sailed through by a margin of 179 votes against his nearest rival.

Tribute

Patna: Food and consumer protection minister Shyam Rajak on Saturday garlanded the portrait of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule on his birth anniversary.

CBSE course

Patna: Bishop Scott Girls' School, Jaganpura, on Saturday hosted an induction course for principals organised by the CBSE. The programme was attended by more than hundred schools across Bihar.

Tourney

Patna: Bihar will clash with Bengal in the final of the 4th All-India MP Verma Cricket Cup at Moinul Haq Stadium on Sunday.