Senior leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Left parties came together in Patna on Sunday to urge people to unite and throw out the NDA governments at the Centre and the states. They also rele...

Eager attempts    After the Rajya Sabha candidates for the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar had filed their nominations, it was time for a photo with the chief minister, Nitish Kuma...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday sidestepped a query about apprehensions expressed by ally BJP over the proposed headcount of castes in the state. "Pata nahin," (I am not aware...

The Bihar cabinet on Thursday gave its nod for a headcount of all castes in the state, allocating a budgetary outlay of Rs 500 crore for the mammoth exercise and setting deadline of February 23 next f...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar chaired an all-party meeting on caste census on Wednesday and announced that a unanimous decision had been made to conduct it expeditiously in Bihar. The census will inclu...

A state of "inertia" has scourged politics in Bihar, former election strategist Prashant Kishor has said, contending that positions of power have remained concentrated among just 1,200-1,300...

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has denied a Rajya Sabha ticket to his party colleague and Union steel minister R.C.P. Singh. If Singh is not given an extension for six months or Nitish’s new...

Man of steel?    It is rare for the Narendra Modi Government to crumble under pressure. Two astonishing rollbacks — the bill to dilute the Land Acquisition Act and farm laws &mdash...

The Nitish Kumar government on Thursday approved the Bihar Industrial Investment Promotion Policy (Textile and Leather) 2022 with wide-ranging sops to attract investment and entrepreneurs in the secto...

Keeping Big Brother on tenterhooks is fun. The Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) leader, Nitish Kumar, seems to be doing that. He is an accomplished player, even if a couple of his moves do...