Bihar

Sources said Nitish plans to aggressively play the backward card as the head of his party and position himself as the top backward leader of the INDIA bloc.

Before leaving for New Delhi to attend the 'INDIA' bloc' meeting scheduled on Tuesday, Lalu told media persons at Patna airport that the opposition parties would ensure the defeat of the BJP.

However, Pandey said that he has falsely been implicated by the central agency in the killing of Brahmeshwar Singh Mukhiya, erstwhile chief of the private army, Ranvir Sena.

He died of his injuries during treatment at Danapur sub-divisional hospital. Sources said that Abhishek was not handcuffed at the time of the incident.

The Darbhanga police set up a special team to gather information about Lalit Jha and his family following intelligence inputs.

Over 600 investors from within the country and abroad are taking part in the two-day global summit organised for the first time in Patna.

While Nitish will address a public meeting in Varanasi on December 24, he will also visit Maharashtra, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Gujarat as part of his campaign.

The demand for special category status has been revived afresh after the release of the caste and economic survey data.

The worker complained of this when Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met him at the community health centre in Chinyalisaur and asked how he was doing.

‘Bhim Sansad’ will try to counter BJP's attempt to paint Nitish as an anti-Dalit leader after his outbursts against Manjhi during the last winter session of the state assembly

During the course of investigation, police came to know that two more persons had died in the area after drinking spurious liquor.

As per the survey report, 80 percent of the people of Bihar do not earn even Rs 100 a day, said Kishor. This is the result of 32 years of Lalu-Nitish rule, he added.

Manjhi said he would hold a dharna against Nitish for his unsavoury remarks against him as it was not only an insult to him but also to the entire Dalit community of Bihar and the country.

The state pollution control board on Sunday asked the district administrations to strictly enforce laws to check air pollution in their respective areas.

“Who made you the CM? It was my stupidity that I made you the CM. This man has no sense, no idea,” Nitish berated Manjhi for his previous term in office.

Bihar government last month released the report of the caste census it had conducted in the state, which claimed the population of reserved category is over 84 per cent.

Bihar CM proposes to raise SC/ST reservations from 17 per cent to 22 per cent and OBC/EBC reservations from 50 per cent to 65 per cent.

According to the survey report, Yadavs constitute 14.3 per cent of Bihar’s population while and 17.7 per cent population is Muslims.