The newly elected leader of the opposition of Bihar assembly, Nand Kishore Yadav slammed chief minister Nitish Kumar for breaking the coalition for his own prime ministerial ambitions and giving in to politics of convenience by joining hands with the Congress.
Anirban Guha Roy reports.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday brushed aside allegations that cadres of her party had unleashed terror on opposition candidates
The Calcutta high court today did not allow a CBI probe into the multi-crore Saradha scam at the present stage
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged today that the Centre and its agencies, along with the CPI(M), Congress, Maoists and a section of the media have joined hands to murder her.
HT reports.
On a day when Nitish Kumar won the trust vote, the BJP struggled to keep its members together after some of the senior party leaders expressed their resentment over Nand Kishore Yadav's nomination as leader of the Opposition in the state assembly.
Subhash Pathak reports.
Dissension surfaced within BJP over choice of leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly with a section of legislators protesting selection of Nand Kishore Yadav to the post without discussion with MLAs.
Around 111 passengers on board a Patna-New Delhi Air India Airbus 320 aircraft (AI 408) had a lucky escape when one of its engine allegedly caught fire, forcing the pilot to abort take-off at the eleventh hour in Patna on Wednesday afternoon (at 3.15pm).
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar sailed through the confidence vote in the assembly today, after the split with the NDA, garnering 126 votes against the 122 needed for a simple majority amidst a walkout by the BJP legislators.
Ashok Mishra reports.
Ahead of the trust vote Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has sought in the assembly on Wednesday, friend-turned-foe BJP has said it is prepared to sit in the Opposition.
An elderly man in Daspara-Jibantala village under Ranitala PS in Murshidabad was allegedly killed by CPI(M)backed goons as his daughter-in-law didn’t withdraw her candidature as a Congress nominee in the panchayat elections.
Bus operators are likely to set three conditions before the state transport minister in lieu of facilitating the proposal mooted by the Mamata government to shift the city’s busiest bus terminuses from Esplanade and Babughat.
The online admission procedure which has been strictly enforced in most of the colleges this academic year might have benefited lakhs of students, but has hit the students’ organisations hard.
In what could send cheers among mango growers and the legions swearing by the king of fruits, a city-based management school has collaborated with a Jaipur counterpart to invent a device for picking mangoes from trees in a modern and scientific manner.
Salt Lake stadium is set to undergo renovation ahead of under-17 FIFA World Cup 2017; seating capacity is going to be reduced.
Following the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta and sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury — both resulting from campus politics — not many Class 12 passouts are willing to join politics in colleges.