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Modi meets Advani to get backing for new role
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday met L.K. Advani to get the BJP patriarch's backing for his new role as head of the BJP's campaign committee, an elevation that has split the NDA. |
BJP foresees political re-alignment after elections
Hyderabad, June 18 (IANS) Denying that the NDA has weakened with the Janata Dal-United pulling out, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has predicted a re-alignment of political forces before and after the next Lok Sabha election. |
Does protocol demand central minister to praise CM, wonders Lalu
Patna,(BiharTimes): Taking advantage of the tape provided by the BJP to the media the president of RJD Lalu Prasad on Tuesday took a dig at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for showering fulsome praise on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in December 2003. |
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‘Secular’ Nitish reciprocates, thanks Manmohan
Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Nitish Kumar as secular, the Bihar Chief Minister on Tuesday thanked the former for using such an expression for him. |
Unique, green air-cooling system for Nalanda University Patna, June 18 (IANS) Architects building the Nalanda International University at the ancient seat of learning in Bihar have decided to use the desiccant enhanced evaporative (Devap) air-cooling system. This is the first time such a system will be used in India. |
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What about protocol when Narendra Modi was humiliated in Bihar: Ravi Shankar
Patna,(BiharTimes): Former Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Tuesday asked Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar as to what protocol he had maintained when the Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi, visited Patna on the occasion of National Executive of BJP on June 12-13, 2010. |
Modi meets Advani
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met senior BJP leader L.K. Advani here Tuesday, a week after the party patriarch quit following the former's elevation as the party's campaign committee chief. |
BJP to expose Nitish Kumar's 'doublespeak' ,
Patna, June 17 (IANS) A day after its 17-year-old alliance with the JD-U ended, an angry BJP Monday decided to expose the "doublespeak" of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over Narendra Modi by distributing CDs of an old video in which he praised the Gujarat Chief Minister. |
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Nitish harming Advani by championing his cause
Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is these days busy championing the cause of former deputy prime minister and BJP patriarch Lal Krishan Advani to further his own agenda.
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Difficult to work with BJP's new era leaders: Nitish Kumar
Patna, June 17 (IANS) It is difficult to work with Bharatiya Janata Party's new era leaders, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Monday, a day after his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) ended a 17-year-old alliance with the saffron party. |
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BJP,JD(U) workers celebrate collapse of marriage of convenience
Patna,(BiharTimes): Divorce is often followed by remorse, regret and recollection of painful past.But here in Patna the workers of BJP and JD(U) on Sunday celebrated the break of 17 years old alliance. JD(U)––which was the first party other than the religion-based Akali Dal and Shiv Sena to give secular legitimacy to BJP––left the NDA on June 16 alleging that it is a communal party. |
NDA splits as JD-U goes, BJP hits back at Nitish
Patna, June 16 (IANS) Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) ended its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP Sunday after days of simmering tensions, marking a major split in the country's main opposition grouping. |
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Alliances work on faith, says Rajnath Singh
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Snubbing the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) shortly after it snapped ties with the BJP, party president Rajnath Singh said Sunday alliances work on the basis of faith. |
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Patna, June 16 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Sunday that he had told Governor D.Y. Patil that he wanted all 11 BJP ministers out of his ministry as they had stopped attending office. |
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Patna, June 16 : Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav announced Sunday that his party had ended its 17-year-old alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). |
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Patna, June 16 : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Sunday that a special session of the assembly will be called Wednesday so that he can prove his majority. |
 JD-U's relations with BJP over: Tyagi
Patna, June 16 (IANS) Janata Dal-United (JD-U) general secretary K.C. Tyagi announced Sunday that his party's long alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had ended. |
Nitish Kumar to meet governor
Patna, June 16 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will meet Governor D.Y. Patil Sunday afternoon amid indications that the Janata Dal-United and the BJP are set to end their alliance.
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| BJP shifts Rajnath’s rally after denial of permission Patna,(BiharTimes): After the state education department, which is headed by education minister, Prashant Kumar Shahi, rejected the BJP’s demand to hold the rally of its national president, Rajnath Singh, on June 23 the party decided to hold it at Sanjay Gandhi Stadium in Gardanibagh, Patna. |
JD-U, BJP inching towards snapping ties
Patna/New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) The rift in Bihar's ruling alliance sharpened Saturday with the BJP telling Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to quit and order fresh polls if he decided to break the partnership, while the JD-U continued to attack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and said the split was a "mere formality". |
| JD-U set to break up: Lalu Prasad Patna, June 15 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad Saturday said that Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) was on the verge of breaking up as over 50 of its legislators were set to join the BJP. |
| Quit if you want to dump us, BJP tells Nitish Patna, June 15 (IANS) Bihar's ruling coalition took another hit Saturday as the BJP told Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to resign and seek a fresh mandate if he decides to break the alliance. |
| Nitish Kumar poaching legislators: Lalu Prasad Patna, June 15 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad Saturday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of poaching legislators from other parties amid indications of ties snapping between the JD-U and the BJP, the ruling coalition partners. |
BJP leaders refuse to meet Nitish Kumar
Patna, June 15 (IANS) Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi refused to meet Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday despite a request amid tensions in Bihar's ruling coalition, sources in both parties said. |
Bihar may have to pay price if NDA splits, says Arun Jaitley in Oxford
Patna,(BiharTimes): The leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Arun Jaitley, on Friday sent out a stark message to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar over a possible JD(U) split with the NDA, saying the state might have to pay a price if the alliance ends. |
| Nitish calls situation 'difficult', BJP hits back at JD-U Patna, June 14 (IANS) In a clear indication towards a split in the BJP-JD-U combine, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Friday said the situation in the alliance was now "difficult", while the BJP accused his party of trying to split it. |
| Deputy CM, other BJP ministers not attending offices Patna,(BiharTimes): Led by the deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi the BJP ministers in Bihar have stopped attending their offices. Not only that reports started appearing that officials in many offices have stopped listening to the order or directive from the BJP ministers. |
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| Special status panel meets in New Delhi Patna,(BiharTimes): The six-member committee on special status headed by Raghuram Rajan, chief economic adviser in the finance ministry, met in New Delhi on Thursday to discuss various aspects, which need to be taken into account while deciding the backwardness of a state in comparison to the national average. |
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| Sushil Modi calls BJP ministers meeting on Sat afternoon Patna,(BiharTimes): Even as the BJP ministers skipped office for the second day on Friday Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi has called a meeting of all the party ministers at his Patna residence at 3 pm. Incidentally, Giriraj Singh and Ashwini Choubey are out of state. |
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| JD-U is trying to break us in Bihar: BJP Patna, June 14 (IANS) The BJP Friday accused Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) of trying to split it amid rising tensions between the two parties in the state. |
| Why Jamui train attack got more national media coverage? Patna,(BiharTimes): The way the national news channels and dailies in New Delhi and other news centres outside Bihar highlighted the Maoists attack near Jamui clearly suggests that media, in general, has changed its stand on the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar. |
Federal Front: TDP ready to join, Nitish says talks on
New Delhi/Patna/Hyderabad, June 13: The proposal for a Federal Front got some boost Thursday with the Telugu Desam expressing readiness to join it while Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said his JD-U was holding discussions with his West Bengal and Odisha counterparts, Mamata Banerjee and Naveen Patnaik, on the issue. |
Suspected Maoists attack train in Bihar, three killed
Patna (BiharTimes)June 13 In an audacious daylight attack, suspected Maoists attacked a passenger train in Bihar's Jamui district Thursday afternoon, killing a railway police personnel and two passengers, said police and the railway ministry. |
| Efforts on to air-link Gaya to metros Patna,(BiharTimes): As the Airport Authority of India (AAI) is losing about Rs 1.5 crore every month on its operational cost because of the under-utilization of Gaya international airport efforts are being made to link the town with important metros of the country. |
BJP reaches out to JD-U to prevent snap New Delhi/Patna, June 13 (IANS) Frantic efforts continued through Thursday to save the NDA from rupture as BJP leaders met with the leadership of the JD-U, the alliance's second largest component, to clear the latter's misgivings over Narendra Modi leading the 2014 Lok Sabha poll campaign. |
Maoists attack train in Bihar, railway cop killed
Patna, June 13 (IANS) Suspected armed Maoists attacked a passenger train in Bihar's Jamui district Thursday afternoon killing a railway police personnel and injuring half a dozen other people, police said. |
We discussed formation of Federal Front: Nitish Kumar
Patna, June 13 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) was in discussions with his West Bengal and Odisha counterparts, Mamta Banerjee and Naveen Patnaik, on the formation of a Federal Front. |
Has June 12 something to do with Nitish Kumar?
Patna,(BiharTimes): June 12 has something to do with Nitish Kumar. Perhaps.
On June 12, 2010 the Bihar chief minister suddenly cancelled his dinner for the BJP bigwigs. The saffron party was holding its two-day National Executive meeting in Patna (June 12-13). Till then the relationship between the BJP and JD(U) was excellent and Nitish had no complaint whatsoever with his Gujarat counterpart. |
BJP asks JD-U not to run down Modi
Hyderabad, June 13 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu Thursday asked Janata Dal-United leaders not to make derogatory remarks against his party colleague and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. |
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New Delhi/Kolkata/Patna, June 12 : The political drama around the rise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday threatened to impact Bihar, with the state's ruling JD-U expected to snap its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP and the impending development triggering talk of a third front ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls. |
Mamata's federal front call a joke, says CPI-M
Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) The CPI-M Wednesday dubbed Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee's call for a federal front a "joke" and said her asking non-Congress and non-BJP regional parties to form a front for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls would be a damp squib. |
Bihar's people want alliance with JD-U, says BJP
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The BJP Wednesday said its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar was continuing in the interest of people of the state and any break in ties will ruin hopes of the electorate. |
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Advani's era is over, says JD-U
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) L.K. Advani's era is over and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) would soon take a decision on its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, JD-U leader Shivanand Tiwari said Wednesday. |
| Patna theatre opening postponed for 'Raanjhanaa' Mumbai, June 12 (IANS) In the cut-throat world of film exhibition, it is very rare for any theatre owner to move away for emotional reasons. But this is what happened when in Patna, the single theatre Mona was converted into twin-theatre multiplex this year. The opening of the new theatre was postponed from May 31 to June 21 just to accommodate "Raanjhanaa". |
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