Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
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Opposition leaders discuss strategies against BJP for 2024 Lok Sabha polls in mega meet in Patna
Fp Staff •All eyes are on the meeting's agenda and whether the Centre's ordinance on the control of administrative services in the national capital would be a key part of the discussions as the AAP wants.
Bihar Bridge Collapse: Construction company faces show cause notice, engineer suspended
Fp Staff •The under-construction bridge, a portion of which caved in on Sunday, involved a cost of over ₹ 1,700 crores and was supposed to be completed by 2019. The foundation stone of the structure was laid in February 2014, by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Collapsed or intentional demolition? The Bihar bridge that tumbled twice in one year
Fp Explainers •A stretch of the Aguwani-Sultanganj bridge collapsed on Sunday, leaving many people in shock. This is the second time that it has come down like a pack of cards – it tumbled in April last year. While the BJP has attacked the government, Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav said it was intentionally demolished
Five killed in road accident in Bihar's Purnea, CM Nitish Kumar expresses grief
•On Saturday afternoon, a road accident took place in Purnia in which five people died on the spot and nine people were injured
INLD rally: Need of hour is one front of all opposition parties including Congress & Left, says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
•If all non-BJP parties unite, then they can get rid of those who are working to destroy the country, Kumar said at a mega rally organised by the Indian National Lok Dal in Fatehabad to mark former deputy prime minister Devi Lal's birth anniversary
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar calls for opposition unity; JD(U) alleges 'undeclared emergency' in country
•'If all opposition parties fight unitedly, the BJP tally will be confined to 50 seats,' the JD(U) leader told in a meeting of party's state executive of Bihar before its national executive meeting
Eighth wonder: Nitish Kumar takes charge of new Bihar government
Fp Staff •Nitish Kumar returned to the role of chief minister on Wednesday, only this time his party formed an alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal. His dissatisfaction with the BJP prompted him to break the alliance and revive the Mahaghatbandhan
Youth who attacked Nitish Kumar found 'mentally disturbed'; no action to be initiated
Fp Staff •Earlier in a video that went viral on the internet, the youth was seen approaching Kumar and trying to hit him from behind during a programme in Bakhtiarpur, Patna
Bihar hooch tragedy: About 40 dead in several districts since Diwali
•The latest deaths have been recorded in Samastipur district. Earlier, at least 33 people died in Gopalganj and West Champaran districts upon consuming spurious liquor.
RCP Singh, close confidant of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, chosen as new JD(U) president
•The chief minister, who was re-elected as the JD(U) president in 2019 for three years, relinquished the post in favour of Singh. The bureaucrat-turned-politician is the party's leader in the Rajya Sabha