




With both RJD and Congress eyeing several seats won by JDU in the 2010 elections, Nitish Kumar is facing a tough time in convincing his party leaders. Even the candidature of some ministers is uncertain.
Speaking at IBN Dialogue Bihar 2.0, the Union minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad asserted that the state wanted change in the elections and was looking towards BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to form government in Bihar.
Ahead of the winter session, socialist opposition parties SP, JD-U, RJD and JD-S on Thursday announced a united front in parliament to counter the BJP led government.
This is a crucial day for Lalu as results for the election 10 by-poll seats in Bihar will be out today.
Voters could throw the ruling Congress party out of power at the next general election, due by next May, for presiding over one of the most sleaze-ridden periods in the country's history.
Special CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh is likely to pronounce the punishment at 3 PM today through video conferencing. 65-year-old Prasad and other convicts are currently lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail.
With less than 48 hours to go for the Railway Budget, CNN-IBN gets you voices of people from the two states which have had the maximum number of Railway Ministers - Bihar and West Bengal. Have things changed for the rail passengers?
It's going to be a battle for numbers in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday when the Lokpal Bill is taken up for be debate and voting in the House. For now it seems that allies like the Trinamool Congress and regional parties like the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will play a crucial role.
Several small parties led by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday registered their protests with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the exclusion of minorities from the quota in the Lokpal.
The Railways is missing its revenue targets and facing a cash squeeze just when it needs the money for large investments.
Bureaucrats in India’s most corrupt state are facing the heat from their own chief minister.
India’s poorest state has been posting impressive GDP growth. But the figures may need sharper scrutiny