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Hijab not an issue in Bihar, people respect each other's religions: Nitish

Talking with the media, Kumar said, "In Bihar schools, children wear the same type of dress... We respect each other's religious sentiments."

Will pray that everyone gets child who enters politics: Lalu on PM's remark

The remark was made after the Prime Minister praised Nitish Kumar for not indulging into dynasty politics and termed him a 'great socialist leader'.

Solar lights to illuminate rural Bihar roads from April 15: Nitish Kumar

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday asked the departments concerned to make the solar-powered street lighting scheme functional in rural areas of the state from April 15.

Old rivalries put JD(U) in a spot: Rift between Lalan Singh & RCP runs deep

Lalan accused RCP of controlling people's reach to Nitish Kumar

Vikassheel Insaan Party backs Nitish's leadership amid JDU-BJP rift

Vikassheel Insaan Party chief Mukesh Sahani backed Nitish Kumar and said that if BJP has a problem, they can walk out of the alliance.

Nitish Kumar-led Bihar govt likely to relax liquor prohibition law

Facing criticism over poor implementation of the liquor ban, the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar is likely to give some relaxation to the violators.

Bihar guv, CM express grief over the death of Pandit Birju Mahraj

Nitish Kumar condoling the death of the great kathak dancer said that the country has lost a legend of performing arts

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar tests positive for Covid-19

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has tested positive for Covid-19 and is in home isolation, his office said on Monday.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar puts off public programmes in view of Covid surge

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has put off his ongoing tour of the state and his weekly public interaction programme in the capital city in view of the recent spike in Covid cases

Tejashwi Yadav slams Nitish Kumar govt over NITI Aayog ranking of Bihar

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday slammed CM Nitish Kumar over Bihar's low ranking in NITI Aayog's poverty index baseline report and said that the "double-engine" govt is responsible for this

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's son Nishant five times richer than him

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar owns movable and immovable assets worth Rs 75.36 lakh, while his son Nishant is almost five times richer than him. As per details of assets of the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues uploaded on the Bihar government website on December 31, Kumar has Rs 29,385 in cash and nearly Rs 42,763 deposited in the bank, while his son Nishant has Rs 16,549 in cash and Rs 1.28 crore in Fixed Deposit (FD) or deposits in various banks. Kumar has movable assets worth Rs 16.51 lakh whereas the total value of his immovable assets is around Rs 58.85 lakh. His son owns movable properties worth Rs 1.63 crore and the value of his immovable assets is around Rs 1.98 crore. The chief minister has one residential flat in a cooperative housing society at Dwarka in New Delhi, while his son has agricultural land and residential houses at Kalyan Bigha and Hakikatpur (both in Nalanda district) and Kankarbagh in Patna. As per the declaration, Nishant has agricultural land

Omicron spread: Third Covid-19 wave in Bihar has begun, says Nitish Kumar

He also mooted opening a genome sequencing laboratory in the state

Nitish says don't come to Bihar if you want to drink, CJI questions ban

Nitish Kumar made his statement made during the third programme of his Social Reforms Campaign in Sasaram

Covid: No need of night curfew in Bihar, says CM Nitish Kumar

The situation in Bihar is better than many states right now, says Bihar CM

Prohibition won't be relaxed for those coming to Bihar from outside: Nitish

He also rubbished suggestions that an exception be made on medical grounds for certified alcoholics, asserting that people spoiled their health by drinking and not by being prevented from doing so

Development is meaningless without social reforms: Nitish Kumar

The chief minister aslo declared that there would be no compromise on total prohibition in the state

RJD leader Tejashwi slams Nitish govt for alleged forgery of Covid data

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav slammed the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar for the alleged forgery of data concerning the number of Covid-19 deaths and RT-PCR tests

Good work doesn't get much publicity: Nitish Kumar on CAG criticism

Kumar said a "damaging comment" often gets publicity and the good work ignored

Bihar minister boycotts assembly after his car stopped at gate

Jivesh Kumar, Minister of Labour in the Nitish Kumar government, walked out from the Vidhan Sabha after sharing his ordeal with Speaker Vijay Sinha

Liquor bottles on Bihar Assembly premises: Admin's failure, says Tejashwi

After empty liquor bottles were found on the premises of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav on Wed said that the incident reveals failure of the administration.