Bihar Bandh
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Bihar shuts down for five hours as NDA protest against derogatory remarks about PM Modi’s mother
Bihar | Sep 04, 2025, 01:42 PM ISTBihar bandh: Senior BJP leaders, state ministers, party MPs, MLAs and workers also staged a sit-in outside the state unit office. Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal, MPs Ravi Shankar Prasad and Dharmshila Gupta, and other senior leaders participated in the dharna.
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Bihar Bandh ends as BJP workers protest against derogatory remarks on PM Modi’s mother
Bihar | Sep 04, 2025, 01:33 PM ISTBihar Bandh: The women's wings of NDA called for a five-hour bandh in Bihar on September 4 to protest against the alleged abuses hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Congress' 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in the state recently.
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Bihar Bandh today: Who has called the statewide protest on September 4 and why?
Bihar | Sep 04, 2025, 12:01 AM ISTBihar bandh: BJP and JD(U) termed the alleged remarks against PM Modi and his mother made during an event linked to the Opposition’s Voter Adhikar Yatra as an “insult to all mothers”. The shutdown is scheduled to take place from 7 am to noon.
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Bihar Bandh on 4 September: What's open and what's closed today? Everything you need to know
Bihar | Sep 04, 2025, 12:01 AM ISTBihar Bandh on 4 September: The bandh, which has been called by BJP-led NDA, will begin at 7 am on Thursday and continue till noon.
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Bihar Bandh: Mahagathbandhan holds protests, Rahul Gandhi joins stir in Patna; BJP calls it 'drama'
Bihar | Jul 09, 2025, 08:59 PM ISTBihar Bandh today: The Mahagathbandhan staged a statewide Bihar bandh on Tuesday to protest the Election Commission’s revision of electoral rolls, alleging mass deletion of poor voters' names ahead of the 2025 Assembly elections.
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BPSC Protest: Pappu Yadav calls for Bihar Bandh tomorrow seeking exam cancellation
Bihar | Jan 11, 2025, 01:49 PM ISTBPSC protest: Pappu Yadav expressed solidarity with students protesting against the Combined Competitive preliminary Examination (CCE Prelims) conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC).
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Who is Khan Sir, why he is in news amidst RRB, NTPC exam protests in Bihar?
India | Jan 28, 2022, 02:18 PM ISTWho is Khan sir: Earlier this week, Students who appeared for Railway Recruitment Board's Non-Technical Popular Categories exam 2021 allegedly set a passenger train on fire and pelted stones on police in Bihar's Arrah.
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RRB NTPC Protests: 4 arrested for pelting stones, vandalism in Patna, says district DM
India | Jan 28, 2022, 07:00 AM ISTAISA General Secretary and MLA Sandeep Saurav along with others in a press statement said that the committee formed by the ministry is a "conspiracy" to postpone the matter till the elections in Uttar Pradesh.
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Students unions call Bihar Bandh on Jan 28 over discrepancies in RRB NTPC exam
India | Jan 27, 2022, 09:07 AM ISTAISA General Secretary and MLA Sandeep Saurav along with others in a press statement said that the committee formed by the ministry is a "conspiracy" to postpone the matter till the elections in Uttar Pradesh.
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Tejashwi Yadav among opposition leaders booked in Bihar for anti-CAA bandh
India | Dec 23, 2019, 07:07 AM ISTTop opposition leaders In Bihar, including RJD's Tejashwi Yadav, have been booked in connection with the bandh organised here on the previous day in protest against the amended Citizenship Act and a proposed countrywide National Register for Citizens (NRC), police said on Sunday.
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'Don't know what is CAA,' say protesting children in RJD's rally amid Bihar Bandh call over CAA, NRC
India | Dec 21, 2019, 02:54 PM ISTChildren being used as a political tool amid RJD's Bihar bandh over CAA and NRC.
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Anti-CAA bandh rocks Bihar; rail, road traffic disrupted
India | Dec 21, 2019, 02:58 PM ISTThe Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) called for a bandh today in Bihar against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Earlier, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav had announced about Bihar Bandh to demonstrate against the Citizenship Act, that grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and came to India on or before December 31, 2014.
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Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case: Bandh called by Left parties hits normal life in parts of Bihar
India | Aug 02, 2018, 04:01 PM ISTThere was a skirmish between bandh supporters, including a number of women, and police near Gandhi Maidan, where the agitators were shouting slogans against the Nitish Kumar government.
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Left parties call for Bihar Bandh against Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case
News | Aug 02, 2018, 12:27 PM ISTLeft parties call for Bihar Bandh against Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case
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Bihar bandh today, RJD workers stage protest against 'faulty' sand mining policy
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Pappu Yadav detained while enforcing Bihar bandh
National | Jul 11, 2015, 07:28 PM ISTPatna: Madhepura MP and Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) leader Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was today taken into preventive detention with several of his supporters while they were enforcing a bandh in the state capital
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Naxals torch over 2 dozen vehicles in Gaya
India | May 25, 2015, 12:00 PM ISTGaya: Maoists set at least 32 vehicles on fire in Amas in Gaya district of Bihar to enforce a two-day shutdown beginning today."A group of armed Maoists forcibly stopped vehicles on the busy Grand Trunk
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Bihar shutdown disrupts rail, road traffic
India | Oct 21, 2014, 01:08 PM ISTPatna: A shutdown in Bihar on Tuesday to protest the arrest of three men for the alleged gang rape of six Mahadalit women has hit rail and road traffic, police said.The shutdown was called by
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JD(U)'s 'Bihar bandh' on special status demand affects life
India | Mar 02, 2014, 07:59 PM ISTPatna: The JD(U)-sponsored ‘Bihar bandh' on special status demand, on a holiday, evoked good response today paralysing normal life as protesters took to streets disrupting road and rail services.Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led from the
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CPI-ML shutdown in Bihar has marginal impact
India | Feb 23, 2014, 08:09 PM ISTPatna: In protest over the hike in power tariffs and manipulation in caste census in Bihar, CPI-ML had called for a shutdown on Sunday, but it had marginal impact. Life in Patna went on as