Bihar Polls
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Absence on campaign trail not by choice: Shatrughan Sinha
National | Oct 25, 2015, 05:05 PM ISTPatna: After not being able to campaign during the Assembly polls underway in Bihar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shatrughan Sinha today said that his absence on the campaign trail was "not by choice"."My party
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Bihar polls: Nalanda litmus test for JD(U)-RJD alliance
National | Oct 25, 2015, 02:56 PM ISTNalanda: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's home turf Nalanda will prove to be a litmus test for the JDU-RJD alliance as the dominant castes in the region - Kurmis and Yadav have for long been rivals
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Poster wars reach a crescendo in Patna ahead of polls
National | Oct 25, 2015, 02:38 PM ISTPatna: Helicopter-borne candidates and campaigners circling over villages and cities may have raised the battle pitch in Bihar literally to the skies, but posters and hoardings still rule here as opponents are using the visual campaign to the
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Rising dal prices: Arun Jaitley asks Nitish Kumar to act against hoarders
National | Oct 24, 2015, 08:32 PM ISTPatna: Countering criticism of BJP by rival parties in Bihar polls over rising prices of pulses, Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre is taking steps to quell the crisis through imports and asked
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Bihar Polls: BJP trying to win elections through 'negative' agendas, says Nitish Kumar
National | Oct 23, 2015, 07:05 PM ISTChapra: Rejecting the Gujarat model of development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday alleged that Gujarat has the largest population of malnourished women and said they do not need the model which "cannot adequately
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Bihar poll results may rekindle inner party democracy in BJP: Bihar CM
National | Oct 23, 2015, 11:43 AM ISTPatna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has anticipated the strengthening of an anti-BJP front in centre after Bihar elections.In an interview to Economic Times, Kumar said, “There will be a consolidation of an anti-BJP front
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NDA's defeat in Bihar polls will pose no threat to Modi government: Digvijay
National | Oct 22, 2015, 03:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: NDA's defeat in the Bihar assembly polls will have some impact on the Centre but that would pose no threat to the Narendra Modi government which has been elected for five years, senior
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Bihar polls: EC clears PM's 'Mann ki Baat' this Sunday with a rider
National | Oct 21, 2015, 08:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Election Commission has given a go-ahead to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest episode of 'Mann ki baat' to be aired on Sunday with a rider that it will not carry anything which
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Bihar polls: Campaigning in the time of call drops
National | Oct 21, 2015, 05:17 PM ISTAt least one thing is sure. Call drops don't just affect the common man. Even ministers are victims of the sudden disconnect or silence at other end of the mobile connection.During campaigning in Bihar, Ravi
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Bihar polls: Lalu Prasad terms PM Modi as 'political Ravana'
National | Oct 20, 2015, 09:38 PM ISTPatna: Bihar being in the grip of a Dusshera festival mood, leaders of rival political groups including RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav today used examples of slaying of Ravana to attack each other.Yadav set the
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Pulse war breaks out on Bihar's electoral table
National | Oct 20, 2015, 09:10 PM ISTPatna: With a finger on the pulse of voters, rivals alliances in election-bound Bihar today served each other liberal portions of blame for rapidly vanishing pulses from the platter of the common man due to
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Keep your 'achche din', return people their 'purane din': Nitish Kumar to PM Modi
National | Oct 20, 2015, 06:07 PM ISTNalanda (Bihar): Nitish Kumar today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring back 'purane din' (old days) of the people, as the Bihar chief minister hit back at the BJP, which blamed him for the
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4 factors that will likely decide Bihar Polls
National | Oct 20, 2015, 04:30 PM ISTGiven that the ongoing Bihar elections could be decided by the slimmest of margins and, with a vast redrawing of the political landscape, too confused to call, according to this Mint analysis the state's 3.1
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Election Commission wants central para-military forces at all Bihar polling booths
National | Oct 19, 2015, 06:31 PM ISTMuzaffarpur: The Election Commission today asked its officials to ensure deployment of central para-military forces (CPMFs) at all polling stations in Bihar during the remaining phases of the Assembly polls to ensure free and fair
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Bihar Polls: Bhagwat's quota remark 'sealed' BJP's fate in the state says Lalu
National | Oct 18, 2015, 09:59 PM ISTPatna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, who has milked to the last drop Mohan Bhagwat's call for a review of the reservation policy, feels BJP's fate has been "sealed" by the RSS chief's remarks and claims
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Bihar polls: Election posters, banners removed from Patna Airport
National | Oct 15, 2015, 05:10 PM ISTPatna: All poll banners and posters were today removed from the premises of Patna Airport here, a day after grand alliance moved Election Commission for removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit
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JP movement: 38-year-old legacy hangs over Bihar polls
National | Oct 15, 2015, 04:44 PM IST“Why were you sitting next to the persons responsible for arresting JP?” Prime Minister Narendra Modi rhetorically asked rival Nitish Kumar during his Bihar election run.The 38-year-old JP Movement, or what is also known as
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Bihar Polls: Can BJP Continue 2014 Winning Streak?
National | Oct 13, 2015, 06:25 PM ISTNew Delhi: The first phase of Bihar elections for 49 seats saw a voter turnout of 57%, according to Election Commission of India.There are two reasons that assembly elections in Bihar, scheduled to be held
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Crowd gets violent in Ajay Devgn's poll meeting, police resort to lathicharge
National | Oct 13, 2015, 05:10 PM ISTBiharsharif: Around 12 people, including some policemen, were injured as police resorted to lathicharge to quell a stone-pelting crowd which grew restive due to late arrival of Bollywood actor star Ajay Devgn at a poll
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Bihar polls: Record voter turnout adds to curiosity over electoral outcome
National | Oct 13, 2015, 12:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: Bihar today witnessed a record voter turnout of 57 per cent. It is way higher compared to voter turnout in 2009 Lok Sabha elections (44.08 per cent), 2010 Assembly elections (50.85 per cent)