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  Ram Vilas Paswan a big signature in Indian politics: Nitish Kumar

  India | October 08, 2020 22:54 IST

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi and RJD president Lalu Prasad on Thursday condoled the death of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan in Delhi.

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  PM Modi condoles Ram Vilas Paswan's death, says he was an outstanding Parliamentarian and Minister

  India | October 08, 2020 21:43 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute to Union Minister and founder of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Ram Vilas Paswan Ji who died at the age of 74. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said, "Ram Vilas Paswan Ji rose in politics through hardwork and determination. As a young leader, he resisted tyranny and the assault on our democracy during the Emergency."

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  Union Minister and LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan passes away

  News | October 08, 2020 21:37 IST

  Lok Janshakti Party founder and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan passed away on Thursday evening. He was 74. He breathed his last a Delhi hospital. He had undergone a heart surgery recently.

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  LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan dies; condolences pour in

  India | October 08, 2020 21:33 IST

  Ram Vilas Paswan, Lok Janshakti Party founder and Union Minister, passed away at a Delhi hospital on Thursday.

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  LJP founder and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan passes away at 74

  India | October 08, 2020 21:33 IST

  Lok Janshakti Party founder and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan passed away on Thursday evening. He was 74.

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  Ram Vilas Paswan — socialist and champion of downtrodden — dies at 74; nation mourns

  India | October 08, 2020 23:55 IST

  Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister and founder of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), has died. Paswan 74, had a heart surgery a couple of days ago in a Delhi hospital.

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  LJP's decision to contest Bihar polls outside NDA fold throws open new possibilities

  India | October 04, 2020 23:35 IST

  The Lok Janshakti Party's decision on Sunday to walk out of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar has upended conventional wisdom and thrown open new possibilities in the three-phase assembly elections starting from October 28.

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  Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan undergoes heart surgery

  India | October 04, 2020 11:28 IST

  Ram Vilas Paswan (74), who has been in active politics for more than five decades and is one of the country's most noted Dalit leaders, has been hospitalised for the last few weeks.

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  Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan unwell, hospitalised

  India | September 11, 2020 9:42 IST

  Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, has been hospitalised after his health deteriorated. Paswan, founder of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) informed of his health in a series of tweet. 

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  Ram Vilas Paswan admitted in hospital, condition stable

  India | August 25, 2020 8:20 IST

  Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan, who is hospitalised due to heart and kidney problems, is said to be stable. Sources said that he may be discharged from the hospital on Tuesday after routine checkup.

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  Ram Vilas Paswan demands CBI probe in Sushant Singh Rajput death case

  News | July 31, 2020 17:37 IST

  Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan demanded a CBI probe in Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

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  I support Chirag in all party decisions: Ram Vilas Paswan on reports of Congress being in contact with him

  News | July 10, 2020 10:52 IST

  Consumer Affairs Minister and LJP leader, Ram Vilas Paswan held a media press conference on July 09.

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  Amendment to EC Act not something impossible to achieve: Paswan

  India | May 16, 2020 20:26 IST

  Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday said bringing an amendment to the six-and-a-half-decades old Essential Commodities Act (ECA) to deregulate six types of agri-produce is not something impossible to achieve but one needs to see the practicality.  

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  14 lakh people in Bihar not getting benefits under food security act: Paswan

  India | April 23, 2020 17:43 IST

  The consumer affairs, food and public distribution minister said that the NFSA is supposed to cover 71 crore people across the country.

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  COVID-19: Govt to give life insurance cover up to Rs 35L to FCI officials, labourers, says Paswan

  Business | April 10, 2020 19:44 IST

  Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday announced a life insurance cover of up to Rs 35 lakh per person to over 1 lakh FCI officials and labourers in case they succumb to COVID-19 after six months of performing duty from the day of lockdown on March 24.

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  Ram Vilas Paswan urges people not to follow rumours, says enough stock available in market

  News | March 19, 2020 14:18 IST

  Action will be taken against those involve in black-marketing, says Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan

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  Case filed against Ram Vilas Paswan over onion price rise

  Crime | December 07, 2019 20:33 IST

  Nayyar, a resident of Muzaffarpur town, in his complaint said that Paswan has failed to check onion prices despite being the union minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution.

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  Govt extends stock holding limit on onion traders indefinitely to check price rise

  India | November 27, 2019 23:28 IST

  "Stockholding limit on retailers and wholesalers are being further extended until further orders," an official statement said. The stock holding limit was imposed in September. At present, retailers can stock onion only up to 100 quintals and wholesale traders are allowed to keep up to 500 quintals.

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  Water quality spat: Paswan challenges Kejriwal to serve tap water at official meetings

  India | November 21, 2019 20:10 IST

  The war of words over quality of water in the national capital escalated on Thursday with Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan asking Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to serve tap water at official meetings if he believed the water in Delhi was safe to drink.

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  Central ministers playing 'dirty politics' by saying drinking water in Delhi poisonous: Kejriwal

  India | November 18, 2019 14:48 IST

  Kejriwal said five random water samples will be lifted publicly from each ward in the city for examination and asserted that only 1.5 percent of the 1.55 lakh water samples picked up by the Delhi Jal Board in January-September this year have failed the tests