The RJD chief had said the abductors of Dr Chandra had close ties with Thakur.
The Income Tax Department had earlier instituted an inquiry on the expenses incurred on the wedding of Laloo and Rabri's daughter.
'I have come to know that the sociology department of Harvard University is doing a research on me,' he said.
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'Prima facie, it seems that there was a landslide and boulders fell on the tracks,' said the Union railway minister about the derailment of Matysagandha Express that killed 14 people.
'When the incident took place we were in the opposition. We hardly know anything about it. We will study the facts to know the truth,' the railway minister said.
'The most important thing is safety as in the past we have seen frequent rail accidents due to which people are scared of travelling by trains,' the new railway minister said.
The ruling Rashtriya Dal chief, Laloo Prasad Yadav, said he will complain to President A P J Abdul Kalam against the governor.
'Vajpayee cannot aspire to become the prime minister again after the Lok Sabha polls next year as his party BJP will be routed,' the RJD chief said.
The court asked the former Bihar chief minister to file an undertaking regarding continuance of trial in fodder scam cases.
A Ranchi court on August 2 had refused to release Laloo's passport saying it was impounded on the orders of the Supreme Court and it would be released only if the SC so ordered.
Protesting the projection of Bihar as the most backward state in the country in an issue of India Today, a visibly angry Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Saturday walked out of a chief ministers' conclave organised by the magazine in New Delhi.
Special Judge S K Goyal granted bail to the father-son duo on a bail bond of Rs two million each and a surety of like amount in the disproportionate assets case.
RJD leaders will now have to hand over a minimum of Rs 1.21 lakh towards the party fund if they want him to attend programmes they organise.
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''He had given tools to fight all forms of homogenisation.'
Paswan was a minister under six different prime ministers, hardly out of government since he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977, observes Virendra Kapoor.
'He was No 2 to Laloo Prasad in the last government and he will be No 2 in the new one as well, not to Sushil Modi, but to the other Modi in Delhi.' 'In the process, Nitish Kumar will have to forget any role which he may have secretly entertained about playing a larger role on the national stage,' says Amulya Ganguli.
In the second phase on April 18, 97 seats,spread across 13 states and one Union Territory, will go to the polls.
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'It is clear that Prashant Kishor will be nowhere near repeating his earlier massive wins.' 'Nonetheless, he deserves at least two cheers for having the guts to take on such a challenging task.'
There is something deeply disturbing about wanting to build such a large temple in what is arguably India's poorest state, a state that like many other states of India, particularly in north India, is crying for more schools, more hospitals and primary health centres, and, dare I say it, more toilets for everyone, says Amberish K Diwanji
'For two months, Jitan Ram Manjhi kept a low profile. Once he was put in a place of power even though he had not acquired it himself, he thought he deserved it. He thought he must promote his own political career. Secondly, all those who were opposed to Nitish Kumar, either within the party or outside, started supporting him,' says Professor Prabhat Ghosh, director of the Asian Development Research Institute in Patna.
'It is precisely because of the apprehensions about Lalu's revival that the upper castes have started re-thinking their electoral preferences. Out of confusion, they are simply deciding to vote for winnable candidates from their respective castes of any of the three parties -- the BJP, JD-U or RJD. This is what has considerably neutralised the NaMo wave in Bihar and resulted in Nitin Gadkari's remark that "Caste is in the DNA of Biharis". This is why Giriraj Singh, the BJP candidate from Nawada, made provocative statements,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
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