Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal on Wednesday won Maharajganj Lok Sabha bypoll by a convincing margin of over 1.37 lakh votes.
Lok Janashakti Party member of parliament from Balia, Suraj Singh alias Surajbhan Singh on Thursday challenged before the Patna High Court his conviction for a life term in a murder case by a Begusarai fast track court.
India's financial sector is dominated by large government-owned and private-sector banks.
Counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections has begun across states and Union Territories, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar told PTI.
The government should shun populist measures and take tough decisions to rein in the fiscal deficit, says Yashwant Sinha.
A notification issued by the Home Department, Government of Nagaland, read, 'Whereas, there is apprehension of grave law and order problems in Mon District, Nagaland owing to the prevailing situation created by firing incidents today, leading to the death of several persons in Tiru Oting village area under Tizit and Naginimora sub-divisions.'
At least two children of a government primary school in Bihar's Saran district died on Tuesday after consuming the mid-day meal. Also, Over 80 children have taken ill fell, an official said.
Angry over the children's death, hundreds of people took to the streets and protested near the local police station demanding action against school teacher and officials responsible for the calamity.
Police said the clash broke out when BJP activists travelling in a mini truck to the rally at Suri had an altercation with the local TMC workers while passing through Simurali in the district.
"Police are conducting searches and have also spoken to relatives of the absconding principal, Meena Devi, and her grocer husband Arjun Rai but they are yet to be arrested," Saran SP Sujit Kumar said.
One more child has died in the mid-day meal tragedy in Chhapra taking the toll to 23, while 25 others, including 24 children and a cook, were under treatment in the PatnaMedicalCollege and Hospital.
Acharya, in a letter to Rio, asked him to prove his majority on the floor of the House on or before March 16, the source said.
The mid-day meal tragedy has sparked a blame game with the Bihar government on Friday refuting Centre's contention of having sent alerts to 12 districts including Saran, where 23 children died after consuming food, over shortcomings in the implementation of the scheme.
Nagaland Chief Electoral Officer Abhijit Sinha said the violence in Akuluto constituency in Zunheboto district left one dead and two injured.
Buoyed by the formation of governments in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, the BJP is making a bid to expand its footprints in the region.
Nihalani was chosen on the recommendation of Shatrughan Sinha.
Facing the ire of people over the midday meal tragedy, the Bihar government plans to provide printed instructions to school principals about food quality and safety besides painting the norms on the schools walls.
Polling will be held between 7 am and 4 pm, except in some polling stations of the interior districts of Nagaland, where the process is scheduled to conclude at 3 pm. The two states have a 60-member House each, but voting will be held for 59 constituencies in both.
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'Mr Modi would compliment a Nobel Prize winner, but members of his party or the government would not be restrained from either making unfair comments or criticising him for having offered advice to an Opposition political party,' says A K Bhattacharya.
Corporate lending has not slowed down. There is no slowdown in manufacturing and services, says M D Mallya.
The BJP also suspended its state executive council member Kheto Semaparty, who had signed the joint declaration.
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Hundreds of Indian companies are expected to go big, issue public issues and even acquired by top global IT firms.
BJP won 18 of the seats while the TMC won 22 of the seats.
'The CAA should be kept in abeyance, without making it a prestige issue.'
'Laying down a clear policy on the future of illegal migrants will dispel anxieties and help in implementing the CAA, NPR and also the NCR,' suggests former Union home secretary Dr Madhav Godbole.
'AAP wins one of the biggest electoral victories in Indian history.'
From President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit to Rahul and Varun Gandhi, at least 50 parliamentary constituencies will be contested by 'sons and daughters' of politicians of various parties during the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
'The extended Bose family is insisting that the Japanese government must release all the information they have on Bose's ashes. It cannot be forgotten that Bose was in Japanese care when his 'death' occurred. Ultimately, it is the Japanese who hold the secret about what happened to him.'
And no, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani!
Captain Yuvraj Singh fell cheaply in his Ranji Trophy season opener before Uday Kaul and Gurkeerat Singh led Punjab's recovery against Railways on day two of the Group A match, in New Delhi, on Friday.
The Narendra Modi wave seems to have reached the Bengal shores, indicated by the more than two-fold increase in the membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party's state unit.
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