Departmental proceedings have also been initiated against him.
'A delay of two years has happened, but stretching it to 2024 is a bit too far.' 'And we do not know about 2024 also.'
Prachanda took the oath of office and secrecy from President Bhandari at an official ceremony at Shital Niwas.
The opposition leaders also accused the government of violating Constitutional norms by not inviting President Droupadi Murmu to the event.
In a dramatic turn of events, Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' was appointed as the new prime minister of Nepal by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday.
This is the fifth time that Nitish will be the chief minister of Bihar and this will be his third consecutive term.
Altogether 160 MLAs voted in favour of the confidence motion while no vote was cast against the same.
"His elder brother Raj Kishan was a very talented cricketer. But then the parents needed to take a call that one boy would pursue sport and the other education. So Raj, being the elder sacrificed and pursued a medical degree.
A woman along with her five children was burnt alive in Raghopur block of Bihar's Vaishali district in the wee hours Sunday for refusing to withdraw a theft case against three persons, police said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has promised voters that he will end the rampant corruption in the state if he returns to power.
Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwani Choubey and his family, who were stranded in a temple in Kedarnath, have been rescued and brought to Dehradun by a helicopter on Thursday.
'We are alive only because of these border bunkers,' say residents.
Three days after the arrest of a top Indian Mujahideen operative from a village in Bihar, a joint team of the National Investigation Agency and Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad raided another village in the state on Friday in search of another IM cadre, police officials said.
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The death toll in Bihar floods today mounted to 64 with over 33 lakh people spread across 13 districts affected by the deluge.
The Opposition RJD, BSP and the Left parties walked out of the Bihar Assembly to protest rejection of their notice of adjournment motion over presence of "sleazy" content on the official website of the state government. Noisy scenes were witnessed in the House when Speaker Uday Narain Chaudhary after reading out the notice given by RJD's Shyam Rajak and others rejected it, saying it was not in order.
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