Santosh Singh

Citizenship Amendment Bill in Rajya Sabha today: The Bill, which was cleared by the Lok Sabha with a 311-80 margin at 12.02 am Tuesday, seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslims who entered the country from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan until December 31, 2014.

The two-day national convention of the RJD —- which concluded on Tuesday —- also hailed the election of senior leader Jagdanand Singh as state party president and re-election of Lalu Prasad as RJD national president.

A villager could earn between Rs 12,000 and Rs 20,000 per month working in the factories. Of the 29 victims from Bihar, 11 are from Samastipur. The rest are from Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Sitamarhi, Saharsa, Araria and Supaul.

The survey was ordered after the maximum cases registered under the Public Grievances Redressal Act, 2015, were found to be encroachment-related.

In 2018-19, we had sold fertilisers worth Rs 380 crore. We also ensure that we have enough stock and there is no law and order problem, says SK Singh Chairman,BISCOMAUN.

Lalu filed his nomination from jail, with sons Tejashwi and Tej Pratap Yadav, along with Bihar RJD chief Jagdanand Singh and senior leaders Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Ramchandra Purve present.

Each day of the yatra will see a public meeting on environment preservation and planting of trees under the ‘Jal, Jivan and Hariyali’ mission — recently launched by the Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

On Wednesday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar refused the RLSP’s demand, saying the state “would not give land and that the Centre should purchase it.”

Jagdanand Singh, a former state Irrigation minister and a highly respected leader in RJD, is set to be elected unopposed on Wednesday. If elected, he will replace Ramchandra Purve.

The Centre had in August last year sanctioned 13 new Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country, two of them in Bihar. However, it had clarified in the proposal stage in 2017 that the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan rules did not allow seats to be reserved for local residents.

The government was responding to the court’s question as to how it can hear such a large number of liquor cases. More than 40,000 bail pleas are pending in the HC alone.

Under the head “child participation” there will be schemes at elementary and secondary school levels on sports, debates and seminars and other extracurricular activities.

On Day One, 11 pucca houses, built over Badshahi Nala running between the city and suburban Naubat town, were demolished.

According to the government’s direction, a district magistrate has to preside over four meetings of the committee every month and ensure implementation of sundry recommendations of the committee.

In 1989, as a 35-year-old Sah Sangathan Mantri of the VHP, Choupal, along with a thousand other people from various parts of Bihar had boarded “trains, cars and trucks” to reach Ayodhya.

Kushwaha said the Grand Alliance is in “reboot” mode. “It is true that the Grand Alliance did not show solidarity in the last Asssembly bypolls..but we have learnt from the mistakes and are trying to reboot the alliance.”

On the other hand, the CPI and CPI (M) agreed to participate in a protest rally of alliance partner Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) later this month, signalling the possible entry of the Left into the opposition alliance.

The letter added, “If there is a high-level inspection... you may find complicity of engineers and contractors.”

Reiterating the party’s tie-up with the JD(U), Nadda said the NDA would return to power in Bihar with a majority in the Assembly elections.