Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today expressed anxiety over the incessant rain in Tamil Nadu and attributed the natural disaster to climate change even as his Deputy Chief Minister, Tejaswi Yadav, announced donating his first salary to the victims of the floods.

New Delhi: Janadhikar Party supremo and Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav yesterday raised protocol issue when Finance Minister Arun Jaitley along with other ministers got on to the stage for MoU signing for setting up multi-crore locomotive plant in his constituency.

Patna: Seven-time MLA and ex-minister Prem Kumar was yesterday unanimously elected as Leader of the BJP Legislature Party in the newly-constituted 16th legislative Assembly.

Patna: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi questioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's silence over breaking of law by ruling Grand Secular Alliance MLAs and leaders and their supporters.

Mau: In an embarrassment to the NDA government at the Centre on the eve of the Winter Session of the Parliament, a BJP MP yesterday said that price rise was a 'major' factor behind his party's defeat in the recent Bihar Assembly elections.

Patna: JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar who was sworn in as Bihar Chief Minister yesterday for fifth time, kept the Home portfolio with him, while Lalu Prasad's younger son Tejaswi Yadav was named the Deputy Chief Minister.

Patna: Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar will take oath today as Bihar's Chief Minister again, watched by a galaxy of national leaders ranged against the BJP.

Patna: The four-day Chhath Puja ended today in Bihar with millions of people taking a dip in rivers and other water bodies to offer prayers to the rising sun.

Patna: Launching a frontal attack on the party leadership, BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha today said those with 'vested interests' are refusing to learn lessons from the Bihar debacle and asserted that no one has the guts or DNA to tick him off, an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Patna: Bitter war of words between NDA and JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance rang down the curtains on the campaign for the penultimate phase of polling for 55 seats in Bihar Assembly elections on November 1.

Patna: Four voters, including two women were attacked and injured by a monkey as they stood in queue at a booth at Bhaktiyarpur where Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar cast his vote yesterday.

Purnia: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi was arrested yesterday on charge of violation of Model Code of Conduct and later released on bail in Bihar's Purnia district, an official said.

Patna: BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi yesterday alleged the grand secular alliance is hatching a conspiracy to take away five percent reservation quota of the OBCs and give it to minorities to further its vote bank politics.

New Delhi: Ahead of third phase of polling in Bihar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday said the outcome of the state election will not be a referendum on Centre but expressed confidence that BJP will sweep the next two phases.

Patna: The Third Front in Bihar was jolted in the midst of the Assembly polls as Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) yesterday decided to walk out of the grouping citing 'pro- BJP statements' by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Patna: Buoyed by 57 percent voter turnout in the first phase of polling on 49 constituencies in Bihar, BJP national spokesperson Syed Shahanwaz Hussain yesterday said the NDA will get a decisive mandate in the assembly polls with two-thirds majority.

New Delhi: Poll authorities in Bihar have sought details over allegations that Union Minister Giriraj Singh compromised voters' secrecy after a photo went viral showing him casting his vote at a polling booth.

Patna: The high-stake Bihar Assembly election began today with voting starting at 7 am in 49 seats, spread over 10 districts, in the first of the five phases of elections amid elaborate security arrangements.

Patna: The RLSP yesterday differed with its ally BJP over the ban on cow slaughter in Bihar if the NDA wins the assembly polls and forms the next government.

New Delhi: Notification for the fourth phase of the Bihar Assembly elections will be issued today and the last day for filing of nomination papers is the till  October 14.