Pranab Nitish

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  Oil Workers Kidnapped In Arunachal Seen In Video Pleading For Release

  In a video message from an undisclosed location, two employees of an oil drilling company who were kidnapped in Arunachal Pradesh last month have appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Assam's Sarbananda Sonowal to step up efforts to have them released.

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  In Meet With Rahul Gandhi, Nitish Kumar Discusses Charges Against Tejashwi Yadav: Sources

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is in Delhi to attend a dinner hosted by PM Narendra Modi for outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee, met Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi this evening. The conversation between Mr Kumar and Rahul Gandhi comes at a time their coalition in Bihar, the Mahagatbandhan, is in serious trouble amid corruption charge...

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  Nitish Kumar's RSVP For PM Narendra Modi's Dinner Further Tests His Bihar Alliance

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will attend a farewell dinner being hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Delhi's Hyderabad House on Saturday evening for outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee. Ram Nath Kovind, who takes oath as India's next President on Tuesday, will also be present, along with PM Modi's ministers and allies in the ruling Natio...

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  No Offence, But No, Says BJP On President Pranab's 2nd Term: Sources

  Nitish Kumar and co are attempting to force a choice on the government by suggesting that it nominate President Pranab Mukherjee for a second term as a consensus candidate of all parties, top sources in the BJP told NDTV, stating that the opposition must respect the situation as it is today.

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  President Pranab Mukherjee, Repeat Performance? Congress Agrees With Nitish Kumar

  After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pitched a second term for President Pranab Mukherjee, the Congress today indicated that it will support such a move if the President agrees to it. This evening Congress chief Sonia Gandhi meets West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to discuss fielding a common opposition candidate to take on the BJP-led ...

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  Nitish Kumar Backs President Pranab Mukherjee For A Second Term

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today pitched for building a consensus on the next president, suggesting that the BJP should initiate talks with political parties and favouring a second term for Pranab Mukherjee.

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  From Hospital, Sonia Gandhi Works The Phone For President Election

  After being hospitalised for food poisoning, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi rang West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to secure a meeting on Monday in Delhi.

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  An Opposition Candidate For President Sees Sonia Gandhi Back In Charge

  After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the Left's Sitaram Yechury has met Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss jointly fielding an opposition candidate against the nominee of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in the election for President in July. Lalu Yadav of the RJD has said he too will meet Sonia Gandhi, who has deliberately been...

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  As President Pranab Mukherjee Honoured Freedom Fighters At Champaran Satyagraha Anniversary, A Boycott By BJP. Here's Why

  For a large ceremony in Patna featuring President Pranab Mukherjee, senior BJP leaders decided at the last minute that they would not show in because regional leader Lalu Yadav and Congress boss Rahul Gandhi were to be seated on the same stage. The occasion was the -year anniversary of the famous satyagraha or civil disobedience movement that Mahat...

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  Nitish Kumar Explains How He Refused Mamata Banerjee On Notes Ban Protest

  When Mamata Banerjee phoned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar about joining her protest against the notes ban in Delhi recently, his response to her was simple. When President Pranab Mukherjee had signed off on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move, the protest was redundant, he explained to her.

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  Nitish Kumar Meets President, PM Modi On First Visit After Election Win

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today called on President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his first meeting after leading the Grand Alliance to a spectacular victory in Bihar assembly polls last month.

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  A Setback For Nitish Kumar in His Battle to be Chief Minister

  Nitish Kumar today took his show of strength to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, parading 128 legislators to President Pranab Mukherjee this evening to prove that his claim to the post of Chief Minister of Bihar is indisputable.

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  Nitish Kumar Wants Test of Strength, or Else...A Warning.

  Nitish Kumar says that unless he is allowed tomorrow to prove that he has the right to govern Bihar, he will fly to Delhi to meet with President Pranab Mukherjee.

• Kolkata: another schoolgirl allegedly gang-raped days after teen raped twice, burnt alive

  Days after a teenager in West Bengal was allegedly gang-raped twice and burnt alive by men known to the rapists, a schoolgirl has been allegedly gang-raped in the same district.

• End the custom of wearing gowns at convocations, Nitish Kumar urges President Pranab Mukherjee

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today urged President Pranab Mukherjee to end the tradition of wearing gowns at convocation ceremonies of educational institutions.