U S -led Coalition

Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar on Sunday took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the ninth time. Mr Kumar's JD(U) has severed ties with MahagathbandhanRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congressforming a coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party

Bihar's ruling coalition partners, the JD(U) and the RJD, put up a united front, reiterating "all is well" in the Opposition's mega INDIA bloc

Bihar's new ruling coalition, Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), on Wednesday brought a no-confidence motion against Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha who is a BJP MLA, a senior JD(U) leader said.

The BJP in Bihar, which has been on a collision course with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) for some time, on Friday asserted that the coalition government will complete its full five-year term.

Voting for the first phase of the three-phase Bihar assembly polls - one of the world's largest electoral exercises to be held in the COVID-19 pandemic - began in 71 of the 243 assembly constituencies of the state this morning. The second phase voting will be held on November 3 and will cover 94 seats and the third phase of polling on 78 seats will...

Angered at a delay in giving permission to prosecute a railway official in a railway scam probe involving Lalu Yadav and his family, Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United has sharply reminded the BJP-led national coalition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's slogan on corruption and demanded that it walk the talk.

Janata Dal (United) today announced it will back Rashtriya Lok Dal candidates for the by-poll to three assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh even as it explores forming a coalition with Ajit Singh's party, Congress and others for the state polls due next year, after the success of the grand alliance experiment in Bihar.

Having steered Bihar on the path of development for a decade now, Nitish Kumar has his task cut out as he begins his third innings as Chief Minister of the backward state while leading a coalition of his JD(U), Lalu Prasad's RJD and Congress.

BJP chief Amit Shah has called the Bihar election a battle between "a coalition of compulsion" and "a coalition of common chemistry and similar ideologies." History and current events, however, present a far more complex web of political relationships. It's complicated.

The five-phased Bihar elections will test a coalition of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), Lalu Prasad's RJD and the Congress against the BJP and its allies. The party hopes to repeat its last year's national elections performance in which its NDA coalition had won 31 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Nitish Kumar will lead an anti-BJP coalition for this year's Bihar Assembly elections, said Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today, thanking Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for nominating Mr Kumar to be the alliance's presumptive chief minister.

On a day when JD(U) severed its ties with NDA, the BJP-led coalition's key partner Shiromani Akali Dal's patron Parkash Singh Badal today said his party was "solidly" behind the BJP, and does not believe in "interfering" in their internal matters.

The coalition between the BJP and the Janata Dal (United) in Bihar creaked again today, with a minister in the government claiming that both parties will contest the national elections separately.

In a resolution adopted on the second and final day of the Janata Dal (United)'s national executive meet in Delhi, the party listed out criteria for the NDA coalition's prime ministerial candidate. Topping the list is the demand that the PM candidate should have a secular image. A strong hint that Narendra Modi will not be acceptable to them for th...

It is the final day today of the Janata Dal (United)'s two-day national executive meet in the capital. Sources in the party say a political resolution which is likely to be passed is expected to reiterate the JD(U)'s position that the prime ministerial candidate of the NDA coalition should be a person with a secular image, an indirect snub to Naren...

Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar on Sunday took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the ninth time. Mr Kumar's JD(U) has severed ties with MahagathbandhanRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congressforming a coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party

Bihar's ruling coalition partners, the JD(U) and the RJD, put up a united front, reiterating "all is well" in the Opposition's mega INDIA bloc

Bihar's new ruling coalition, Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), on Wednesday brought a no-confidence motion against Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha who is a BJP MLA, a senior JD(U) leader said.

The BJP in Bihar, which has been on a collision course with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) for some time, on Friday asserted that the coalition government will complete its full five-year term.

Voting for the first phase of the three-phase Bihar assembly polls - one of the world's largest electoral exercises to be held in the COVID-19 pandemic - began in 71 of the 243 assembly constituencies of the state this morning. The second phase voting will be held on November 3 and will cover 94 seats and the third phase of polling on 78 seats will...

Angered at a delay in giving permission to prosecute a railway official in a railway scam probe involving Lalu Yadav and his family, Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United has sharply reminded the BJP-led national coalition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's slogan on corruption and demanded that it walk the talk.

Janata Dal (United) today announced it will back Rashtriya Lok Dal candidates for the by-poll to three assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh even as it explores forming a coalition with Ajit Singh's party, Congress and others for the state polls due next year, after the success of the grand alliance experiment in Bihar.

Having steered Bihar on the path of development for a decade now, Nitish Kumar has his task cut out as he begins his third innings as Chief Minister of the backward state while leading a coalition of his JD(U), Lalu Prasad's RJD and Congress.

BJP chief Amit Shah has called the Bihar election a battle between "a coalition of compulsion" and "a coalition of common chemistry and similar ideologies." History and current events, however, present a far more complex web of political relationships. It's complicated.

The five-phased Bihar elections will test a coalition of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), Lalu Prasad's RJD and the Congress against the BJP and its allies. The party hopes to repeat its last year's national elections performance in which its NDA coalition had won 31 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Nitish Kumar will lead an anti-BJP coalition for this year's Bihar Assembly elections, said Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today, thanking Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for nominating Mr Kumar to be the alliance's presumptive chief minister.

On a day when JD(U) severed its ties with NDA, the BJP-led coalition's key partner Shiromani Akali Dal's patron Parkash Singh Badal today said his party was "solidly" behind the BJP, and does not believe in "interfering" in their internal matters.

The coalition between the BJP and the Janata Dal (United) in Bihar creaked again today, with a minister in the government claiming that both parties will contest the national elections separately.

In a resolution adopted on the second and final day of the Janata Dal (United)'s national executive meet in Delhi, the party listed out criteria for the NDA coalition's prime ministerial candidate. Topping the list is the demand that the PM candidate should have a secular image. A strong hint that Narendra Modi will not be acceptable to them for th...

It is the final day today of the Janata Dal (United)'s two-day national executive meet in the capital. Sources in the party say a political resolution which is likely to be passed is expected to reiterate the JD(U)'s position that the prime ministerial candidate of the NDA coalition should be a person with a secular image, an indirect snub to Naren...