Bharat Ratna awardees list shows Modi govt's commitment towards farmers, downtrodden: ShahUnion Home Minister Amit Shah praised the conferment of the Bharat Ratna on former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan S...
30 Mar, 2024, 04.48 PM IST
PM Modi meets family members of former Bihar CM Karpoori ThakurThe family members of the prominent socialist leader, led by his son Rajya Sabha member and JD(U) leader Ram Nath Thakur, met the prime min...
12 Feb, 2024, 06.06 PM IST
Karpoori Thakur conferred with Bharat RatnaPresident Droupadi Murmu made the announcement on Tuesday, a day before his birth centenary. Thakur was a two-time Bihar CM and served once...
06 Feb, 2024, 01.02 PM IST
Karpoori Thakur: The leader who strode corridors of power like colossus but chose humble rickshaw to meet journalists'Jan Nayak' Karpoori Thakur (people's leader) joins the pantheon of great political leaders like Lal Bahadur Shastri, Pandit Madan Mohan Ma...
25 Jan, 2024, 11.21 AM IST
At JD(U) rally in Patna, Nitish Kumar projects himself as a leader with a differenceThe JD(U) president made a comment to this effect at a party rally here, organised to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of his ideologu...
25 Jan, 2024, 11.18 AM IST
Nitish Kumar thanks PM Modi for 'Bharat Ratna' Karpoori ThakurOn the centenary of former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur's birth, politics intensified in the state following the central government's Bharat Ra...
25 Jan, 2024, 12.39 AM IST
Home minister Amit Shah says 'Modi did garibkaaj a day after Ramkaaj'Addressing the birth centenary celebration of Karpoori Thakur, affectionately called as 'Jan Nayak', Amit Shah said the Modi government has...
25 Jan, 2024, 12.29 AM IST
Why no Bharat Ratna for Savarkar: Shiv Sena (UBT) slams CentreThe Shiv Sena (UBT) criticized the BJP-led Centre for not awarding Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award, to Hindutva ideologue V.D. Sav...
24 Jan, 2024, 02.39 PM IST
How Karpoori Thakur and Mohan Yadav can be BJP's two aces against Nitish & Co's caste politicsBJP's strategic elevation of Mohan Yadav as Madhya Pradesh CM and Bharat Ratna to Karpoori Thakur can counter Nitish Kumar's caste politics...
24 Jan, 2024, 01.42 PM IST
"Country needs real justice, not symbolic politics": Rahul Gandhi on Bharat Ratna to Karpoori ThakurCongress MP Rahul Gandhi welcomed the decision to posthumously confer Bharat Ratna on Karpoori Thakur, calling him an incomparable warrior ...
24 Jan, 2024, 12.46 PM IST
Bharat Ratna award to Karpoori Thakur reflects Modi government's desperation, hypocrisy: CongressCongress welcomes Bharat Ratna for Karpoori Thakur, criticizes Modi govt. for hypocrisy. Thakur championed social justice, Congress calls f...
24 Jan, 2024, 10.17 AM IST
Who was 'Jan Nayak' Karpoori Thakur? The two-time Bihar CM awarded Bharat Ratna posthumouslyKarpoori Thakur, a key figure in Bihar's OBC politics and two-time chief minister, has been awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian ...
23 Jan, 2024, 09.42 PM IST
JDU opposes extension to panel on OBC subcategories“The purpose for which the commission was formed is not getting fulfilled, neither the groups which were to get benefits of reservation are...
22 Jan, 2021, 11.30 PM IST
Nitish Kumar demands quota for EBCs at national levelIn Bihar, the EBCs get 18% and BC 12% reservation. "We demand that similar provision should be made at all India level," said the chief min...
25 Jan, 2016, 12.35 PM IST
Nitish Kumar seeks Bharat Ratna for socialist leader Karpoori ThakurHighlighting the works of the former Bihar chief minister, Kumar said his government was walking on the path shown by the socialist leader
24 Jan, 2016, 09.37 PM IST
Nitish Kumar demands Bharat ratna for Karpoori ThakurKumar said Thakur had died only at an age of 64. "Had he been alive he would have been Prime Minister of the country," the CM said.
24 Jan, 2014, 07.59 PM IST
NCP against Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari VajpayeeAmid growing demand for bestowing Bharat Ratna to veteran BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) did not support...
19 Nov, 2013, 07.47 PM IST