"Ghosts" let loose by Lalu Prasad on the official residence of the Bihar chief minister after RJD lost power in the state, Thursday threatened to cast their spell on the political firmament.  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday unveiled a statue of former Union Minister Arun Jaitley in Patna on his 67th birth anniversary.

Bihar is the latest in the list of states that have declared that the NRC exercise will not take place within their borders. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made such an announcement on Friday.

The OTA, Gaya, which was set up in 2011, "not only provided employment opportunities in the region but also contributed towards economy and sense of security in the area", he added.

After a closed-door meeting with JD(U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here on Saturday, party vice-president Prashant Kishor, who had publicly criticised the party's support to the new citizenship law, said he stood by the "views I have expressed".

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday called for the banning of pornography sites in India, saying that these have a negative influence on the youth in India.

The tongue-in-cheek remark by the RJD leader, who became the leader of opposition in the Bihar Assembly upon losing the deputy chief minister's post, was made in reference to Kumar's action in the wake of a prolonged controversy over money-laundering cases lodged against the younger son of Lalu Prasad.

Nitish Kumar-led party which is running a coalition government with the BJP in Bihar, had on Tuesday pledged support to former Jharkhand minister Saryu Roy, who is contesting as an Independent candidate against Chief Minister Raghubar Das from Jamshedpur (East) constituency.

Nitish Kumar, after the inauguration, also inspected the facilities available in the bungalows -- built under the housing scheme for legislators, an official release here said. A total of 75 duplex bungalows for the MLCs are set to come up on 18.56 acres at R-block Digha road in the state capital

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder,  praised Bihar for efforts to fight poverty, disease. Gates said "few places have made more progress in fighting poverty and disease than Bihar."

The 74-year-old Singh, who once worked at NASA and California University, breathed his last at PMCH after prolonged illness.

Justice V Kameswar Rao said it is not necessary to summon Kumar, who is a defendant in the suit, as the reasoning given for calling him as a witness being so-called 'principal actor' and a bona fide act is "not convincing"

Shortly after Nitish Kumar addressed his party's national council following his reelection as party president for a fresh three-year term, the JD(U) reminded the BJP that the Bihar chief minister has given the saffron party a proportionate representation in the state government.  

Many parts of the Bihar capital were inundated following downpour for three consecutive days from September 27 onwards.

Singh, who has been repeatedly criticising the Bihar government for its "inept" handling of water-logging in several parts of Patna following heavy rainfall, sought the forgiveness of 'Sanatani' (devout) Hindus for the adverse impact of the "man-made" disaster on Durga Puja festivities.

Death toll in the Bihar's rain-related disasters on Tuesday mounted to 30 even as relief and rescue operations gathered momentum.

At the meeting, Kumar issued instructions for the evacuation of people from villages in which waters have entered through swollen rivers and their relocation to relief camps.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that all the villages and hamlets would be connected with metallic roads by next year. The target forms part of "seven resolves" which the state government has adopted as policy of good governance.

Former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, one of the national vice-presidents of the RJD, spoke disapprovingly of the remark made by Yadav jailed founding president Lalu Prasad's younger son at a meeting of the party's minority cell here last week.

Addressing the state council meeting of the JD (U), Nitish Kumar had said his political detractors who "know nothing, are ignorant of even a, b, c of politics but still get lots of publicity".