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Bihar: Nitish wins floor test with 131 votes, Tejashwi calls him shameless

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Had earlier moved a confidence motion in the Bihar Assembly to prove the majority of his new govt LATEST NEWS :    Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday won the trust vote in the Bihar Assembly, with 131 of the 243 legislators voting for him. Amid protests by Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD, Kumar said that that the new alliance of JD(U) and BJP has been built on political opportunism. Speaker Vijay Kumar Chowdhury said the Opposition got 108 votes. Kumar had earlier moved a confidence motion in the Bihar Assembly to prove the majority of his new government. The NDA alliance had submitted a list of 132 MLAs to the governor. These include 71 of JD(U), BJP 53, RLSP two, LJP two, HAM one and three independents. In the 243-member Bihar Assembly, the RJD has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the CPI-ML has three. Yesterday, Nitish and BJP leader Sushil Modi were sworn-in as Bihar Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively, and former was as...

Rs 8,000 cr money laundering racket: ED arrests CA of Lalu's daughter Misa

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Agarwal was accused of converting black money through dubious transactions The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested the chartered accountant of RJD chief Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti in connection with an alleged money laundering case. An ED official told IANS that Rajesh Agarwal was arrested from Delhi for alleged money laundering and involvement in the black money racket. Agarwal was accused of converting black money through dubious transactions with the help of two bothers S.K. Jain and V.K. Jain. The ED had arrested the Jain brothers on March 20. Read this: Windows smashed! Tejas Express vandalised one day before launch At least 90 shell firms were under the ED scanner. Agarwal has also been accused of helping Bharti's husband's company, Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd. The arrest follows the May 16 Income Tax raids at 22 places in and around Delhi in connection with alleged "benami" property deals involving Lalu ...