CP Thakur, RK Sinha file nomination papers for Rajya Sabha

Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 15:16

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders CP Thakur and RK Sinha on Monday filed nomination papers for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar, to be held Feb 7, officials said.

CP Thakur, Jatia, Goel nominated by BJP for RS polls

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 23:53

Former Union Ministers CP Thakur, Satyanarayan Jatia and Vijay Goel are among seven BJP candidates announced by the party for the ensuing biennial Rajya Sabha elections.

Spectre of pre-2000 caste strife looms in Bihar: CP Thakur

Last Updated: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 20:44

BJP`s CP Thakur said spectre of caste strife loomed in Bihar if government failed to take corrective measures to prevent last week`s Maoist attack in Jehanabad in which seven people were killed.

Asaram Bapu should be punished if found guilty: BJP leader

Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 09:59

Asaram Bapu has been accused by a 16-year-old girl of sexually assaulting her at his ashram in Rajasthan`s Jodhpur city.

Spain train driver said he went fast: Witness

Last Updated: Sunday, July 28, 2013, 19:28

The driver of a speeding train that derailed in Spain, killing 78 people, said minutes after the crash that he had been going fast and couldn`t brake, a local resident who rushed to the scene of the accident said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

C.P. Thakur wants JD(U)-BJP alliance to remain intact

Last Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013, 13:07

Senior BJP leader C.P. Thakur expressed hope that the alliance between his party and the Janata Dal (United) remains intact.

Feud in Bihar BJP reaches Delhi

Last Updated: Sunday, February 17, 2013, 18:32

The fissures in Bihar BJP over constitution of new working committee by state president Mangal Pandey have widened.

Thakur ducks question on bigger role for Modi post-Gujarat polls

Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2012, 19:29

Claiming BJP would return to power in Gujarat for fourth, senior BJP leader C P Thakur ducked a question about possibility of Narendra Modi assuming a bigger role in the party at the national level.

Sushma`s endorsement of Modi broad view of BJP: CP Thakur

Last Updated: Sunday, December 2, 2012, 21:49

Bihar BJP chief CP Thakur claimed that Sushma`s endorsement of Narendra Modi as BJP`s pm`s candidate was the "broad view" of the entire party.

CP Thakur disapproves of Modi’s comments on Tharoor`s wife

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 18:05

Senior BJP leader CP Thakur on Wednesday demanded a ban on use of derogatory words by politicians in the public.

`Guj polls will decide Modi’s fate as PM candidate`

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 12:56

Voicing support for Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, BJP’s Bihar unit chief CP Thakur on Tuesday said that the results of the Assembly Elections will decide if the latter would become the NDA`s prime ministerial candidate.