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The counting for 243 Assembly seats in Bihar began at 8 am on Tuesday. The counting is taking place at 55 centres across 38 districts. Harsidhi, Govindganj, Kesaria, Kalyanpur, Pipra, Motihari constituencies fall under Purba Champaran Lok Sabha seat. RJD bagged the Harsidhi and Kesaria constituency in 2015 and Lok Janshakti Party won the Govindganj […]
The fate of brothers Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) will be decided on Tuesday when 94 of the 243 seats in the legislative assembly will vote across 17 districts in the second phase of polling in the Bihar assembly election. Tejashwi, the younger of the two siblings, […]
Ahead of the second phase of Bihar assembly election, Opposition leaders raised the pitch against the ruling NDA and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav accusing the BJP–JD(U) led combine of failing to bring in industries and addressing core issues like unemployment, migration and price rise during its tenure. Addressing over a dozen […]
Congress says Modi believed in ‘distract and rule’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit out at the Congress, accusing it of being a family centric party and ignoring the contributions of country’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He was speaking at an election rally in Samastipur, Bihar. The Congress hit back saying it […]
Leading the NDA charge, PM Narendra Modi flew down to address as many as three rallies where he urged the voters to vote CM Nitish Kumar back to power Curtain came down on October 26 over campaign for 71 Assembly segments of Bihar which go to polls on October 28, in the first phase of […]
Sixteen districts spread over 71 constituencies going to polls in the first phase of assembly election in Bihar have a Covid-19 positivity rate of less than 5%, the state’s health department officials said. But despite the projection of the health department officials, a Central team now on a three-day visit to Bihar has cautioned the […]
In his public meetings, Bihar CM focuses on reservations offered in government jobs and panchayat posts Quite separate from caste arithmetic and loyalties, if there is one constituency that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has courted, it’s been that of women. So much so that his controversial decision to impose prohibition in the State in […]
A unit of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) clashed with a group of Maoists early Thursday morning in the hilly and forest areas of Chakarbandha in Bihar’s Gaya district, around 165 km from the state capital, police said. No casualties or injuries were reported from either side […]
With the Assembly elections in Bihar round the corner, political parties have plunged into preparation with meetings, mulling options for more seats and new alliances. Disgruntled mahagathbandhan ally Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (HAM-S) leader and former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J. P. […]
While the RJD has been out of power for a long time, the BJP may try to dump Nitish Kumar baggage to capture power in Bihar The Assembly elections in Bihar are barely months away but it is still not clear whether they will take place on time or be deferred, as most parties — […]