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Polls, populism & the pinch: Tightrope walk for NDA as debts weigh down Bihar economy

In 2025-26, Bihar is estimated to spend Rs 1,08,094 cr on committed expenditure, which is 42% of its estimated revenue receipts. This offers little scope for spending on development.

Maharashtra’s alliance circus looks to Bihar template for a script rewrite ahead of local body polls

With alliances forming and dissolving within hours, Maharashtra's local body polls are looking at a maze of confusion. Now both Mahayuti and MVA hope the NDA victory in Bihar can indicate the way ahead.

AAP retains Tarn Taran. But the real winner could be Akali Dal

AAP’s Harmeet Singh Sandhu won by a hefty margin of 12,000 votes, defeating Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD’s) Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa.

In Bihar victory speech, PM Modi warns of another Congress split, tells its allies to ‘be very wary’

Victory has energised the BJP’s cadre in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam, and West Bengal, Modi declares. The states will go to polls in 2026.

Down to single digit: What caused Congress’s undoing in Bihar 

Bihar was central to the party’s ‘vote chori’ allegations amid opposition over EC's electoral roll revision exercise.

Odisha bypoll: Nuapada landslide gives CM Majhi the teeth he has been missing

BJP’s Jay Dholakia swept the Nuapada bypoll with a massive margin, exposing the drift within a weakened BJD and a struggling Congress.

Khesari Lal Yadav’s flop show in Chapra, BJP’s Chhoti Kumari delivers a hit this Friday

RJD candidate is up against Chhoti Kumari of the BJP. The seat has been with the BJP for the past 10 years.

Chirag adds sheen to NDA’s win in Bihar, delivers another blockbuster with 19 seats

The golden run continues since the 2024 general elections when his party had won all five parliamentary seats, a 100 percent strike rate.

Seemanchal stays with Owaisi as NDA sweeps past an INDIA bloc nursing familiar wounds

AIMIM has held its ground in Seemanchal, winning 5 seats, once again denting the INDIA bloc vote, even as the NDA sweeps the Muslim-dominated region.  

Left follows in Mahagathbandhan’s trail, sinks to three seats in Bihar

In the 2020 Bihar Assembly election, CPI(ML)-L won 12 of the 19 seats it contested, and CPI and CPI(M) each won two seats.

On Camera

A shame-faced modesty pervades 1991 reforms. This is strange and inappropriate: Ashok Desai

Liberty is not accepted in India as the ultimate goal of political systems. This is why, for instance, there is so much paranoia about foreign investments, wrote economist Ashok V Desai in 1995.

Goa, Kerala lose sheen as more foreign tourists pick Maharashtra & Bengal, shows RBI data

RBI data shows 26 states and Union Territories couldn’t regain pre-pandemic foreign tourist footfalls in 2024, but domestic tourism surged 27 percent compared to 2019.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.