A former aide of Prashant Kishor, Shekhar is up against BJP's Ratnesh Kushwaha, who replaced seven-time MLA Nand Kishore Yadav in this prestigious constituency.
Women-centric schemes, promised by parties ahead of polls in multiple states, have seen eligibility tweaks, budget cuts, payment delays. Haryana's Lado Lakshmi is taking similar trajectory.
LDF setting the tone for Assembly polls expected next year. Already CM Pinarayi Vijayan has declared the state free of extreme poverty. Opposition has dismissed the claim as an ‘election stunt’.
In an interview to ThePrint, during a campaign trail in Darbhanga, singer-politician dismisses 'outsider' tag. Says, 'I am their daughter, it doesn't matter what people say.'
Ahead of Bihar Assembly elections, locals in Sitabdiara, where the Janata Party leader was born, say politicians keep visiting but no one has done anything to improve their living conditions.
In campaign, BJP bigwigs Amit Shah & Yogi Adityanath had raised spectre of RJD lawlessness. Shahabuddin’s son Osama will be hoping to bring luck to the family in its third attempt.
Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.
Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector.
In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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