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Friday, April 10, 2026
TopicBihar Assembly election

Topic: Bihar Assembly election

What Bihar poll results say about BJP’s prospects in Assam, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala

NDA had a much larger social coalition comprising the extremely backward classes, non-Yadav other backward classes, Dalits, upper castes, etc., who brought about landslide victory in Bihar.

Why Tejashwi Yadav failed—Bihar changed, RJD didn’t

RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.

This is how Bihar’s Jeevika didis spent the govt’s Rs 10,000

Out of 1.25 crore Jeevika Mission members, one crore have received the first instalment of Rs 10,000. Here how the beneficiaries in Nalanda district are using the money.

TV news isn’t telling which way Bihar Assembly election will go — only who is unhappy

If it’s 'Mahagathbandhan mein Mahabharat’ for the opposition RJD-Congress, it’s ‘NDA mein Dangal' for the ruling BJP-JDU coalition.

ECI’s voter verification drive in Bihar is tailor-made to keep Dalits, Muslims, EBCs out

Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, and MGNREGA job card—the IDs poor voters actually hold are excluded from ECI's list of documents to prove identity and residence status in Bihar.

Tejashwi flips the script on NDA’s charge of dynasty politics, advises Nitish to ‘form damad aayog’

Appointments to SC commission, women's panel & apex court raise eyebrows, but JD(U) says appointees have been active in politics & Lalu family 'dynasty politics' is different.

How Haryana BJP is crafting a meticulous campaign to woo Bihar-origin voters ahead of polls

It includes compiling data on Bihari migrants, facilitating their travel home during polls, holding events such as Bihar Divas & building association with Chhath Puja organisers.

What’s behind Modi govt’s U-turn on caste census & how it targets Oppn ahead of crucial Bihar polls

The Centre has announced that caste enumeration will be part of the upcoming census, a move seen as an attack on the opposition's key electoral plank of social justice.

How Congress is charting Kanhaiya’s path back to political fray in poll-bound Bihar

Kanhaiya Kumar contested the 2024 Lok Sabha poll from Delhi, but is now planning to be active in Bihar. He is likely to contest the polls but the seat is yet to be finalised.

Two birds with one stone? BJP aims for Luv-Kush vote with district units rejig in Bihar

Party has picked 40 district chiefs, with 18 belonging to ‘upper castes’, its core support base. To draw Kurmi & Kushwaha voters, 10 presidents have been picked from Luv-Kush castes.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.