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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicBihar Assembly election

Topic: Bihar Assembly election

No political party has filed claims or objections on Bihar draft rolls, reiterates EC

EC has received 7,252 claims and objections directly from the electors for the draft roll 9 August on the SIR of the electoral rolls in Bihar.

SC asks EC to submit details of 65 lakh ‘missing’ voters in Bihar draft rolls by 9 August

Advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged 75% of voters who filled the form gave no valid documents and were included based on recommendations by BLOs of the Election Commission.

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.

‘Bihar First, Bihari First’—Chirag Paswan says will contest Bihar polls, backs Nitish for CM

Talking to the media, Paswan said that several parties have benefitted when their national leaders fought state polls.

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.

Late Mohd Shahabuddin’s wife Hina Shahab, son Osama Shahab join RJD

Hina contested elections on an RJD ticket in 2019 for the last time and after that, her relations with the party soured.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?