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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
TopicBihar Assembly Polls

Topic: Bihar Assembly Polls

‘124-yr-old Minta Devi’ is the face of INDIA bloc ‘vote-chori’ protest—’EC found the oldest living human’

Day after being detained while marching to ECI HQ, Opposition MPs staged a protest Tuesday wearing T-shirts printed & the voter's face with ‘124 Not Out’ written on the back.

All options open, says Congress on INDIA bloc considering Bihar poll boycott over ‘tughlaqi SIR’

New Delhi: The Congress Thursday said the INDIA bloc is considering the unprecedented option of boycotting the upcoming Bihar assembly election as it will...

How Bihar is ramping up AB-PMJAY health infra to keep patients from turning to Delhi, Vellore

Bihar spent a third of Ayushman Bharat budget for hospitalisations outside state last year. Efforts on to change that in election year.

Family matters in Bihar’s Dalit politics—Manjhis to Paswans, how kin are rising up the ladder

Months before polls, Bihar govt appointed Chirag Paswan’s brother-in-law Mrinal Paswan as chairperson of Scheduled Caste Commission, & Jitan Ram Manjhi’s son-in-law as its vice chairperson.

Focus on ‘non-RJD space’, but don’t compromise on respect—Congress high command tells Bihar unit

Bihar Congress leaders met party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, LoP Rahul Gandhi & other senior leaders Tuesday to decide on poll strategy. Kanhaiya Kumar was not in attendance.

SubscriberWrites: Prashant Kishore can win elections for other parties but can he deliver for his party

Before Kishore, Indian politicians were the strategists, data scientists, slogan writers, and every skill set needed to win an election. Intuition guided them.

All hail the chief at Republic, Bihar ‘referendum’ on NewsX & Tiwari sings on News Nation

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

Nitish Kumar set to be sworn in as Bihar CM for 7th time as NDA holds off Tejashwi charge

NDA is set to go past majority mark of 122 in cliffhanger election, opposition to fall short by about a dozen seats. RJD & BJP see-saw for single-largest party status.

Crowd-pulling choppers, big rallies and promises — scenes from battleground Bihar

Both BJP-JD(U) and the RJD-led alliances have campaigned aggressively in the state that is going to third and last phase of the assembly polls Saturday.

How can Chirag return to NDA post polls after his anti-Nitish remarks, says JD(U) chief

In interview with ThePrint, JD(U) working president Ashok Choudhary also pooh-poohs Tejashwi Yadav’s promise of 10 lakh jobs, asking how he will get Rs 50,000 crore for it. 

On Camera

Reform and globalisation — India’s dual challenge hold answer to Trump’s tariff turmoil

India can convert the tariff turmoil into an opportunity to position itself as the world’s go-to trade partner. It has the scale and heft, but needs the boldness.

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.

India provides Nepal with military equipment, medical supplies; PM Oli likely to visit next month

New Delhi: India has handed over military equipment, medical supplies, trained dogs and horses to the Nepalese Army Monday, ahead of Prime Minister K.P....

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?