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Monday, September 8, 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

Trump has forced us to think clearly. New GST slabs are the first sign of change

Thanks to Trump’s sudden decision to target India rather than any other country with massive tariffs, many things that ought to have been done earlier are now falling into place.

Punjab’s paddy farmers are staring at big losses. Why flood impact may spill out of India’s rice bowl

As devastated farmers begin to come to terms with the fallout, 4 lakh hectares of land under paddy cultivation across state is flooded. Punjab is among the biggest contributors to PDS.

IAF set to welcome first 2 Tejas Mk-1As soon, earlier order of 40 Mk 1 yet to be completed

Of the 40 Tejas Mk-1 aircraft ordered—comprising 16 IOC single-seaters, 16 FOC single-seaters & 8 twin-seat trainers—IAF has received 38 with two trainers yet to be delivered.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?