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Friday, September 12, 2025
TopicBihar Assembly Polls

Topic: Bihar Assembly Polls

No Question Hour, Zero Hour as Bihar holds 1-day assembly session, the last before polls

Around 12 bills and the supplementary budget was passed by the Bihar assembly without a single question being asked.

All eyes on EC as opposition chorus to defer Bihar polls gets louder but BJP, JD(U) look set

BJP says RJD doesn’t want election now as it fears of losing, while opposition is asking why ruling alliance wants the exercise when people are dying due to Covid.

EC won’t extend postal ballot facility to people over the age of 65 in Bihar

Opposition parties had raised concerns, even calling the proposal ‘unconstitutional’. But EC has cited logistical constraints for not extending the facility.

Ram Vilas Paswan, ‘weather scientist of Indian politics’, fights a do-or-die battle in Bihar

Ram Vilas Paswan has been part of every coalition government at the Centre since 1989, but his political stocks in Bihar have only been dwindling.

Holding Bihar polls amid Covid will put people at risk, turnout may be low: Chirag Paswan

LJP chief & Lok Sabha MP Chirag Paswan has urged Election Commission to think and then take a decision that will be beneficial for the people at large.

Bihar poll officer suggests toothpicks for voting, khadi gloves in booths in state elections

Bihar Chief Electoral Officer R. Srinivasa says his office has sent several proposals to Election Commission to ensure voters adhere to Covid safety norms during polls due this year.

Digital polls in Bihar will meet the same fate as demonetisation, lockdown: Kanhaiya Kumar

Kanhaiya Kumar also says amid increased consciousness about the issues facing the poor, opposition parties must band together in their support.

Bihar has a lot to lose due to Covid crisis, but Nitish Kumar is the most relaxed CM

JD(U) president and BJP ally Nitish Kumar has been remarkably unaffected by migrants' plight, months before the assembly election in Bihar.

Bihar like Europe by 2030? London-returned CM ‘candidate’ promises, but no one’s buying it

Pushpam Priya Choudhary, a London-educated woman from a political family in Darbhanga, has left Bihar stunned with her 2020 'candidature' announcement.

Prashant Kishor accused of plagiarism, taken to court by ‘Congress’ strategist Sashwat Gautam

Sashwat Gautam, poll strategist working for Congress, has alleged that content for Prashant Kishor’s 'Baat Bihar Ki' campaign was plagiarised from his 'Bihar Ki Baat' initiative.

On Camera

Coup, conspiracy & the foreign hand—What Indian TV news channels saw in Nepal this week

‘Gen Z v/s Govt’ TV news coverage went for two days—not sure about the source of the telecast from Kathmandu since no credit was given.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

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?