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TopicBihar election

Topic: Bihar election

‘How many votes did you get?’ SC raps Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj for plea seeking Bihar repoll

The party chose to withdraw the plea, with liberty to approach Patna High Court, after Supreme Court questioned why the party had not approached the HC.

This is how cash transfers are being discussed by global scholars

Dismissing unconditional cash transfers through the parochial logic of ‘unearned assistance is undeserving’ narrows the space for policy innovation and restricts possibilities for social mobility.

SubscriberWrites: What the outcome in Bihar portends for Kerala

These are early days post the election results in Bihar but the tremors are resounding in far flung Kerala which is poised to head for assemble elections in 2026.

Hey AI, how do I win an election? & Blackout poetry by Trump (featuring the Eptsein files)

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

ThePrint photos of the week: Red Fort blast, Surendra Koli’s exit from jail, & ‘phir se Nitish’ in Bihar

In PhotosOfTheWeek we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

Scenes at BJP HQ after Bihar smash hit: An unfurled ‘gamcha’ & Modi’s roar—’garda uda diya’

The NDA registered a historic win in Bihar polls Friday. Several BJP leaders gathered at party headquarters in Delhi for the celebrations.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

The old M-Y, Muslim-Yadav, is clashing with a new axis.

‘Asked Bihar govt about Rs 62k cr power plant scam, was told all hunky-dory’—ex-Union minister RK Singh

R.K. Singh, in conversation with ThePrint, says he isn't one to stay silent on accusations over Bhagalpur plant being awarded to Adani Power.

Is Prashant Kishor the Kejriwal of Bihar? Yes, but not really

Arvind Kejriwal always played to the gallery promising the moon.But Prashant Kishor has been ‘brutal’ in telling the people that they have to blame themselves for the misrule in Bihar.

Between idealism & survival: The Left’s long life in Bihar & its electoral pragmatism

Despite criticism, pragmatism makes the Left endure in Bihar as seen in the 2020 poll results & that too at a time when its existence is restricted to small pockets in India.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.