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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicBihar elections

Topic: Bihar elections

Bihar Cabinet approves proposal for 125 units of free electricity per month to domestic consumers

The Bihar government will also provide financial assistance for installing 1.1-KW capacity solar power plants on rooftops to domestic consumers, it said.

Fear of criminals and cops—Bihar traders say ‘it’s jungle raj’, want Yogi-style justice

Businessman Gopal Khemka’s murder has rattled Bihar traders. With crime rising and police busy chasing liquor, the Nitish Kumar government faces a reckoning just months before Assembly elections.

NDA vs JSP vs Mahagathbandhan—Bihar elections are a litmus test for old & new politics

The Mahagathbandhan is riding on Tejashwi’s momentum. The JSP, while fresh and focused, may not have the structure and wherewithal to compete on par with the alliances.

RJD has an EBC dream in Bihar. It’ll take more than tickets & tokenism

The Extremely Backward Classes, which make up 36 per cent of Bihar’s population, showed their aversion to RJD in 2020. New EBC state president Mangani Lal Mandal may not be enough to break it.

Committed to universal adult franchise, affirms ECI amid Bihar electoral roll revision

ECI posted an image on X highlighting Ar. 326 of the Indian Constitution, which mandates universal adult suffrage, ensuring every Indian citizen above 18 years of age can vote unless disqualified.

Bear-hug diplomacy & the cost of evasion

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

Congress, TMC oppose EC’s ‘special intensive revision’ of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar

Both parties object to the documentation process that people will have to go through to prove their eligibility to vote, and have termed it a 'devious, dangerous' idea.

‘Dreams of winning Bihar polls but can’t manage family,’ Giriraj Singh takes a dig at Lalu Yadav

Speaking at a mock parliament session organised by BJYM, the union minister pointed out how Yadav's son revolted against him and expressed confidence in NDA's win in Bihar.

What Ram Vilas Paswan did to Lalu in 2005 must haunt Nitish in 2025 as Chirag enters poll fray

What if Chirag Paswan also has the numbers to take the opposition’s tally to the majority mark? After all, Paswan has maintained a ‘brotherly’ relationship with Tejashwi, too.

EC slams Rahul Gandhi’s Maharashtra poll rigging claims as ‘unsubstantiated’ and ‘disrespect to law’

The election body further said it had addressed the issues in its 24 Dec 2024 reply to INC, available online, but these facts are being ignored as the claims are raised repeatedly.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

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.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.