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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicBihar elections

Topic: Bihar elections

Nitish Kumar’s alliance crisis and ‘scriptwriters’ of Hathras conspiracy theories

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

‘LAC’ at Hathras and who is pulling Chirag Paswan’s strings in Bihar

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

Polling officers to deliver forms for postal ballots to elderly in Bihar, says EC

Forms will also be delivered to those with disabilities and are part of the Election Commission’s efforts to make the procedure to opt for postal ballots more convenient ahead of the Bihar polls.

Bihar poll nominations open, but neither Grand Alliance nor NDA can agree on seat-sharing

While RJD insists on offering Congress just 60 seats out of 243, NDA is unable to convince LJP president Chirag Paswan to take 20 seats and stay in alliance.

Will fight Bihar polls with NDA allies JD(U) & LJP, under Nitish Kumar’s leadership, says BJP

After a meeting of party leaders, including Amit Shah and JP Nadda, BJP general secretary Bhupender Yadav said talks on seat-sharing arrangement will be finalised in a few days.

Shiv Sena is ready with another ‘sons of the soil’ ploy — this time for poll-bound Bihar

Shiv Sena is looking to contest in 100 of Bihar's 243 seats. Its campaign pitch will be that Biharis are being driven out as JD(U)-BJP govt has not been able to create jobs.

30,000 central security personnel to be deployed for Bihar elections

Central Armed Police Forces and Railway Protection Force personnel have been ordered to be withdrawn immediately from various units, including the borders, for deployment.

If Modi is a true reformer, he’ll bury Vodafone ghost and campaign on reforms in Bihar

No politician sees economic reform as a vote-catcher; it’s the old, povertarian economy that gets votes. Can Modi bring farm and labour reforms centre-stage?

Decision to hold Bihar polls a leap of faith, not leap in the dark, says CEC Sunil Arora

Defending the Election Commission's move, Arora referred to the recent JEE-NEET exams, saying thousands of candidates across India came out to write the test.

Bihar assembly polls to be held in 3 phases from 28 October, results on 10 November

Phase 1 of the Bihar assembly elections will see voting on 28 October, phase 2 on 3 November and phase 3 on 7 November, the Election Commission said.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.