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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicBihar polls

Topic: Bihar polls

In Bihar, smaller allies seek greater pound of flesh. NDA, Mahagathbandhan feel coalition pangs

Fragmentation of social justice politics has led to emergence of smaller parties without bandwidth to ensure victory but adding to poll numbers when they contest with larger allies.

Debit what comes in (as taxes), credit what goes out (as freebies)

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

JD(U) releases first list of 57 candidates for Bihar assembly elections

The list features state chief Umesh Khushwaha for Mahanar, Bihar Minister for Rural Development Shravan Kumar for Nalanda, Sunil Kumar for Bhore, among others.

Bihar polls: EC issues directions to enforcement agencies to curb use of money, freebies, drugs, liquor

Flying squads, surveillance and video teams will monitor vigilantly any suspected instances of money power or other inducements, ECI said.

Bihar’s folk singer Maithili Thakur joins BJP, likely to contest from Alinagar

At least half a dozen Bhojpuri film and music stars are believed to be seeking party nominations in Bihar, including Khesari Lal Yadav and Akshara Singh.

Red carpet for the Kabuliwala & suing for peace

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

Bihar polls: Jan Suraaj declares second list of candidates for 65 seats

Addressing a press conference, founder Prashant Kishor said that with this, the party has named candidates for 116 of the state’s 243 seats for the elections in November.

NDA’s 101 in Bihar: No ‘big brother’ as BJP, JD(U) to contest equal number of seats

The two NDA partners will contest 101 seats each in the state, while Chirag Paswan’s LJP will contest 29. HAM and RLM to contest six each.

ThePrint photos of the week: Cough syrup horror, Bihar polls schedule & BJP’s protests against TMC

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

Lalu vs the ‘Seshan Code of Conduct’: EC was key player, not umpire, in Bihar polls 30 years ago too

If Rahul Gandhi's charges against ECI seem too strident today, they still pale in front of Lalu Prasad's fulminations against TN Seshan, for whom Bihar was the ultimate challenge.

On Camera

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.