After 20 years of Nitish rule, Bihar remains India’s worst-performing state overall, ranking among the lowest in health and education despite massive budget increases.
Liquor trade has been flourishing in Bihar despite a ban since April 2016. Procuring alcohol is a punishable offence, yet the law has served as little impediment to the trade.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
In Karnataka, not only roads, but also classrooms and clinics have huge cracks.