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Topic: Bihar

Why BJP has picked Nitish Kumar’s staunchest critics as his deputies in the new NDA cabinet

Samrat Choudhary & Vijay Kumar Sinha, sworn in as deputy CMs, have been critical of Nitish in the past. BJP's third pick, Prem Kumar, too, had been dumped from NDA cabinet after 2020 polls.

‘Thank you Tejashwi’: Facing possible loss of power in Bihar, RJD puts out full-page ads lauding Dy CM

This comes at a time when Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is likely to exit the Mahagathbandhan and join the BJP-led NDA once again.

Bihar BJP thinks it doesn’t need Nitish Kumar anymore. Ball now in Modi-Shah’s court

Minority view in Bihar BJP is that JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar's return to NDA might help party win 28-30 Lok Sabha seats in the state & 'deliver death blow to INDIA bloc'.

How Bihar parties are fighting it out to claim Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur’s legacy

While BJP goes all out against Lalu, CM Nitish Kumar takes swipe at PM Modi. Other parties also observe birth anniversary of socialist leader.

Why Bharat Ratna is key to BJP’s ‘Karpoori-kamandal’ ploy to stump Nitish & INDIA in LS polls

New Delhi: The posthumous awarding of the Bharat Ratna to two-time Bihar chief minister and Extremely Backward Castes (EBC) icon Karpoori Thakur is being...

Why ex-CM Karpoori Thakur, now honoured with Bharat Ratna, still defines Bihar politics 36 yrs after death

Thakur announced quota for backward castes in 1978, a year before Mandal commission was set up. He was known to be a simple man with a legendary disdain for worldly pleasures.

MP CM Mohan Yadav’s Patna visit — how BJP is showcasing ‘only Yadav CM’ to woo community in Bihar

While BJP spokesperson asserts that a 'family' which took Yadavs for granted will feel heat, RJD says strategy to woo community in Bihar & UP will not fetch results.

Bihar couple & their infant daughter shot dead, police arrest woman’s father & brother

Couple & their infant daughter allegedly attacked with a rod by the woman’s father and later shot dead by her brother, it is learnt. Couple had 'eloped to marry' & later stayed near woman’s family.

Wild overgrowth, glass shards, busted scoreboard — plight of Patna stadium dampens Ranji mood

Deputy to president of Bihar Cricket Association says requested state govt many times to hand over stadium, but to no avail, adds: ‘If govt pays attention, it can be better again.’

Master’s from Harvard, President’s medal, oversaw Sheena Bora probe — CISF’s 1st woman head Nina Singh

The Bihar-born officer, who has been appointed as chief of Central Industrial Security Force, also headed CBI’s special crime zone in the past, when her unit cracked several cases.

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New HAL CMD doesn’t have to be an ‘insider’. Let merit decide

India’s premier defence public sector undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, will have a new Chairman and Managing Director in May 2026. The selection process has...

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.