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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicBihar

Topic: Bihar

Jungle raj vs clean politics — Anand Mohan’s release sets stage for Bihar’s 2024 battle

Nitish Kumar's govt ensuring the release of a murder convict looks like an apparent bid to garner Rajput votes.

As PK’s Jan Suraaj yatra meanders through Bihar, 1st electoral success spurs hope of ‘impact in 2025 polls’

Prashant Kishor's outfit tasted electoral success for the first time in the Bihar legislative council bypolls earlier this month. But rivals don't see the outfit as a real threat.

‘Mockery of justice’: IAS Association hits out as ex-MP convicted of DM’s murder freed after Bihar rule tweak

Indian Civil and Administrative Service (Central) Association says change in rules that led to Anand Mohan Singh’s release is a ‘dilution’ that causes ‘erosion in morale of public servants’.

IAS officer lynched by mob. 30 yrs on, a statue, angry cadre, and a smiling CM with the killer

CM Nitish Kumar's decision to amend Bihar Prison Manual and facilitate the release of ex-MP Anand Mohan, the only convicted killer of Dalit IAS officer G Krishnaiah, has scratched old wounds anew.

Slain IAS officer’s wife ‘shocked’, as Nitish govt releases ex MP who ‘instigated’ G. Krishnaiah’s lynching

Patna: Hours after the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government Monday issued orders for the release of controversial former Lok Sabha member Anand Mohan Singh from...

Facing Nitish-Tejashwi in 2024, BJP’s eyeing alliance with smaller parties in Bihar ‘for caste-based votes’

With 17 sitting MPs, BJP has 23 Lok Sabha seats to distribute. Party could be looking to re-adopt its 2014 when it fought without JD(U) and with smaller parties as allies.

No caste without code—Bihar is counting and writing a new identity politics

'Maatha pagal ho gaya hai' — Why Bihar's caste census is making everyone lose their mind.

‘Discriminatory’: Activist questions inclusion of ‘transgender’ as category in Bihar caste census, moves HC

Petition submitted in Patna High Court says allocating a code to transgender people alongside caste categories is a violation of their fundamental rights under Constitution.

‘Scale of violence unprecedented’ — shock & confusion after ‘sand mafia’ attack on officials in Bihar

A video that went viral shows woman officer, part of a team of 3, being dragged & beaten up in Bihta town. Director of mines dept puzzled by locals' support for illegal sand miners.

‘Poor are dying’ — Nitish makes U-turn, announces Rs 4 lakh ex gratia for hooch victims’ families

Compensation to cover deaths since 2016, when sale & consumption of booze was banned. BJP's Sushil Modi says CM made this decision as anti-liquor law was politically affecting him.

On Camera

How Gen-Z is changing the violent extremist landscape online

The evolving extremist threat now hinges on young people online, demanding new strategies beyond traditional counter-terror models.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.