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Topic: Bihar

ThePrint photos of the week: 13-19 July, 2025

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

Bike-borne assailants shoot retired health dept official in Bihar, condition critical

Gaya Ji: In a shocking incident, Dr Tapeshwar Prasad, a retired official from the Health Department, was shot and seriously injured by unidentified assailants...

Nitish is not fit to continue as CM, NDA will lose power in Bihar come November—Prashant Kishor

He says people want change and they have to choose between Lalu Prasad-Tejashwi Yadav's 'jungle raj' and 'honest alternative' of Jan Suraaj Party.  

PM Modi to flag off 4 new trains, launch projects worth Rs 7,200 crore in poll-bound Bihar

The PM will also lay foundation stones for doubling of railway lines and NH-319, from Motihari in East Champaran district.

46 detonators, Maoist literature & red rebel uniforms discovered, seized in Bihar’s Jamui

Acting on a tip-off, STF and district police personnel conducted a search operation in Pachkatia forest in Chahara police station area.

No legal, valid ‘citizenship’ document that’s issued—how it puts big question mark on ECI’s Bihar exercise

Current exercise involves an indicative list of 11 documents to be submitted by eligible voters, which ‘may not be proof of citizenship, only identity’. Aadhaar, voter ID not on the list.

SC invokes ‘document starvation’ to suggest EC accept Aadhaar for special roll revision in Bihar

Two-judge Supreme Court bench says it has ‘serious doubts’ whether EC can meet timeline of its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.

Purnea murders rock Bihar: Teen saw mob beat family to death over ‘witchcraft’, lived to tell the tale

5 members of a family of 6 were allegedly murdered by a mob of ‘around 200’ in a village in Purnea Sunday. Police have arrested 3 of 23 named in the minor’s complaint.

Bihar ki beti in Trinidad & Tobago, Madhubani in Argentina—Modi’s poll messaging on foreign tour

The Bihar elections are still a few months away, but Modi's political messaging featured the state during his five-nation tour, first in Trinidad and Tobago, and then in Argentina.

Bihar police arrest 3 accused including minor in witchcraft-related violence after 5 burnt alive

Purnia District Magistrate Anshul Kumar said a case has been registered against 23 accused. Main accused is already in police net.

On Camera

1948 need not define Gaza’s destiny. Arabs and Israelis must learn to live together

When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.

60% increase in India’s carbon emissions by 2050, coal to remain top energy source: BP Energy Outlook

The country will account for 12 percent of global energy demand by 2050 from 7 percent in 2023, adds BP report.

ISKP & Lashkar converging under aegis of Pakistan’s ISI to take on Baloch fighters

ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.