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Topic: Bihar

Disinvestment, Delight Marketing and a maze of shady deals put Lalu family in the dock

The roots of the latest charges go back to 2005, the year the Railways – under Lalu as minister – decided to lease out its hotels to private companies for maintenance. TALHA ASHRAF

Alcohol 0%, populism 100% v/v

Nitish Kumar confirms the rising phenomenon of maximum populism in Indian politics — a consensus paving the road to disaster.

Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.

Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019

BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019.

Narendra Modi – candidate to PM

Why the prime minister's legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as personality contests.

Pulping the Modi script on Muslims

How BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into 'secular' basement.

Gen gana mana of youth

Aspiration screams out of every billboard in Bihar, and could well decide who gets to rule the state, come 8 November.

Huggies diapers in Vaishali, Muslim-Dalit IIT-Jee coalition

Bihar is the cradle of India's post-1975 politics. The JP movement that provoked the Emergency and started the process of the Congress party's decline,...

The chief in chief minister

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has attracted the many backward castes, while embracing the BJP and its upper caste voters, and yet comforting the Muslims, and in the process devastating Lalu Prasad.

A mandate for Nitish Hope Kumar

With his emphatic victory in 2005 Bihar elecrion, Nitish Kumar proved again that writings on the wall do not lie.

On Camera

New labour codes are a simplification that’s been long overdue. Its a strategic shift

Imposition of formal rights and digital compliance mechanisms introduces new expectations for both employers and workers. This transition will require sustained awareness efforts.

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.

Tejas crash: Amid taunts from across border, a Pakistani pilot’s brother voices shared grief & solidarity

Speaking to ThePrint, Salman Akram urges dignity in tragedy, recalling the loss of his brother, Wing Commander Nauman Akram, in similar crash & the mockery his family faced after.

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.