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TopicMahagathbandhan

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In race to win over Jeevika Didis, Tejashwi’s Bihar manifesto looks to one up NDA with big promise

Mahagathbandhan manifesto also promises restoration of OPS for govt employees, Rs 2,500 per month to eligible women under Mai-Bahin Maa Yojana, toddy exemption for prohibition law.

Secular card, Seemanchal link & other factors in Bihar as Owaisi’s AIMIM seeks tie-up with RJD

Four of five AIMIM leaders who won 2020 polls defected to RJD. Offering to join alliance, AIMIM says it's ready to forget & start afresh.

Nitish loses his cool at meeting with allies, says some from Mahagathbandhan ‘in touch with BJP’

Bihar CM lashed out at RJD’s Sunil Kumar Singh as well as JD(U) MLA Maheshwar Hazari & Congress MLA Ajit Sharma, it is learnt. BJP has claimed that a rebellion is brewing in JD(U).

Tejashwi’s seal of approval, Lalu on virtual mode: Grand Alliance rally underlines importance of Nitish

Show of strength comes amid buzz created by RJD MLA saying that Nitish would pass on CM's chair to Tejashwi in March. At rally held the same day, Amit Shah hit out at Bihar CM.

Why Nitish is wary about Owaisi’s AIMIM making a mark in Bihar — ‘it can wreck us’

Patna: Asaduddin Owaisi, the chief of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), seems to be giving the jitters to the Nitish Kumar-led grand alliance in...

Decline in popularity main reason why Nitish Kumar snapped ties with BJP, says Sushil Modi

He is unstable and unpredictable, and his agenda is to break the RJD, says Bihar CM’s once close friend in an interview.

Why Prashant Kishor’s lunch meet is giving Modi rivals a taste of 2024

An anti-BJP Mahagathbandhan minus Congress for 2024 isn’t a bad idea. But a pre-poll umbrella of parties with influence over 300 seats can be a formidable entity, theoretically.

Congress is the new ‘vote-cutter’ in Indian politics

Maximum harm to TMC contradicts Rahul Gandhi's claim of 'saving the idea of India'.

Not just in Bihar, Congress has ‘pulled down’ allies in these other states too

The Congress won 19 of the 70 seats it contested in the Bihar assembly elections, while ally RJD emerged as biggest player in state and Left did well too.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.