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TopicMahagathbandhan

Topic: mahagathbandhan

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

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.