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TopicNitish Kumar

Topic: Nitish Kumar

Muzzled media to fractured democracy, counting the hidden costs of political victories

As the 2024 Lok Sabha elections draw nearer, the BJP is determined to win at any cost. However, what expense is the country bearing?

Congress can give it back to Nitish Kumar by going solo in 2024 election. Problem is ‘family’

After 2014 and 2019 defeats, Congress has been dumped by most Next-Gen leaders who prefer to keep the states for themselves and also join a 'Congress-mukt' power structure in Parliament.

‘Nitish said BJP was out to finish JD(U), so large-hearted Lalu backed him in 2022’ — RJD’s Manoj Jha

Jha says RJD did not make a mistake in joining hands with Nitish in 2022 as Mahagathbandhan govt gave Lalu’s son Tejashwi the opportunity, as deputy CM, to execute his ideas.

BJP sent Shivraj Singh Chouhan packing. Why would it make Nitish Kumar CM again?

The chaos at the inconsequential Chandigarh Mayoral election shows the absurdity of Indian politics today.

‘A little bit of pressure & Nitishji does a U-turn. We don’t need him,’ says Rahul Gandhi

Speaking during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the Congress leader says there was pressure on CM regarding caste census, adding that to achieve social justice, such ‘X-Rays’ are needed.

Bihar’s Houdini takes a bow & acute case of selective hearing syndrome

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Modi-Shah completing their unfinished 2020 agenda by backing Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar will become eminently dispensable for the BJP after the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP won’t wait for the next Assembly election in 2025 to have its own CM in Bihar.

Rahul Gandhi’s Nyay Yatra enters Bihar, a day after Nitish Kumar quits INDIA bloc & returns to NDA

The Yatra entered Bihar through Kishanganj. The district in the Seemanchal region of the state reportedly has a majority Muslim population and is seen as a Congress stronghold.

Nitish Kumar’s opportunism is condemnable but his enablers are also at fault. It’s BJP

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Amid speculation of Nitish Kumar’s turnaround, Bihar BJP leaders to hold meeting in Patna

The meeting takes place amid speculation that Kumar may rejoin the NDA, an alliance he left in 2022 to join hands with the opposition and form the 'Mahagathbandhan'.

On Camera

Royals to Republicans—Epstein files have exposed fault lines across power circles

Donald Trump, who has nurtured the MAGA movement for the last decade, has been perceived to have lost control over the movement, particularly with the release of Epstein’s records.

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 fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

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.