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Facing Nitish-Tejashwi in 2024, BJP’s eyeing alliance with smaller parties in Bihar ‘for caste-based votes’

With 17 sitting MPs, BJP has 23 Lok Sabha seats to distribute. Party could be looking to re-adopt its 2014 when it fought without JD(U) and with smaller parties as allies.

Breach of protocol? Why Dehradun DM, SSP were ‘punished’ over vehicle for Droupadi Murmu

Uttarakhand govt transferred officials for alleged failure to provide ‘proper’ car for NDA presidential nominee’s airport travel. Officials in question blame airport director.

Shark-remora bond defines BJP’s ties with allies. Bihar’s ‘Son of Mallah’ learns the hard way

From NPP in Manipur to BPF in Assam and now VIP in Bihar, BJP has maintained a track record of losing allies. And it is not bothered.

Bihar BJP livid with ally Mukesh Sahani, seeks his removal for attacking PM Modi, CM Yogi

The Bihar unit of BJP wants Mukesh Sahani to be removed from the Nitish Kumar govt, upset with his antics. JD(U) maintains silence while Sahani remains defiant.

UP polls could see BJP allies split the important Nishad vote, hurt party’s bid to return

Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) from neighbouring Bihar enters UP poll race, offers to partner with Nishad Party in UP. However, Nishad Party wants a meatier role.

Why VIP patients, not just Donald Trump, are headaches for doctors

Any physician who’s ever rendered medical advice or hospital care to a prominent person probably empathises with Trump’s medical team.

Kind employer, father, globetrotter: How his friends know ‘Pink Pants’ Ashish Pandey

Friends of Ashish Pandey, who made headlines after pulling a gun on a couple at a Delhi five-star hotel, say the media has been unfair to him.

Even pink pants can’t make VIP brats decent human beings

Ashish Pandey & Co. appear to be ‘woke’ — his pink pants are very metrosexual. Yet he totes a gun, while his friends use ‘transsexual’ and ‘#MeToo’ as insults.

Judges who uphold equality in court shouldn’t be asking for separate lanes at toll plazas

Why should judges and other so-called VIPs not wait in line at toll plazas just like everyone else?

On Camera

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.