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NEW DELHI: With NDA and Mahagathbandhan engaged in a game of one-upmanship, Bihar’s weak fiscal situation is set to turn precarious no matter which alliance wins the assembly polls on November 14. Bihar is already in the category of worst-performing states, fiscally, along with Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Assam. Prohibition, in force for almost a…
NEW DELHI: When Rahul Gandhi set out under Bihar‘s unforgiving August sun for his ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’, it was a test of whether he could still find takers in a land where the Congress survives mostly as a fading afterimage. For 16 days, his campaign carved a noisy trail through dusty highways and crowded colonies.Today,…
CHENNAI: Madras HC quashed an FIR against five men accused of creating public disturbance in Coimbatore while watching live telecast of the Ram Lalla consecration event at the Ayodhya temple last year, ruling that gathering for a religious event cannot be treated as an unlawful assembly, reports Sureshkumar K. Justice N Sathish Kumar said the…
J&K Assembly (File photo) NEW DELHI: The first day of the autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly saw sharp exchanges between the National Conference (NC) and the BJP over the role of former governor Satya Pal Malik in the 2019 abrogation of Article 370, during obituary references to him.Malik, who passed away in…
NEW DELHI: Congress is rushing senior politician Ashok Gehlot to Patna for a meeting with RJD scion Tejashwi Yadav to resolve Bihar assembly election-related issues, ranging from “friendly fights” to manifesto release and campaign plan. Opposition sources said Congress general secretary KC Venugopal held a discussion with Tejashwi, following which Gehlot, state in-charge Krishna Allavaru…
NEW DELHI: A push for social engineering in search of additional votes appears to have given way to the governing NDA focusing on consolidation of its traditional support base for the Bihar assembly polls. This turn is most telling in the significant cut in the number of Yadav candidates fielded by its two biggest constituents,…
PATNA: Just a fortnight before the first phase of polling in Bihar, partners in the INDIA bloc, which seemed to be in a disarray till Sunday, appeared going into the damage-control mode on Monday with some withdrawing candidates against each other on certain seats.RJD announced its list of 143 candidates, leaving the remaining 100 for…
Samrat Choudhary, Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.The first list includes the names of 71 candidates. Key points Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary to contest from Tarapur. Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha to contest from Lakhisarai….
NDA, INDIA bloc race to complete poll pacts PATNA/NEW DELHI: As Bihar’s governing NDA and opposition INDIA bloc engaged in hectic seat-sharing talks on Tuesday, a day after the Election Commission announced the two-phase assembly poll dates, the opposition alliance was expected to induct two more allies – Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and ex-Union minister Pashupati…
NEW DELHI: In the high-stakes showdown for Bihar assembly polls, NDA, helmed by BJP and CM Nitish Kumar’s JDU, is expecting a resounding endorsement of its “double engine” governance, claiming to have lifted the state from ‘Jungle Raj’ quagmire to the cusp of ‘Viksit Bihar’. Home minister Amit Shah said on Monday that NDA government…
