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NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, a seasoned BJP campaigner and prominent OBC neta with extensive organisational experience, will be in charge of the party’s campaign for the Bihar elections likely in November. He will be assisted by Union water resources minister and Gujarat BJP chief C R Patil and UP deputy chief minister Keshav…
NEW DELHI: In what could prove a game-changer in the Bihar polls, PM Narendra Modi will launch via video-conferencing on Friday Bihar’s Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana and directly transfer Rs 10,000 each into the bank accounts of 75 lakh women across the state.Officials said the scheme was aimed at making women “atmanirbhar” (self-reliant) and promoting…
NEW DELHI: It’s yatra season in Bihar, as the state gears up for the upcoming assembly elections. After the Mahagathbabdhan’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” which was led by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav’s ongoing “Bihar Adhikar Yatra”, it is now Asaduddin Owaisi, the chief of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), who is leading his party’s ‘Seemanchal…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party announced poll in-charges for Bihar, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal on Thursday.The dates for the election have not been announced yet, but the BJP has appointed party leader Dharmendra Pradhan as its in-charge for the Bihar election. Party’s CR Paatil and Keshav Prasad Maurya are appointed as co-incharges.For the…
(Image credits: Screen grab from video posted by X @PIB_India) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the construction of the four-lane Sahebganj-Areraj-Bettiah section of NH-139W in Bihar under the Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) at an estimated cost of Rs 3,822.31 crore. Spanning 78.942 km, the project will improve connectivity between Patna and Bettiah and link…
NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee on Wednesday slammed the Centre’s foreign policy, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘huglomacy’ has backfired and left India diplomatically isolated, unable to secure its national interests. Congress top brass met in Patna for the party’s first post-Independence Working Committee meeting in Bihar, and resolutions were adopted at the meeting.The…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday declared that his party is “ready for alliance with RJD,” sending a formal letter to Bihar’s leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav seeking entry into the Mahagathbandhan ahead of the upcoming assembly elections. These remarks come as Owaisi began his Bihar campaign with the four-day “Seemanchal Nyay Yatra”…
Asaduddin Owaisi (ANI image) NEW DELHI: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi will kickstart his party’s Bihar Assembly election campaign with a four-day “Seemanchal Nyay Yatra” from September 24 to 27 in the Seemanchal region of the state.According to a release from AIMIM on Tuesday, the Yatra will begin from Kishanganj and cover various Assembly constituencies in…
Rahul Gandhi with Tejashwi Yadav and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad during the Voter Adhikar Rally in Sasaram. NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in Bihar was a picture-perfect show of unity – with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD‘s Tejashwi Yadav joining hands to unleash a coordinated offensive against the Election Commission and the…
