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NEW DELHI: Tej Pratap Yadav, founder of the Janshakti Janata Dal and candidate from Mahua, has fallen to fourth place in trends as counting begins for the Bihar Assembly Elections. According to the Election Commission, LJP (Ram Vilas) candidate Sanjay Kumar Singh is leading with 12,897 votes, ahead of RJD’s Mukesh Kumar Raushan who has…

NEW DELHI: From the Govindganj assembly constituency, the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) candidate Raju Tiwari is leading in the early trends, securing 4,512 votes so far and holding a margin of 2,062 votes. Congress candidate Shashi Bhushan Rai alias Gappu Rai trails behind with 2,450 votes, while Jan Suraaj’s Krishna Kant Mishra stands third…

NEW DELHI: BJP’s Vinay Bihari has moved ahead in the initial trends, with VIP’s RK Pratap Singh and Jan Suraaj’s Sunil Kumar trailing behind him. The seat, part of the Valmiki Nagar parliamentary constituency and a General category assembly segment, has historically been shaped by fierce BJP–RJD contests. In the 2020 Assembly elections, Vinay Bihari…

NEW DELHI: Candidates from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML)L), and the Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) are locked in a close three-way contest in Bihar’s Digha Assembly constituency, one of the largest and most politically significant seats in the state. As polling took place on November 11, 2025, in…

Tej Pratap Yadav in fray from Mahua NEW DELHI: As vote-counting begins today, the spotlight is on the Mahua Assembly constituency in Vaishali district, where Lalu Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav has returned to the fray in a high-stakes battle. The seat, where he made his political debut in 2015, is now being contested…

NEW DELHI: National Statistics Office (NSO) plans to conduct a survey on migration which aims to generate reliable estimates on migration rates, reasons for migration, short-term migration, and other related characteristics of households and individuals across country.Detailed information gathered during the survey will benefit policymakers, planners, researchers, and development practitioners by enabling more targeted interventions…

NEW DELHI: In a significant escalation of its probe into the alleged diversion of around Rs 14,600 crore collected from thousands of homebuyers of Jaypee Wish Town in Noida and other projects, ED on Thursday arrested Manoj Gaur, former chairman and CEO of Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) and ex-MD of Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL).A special…

SRINAGAR: Expanding its crackdown on ‘white-collar terror’, J&K Police’s Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) on Thursday carried out searches at 13 locations across the Valley in connection with the ongoing probe into the Delhi blast case. A police officer confirmed the raids, but did not reveal if anyone was detained.In a related development, State Investigation Agency (SIA)…

NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Thursday firmly denied Congress’ allegations that it has engaged “one of Pakistan’s official lobbying arms” to espouse its interests in the United States.Rejecting the charge, RSS national media and publicity department head Sunil Ambekar said, “The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh works in Bharat and has not engaged any…

Tejashwi Yadav and Nitish Kumar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Leaders across party lines in Bihar went into overdrive on Thursday as the state prepared for the vote counting of the high-stakes assembly election on Friday that will decide whether chief minister Nitish Kumar secures a record fifth term in office.The Election Commission (EC) said elaborate…