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NEW DELHI: It may be the first time in three decades that RJD doesn’t have a single member in Rajya Sabha when the next Bihar assembly elections come around in 2030.The party now has five members in the upper house, but it will gradually lose these seats even if a non-NDA party – like AIMIM…

NEW DELHI: Eight personnel were injured in an accidental blast at the Nowgam police station in Srinagar late Friday night, killing six people and injuring 27 — mostly policemen and forensic officials, PTI reported.The explosion occurred while police were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives seized recently in the ‘white-collar’ terror module case….

Pune: Former leader of opposition and Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar on Friday said BJP had deliberately brought out the Mundhwa land deal issue to push its Mahayuti partner, NCP chief Ajit Pawar, on the backfoot before the civic polls.Wadettiwar said, “Ajit Pawar-led NCP has been defamed in the Mundhwa land deal issue and it is…

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi delivered his first response to the Congress Party’s poor performance in the Bihar assembly election, describing the contest as “unfair from the very outset” and insisting that the party, along with the wider INDIA alliance, will undertake a detailed review of what went wrong. In a post on X,…

Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…

Women outshine men in voter turnout In the 2025 Bihar election, two headline-grabbing outcomes have captured the spotlight: a sweeping victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and a record voter turnout unseen in more than seventy years. Yet, the most defining aspect of this election may well be who turned out to vote and…

India Autism Center celebrates children’s day with a kitchen takeover and sit-down supper The India Autism Center (IAC) marked Children’s Day on Friday with a sit-down supper prepared and served by children on the autism spectrum. The event, held on 12 and 13 November, involved more than 30 participants from the Amrit Somani Memorial Center,…

NEW DELHI: “Bihar ke logon ne garda uda diya,” declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first address after National Democratic Alliance (NDA) secured a historic win in Bihar Assembly Elections on Friday. Hailing “Chhathi Maiyya”, he extended his gratitude to the voters for “rejecting appeasement politics of the opposition”.Highlighting the high voter turnout in…

Prashant Kishor entered the Bihar election like a master chess player stepping onto a kabaddi field: Armed with strategy, precision, data and design, but facing a game that rewards an entirely different skill set. For a decade, he had shaped the victories of others from behind the curtain, pulling strings with the confidence of a…

The Bihar 2025 assembly elections delivered a historic defeat to the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) with latest trends showing that the alliance may secure just 36 seats. Despite high expectations and an alliance that sought to challenge the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the MGB was unable to translate its efforts into electoral success. Multiple factors converged…