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The daughter of Loktantrik chief Janata Dal (LJD) Sharad Yadav, Subhashini Raj Rao, and former Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Secretary General Kali Prasad Pandey joined Congress on Wednesday, weeks before the assembly elections of Bihar. While Pandey submitted his nomination as a congressional candidate for the upcoming Kuchaikote constituency elections, …

Seven people allegedly gang-raped a 30-year-old woman after killing her five-year-old son in Bihar’s Buxar district, police said Monday. One person has been held in connection with the incident, while the search continues to catch the others, they said. On Saturday, the man took the woman into a forest when …

NEW DELHI: Seven Indians, who were kidnapped in Libya last month, they have been released, the ministry of foreign affairs he said on Monday. Indian citizens, coming from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, were kidnapped in Asshwerif on September 14 when they were heading to Tripoli airport to …

BJP leaders like Sushil Modi have hinted that Prashant Kishor is controlling Chirag Paswan from a distance. Patna: With Chirag Paswan becoming a tension for Bihar’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the run-up to this month’s elections, the BJP’s damage control machinery has removed the only name that has …

Bihar Polls: JP Nadda held the first post-COVID-19 public rally in Bihar. Patna: The country is safe in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as is Bihar’s progress under the leadership of Nitish Kumar, BJP Chairman JP Nadda said on Sunday as he began the ruling coalition’s election campaign …

NEW DELHI: The BJP released a list of 46 candidates on Sunday, all for the second phase of the Bihar assembly polls, bringing to 75 the number of constituencies for which the party has announced its nominees so far. State Minister Nand Kishore Yadav (of Patna Sahib) and Nitish Mishra, …

The left-wing parties and their alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in the next elections for the Bihar assembly are touted as formidable, with the former still having significant support in pockets. However, while RJD’s leadership has been enthusiastic about its alliance with the Communist Party of India (ML-Liberation), …

File photo of the late Ram Vilas Paswan. (PTI) Despite his national ambitions, Ram Vilas Paswan could, from the days of Janata Dal and after, never really get out of Bihar politics. The closest he came to becoming the state’s CM was in February 2005 when his LJP party won …

The passing of veteran Dalit and socialist leader Ram Vilas Paswan marks the beginning of the end of an era in Indian politics in general and in the politics of the heart in particular. This era began in the 1960s and 1970s, when a generation of young activists, inspired by …

Ram Vilas Paswan left a lasting mark on politics, Rahul Gandhi told Chirag Paswan. New Delhi: The leader of Congress, Rahul Gandhi, paid tribute to the Minister of the Union, Ram Vilas Paswan, who passed away yesterday, recalling his “illustrious public life” in a letter to his son Chirag Paswan. …