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Amid the Bihar leaders who rose out of the Jayaprakash Narayan movement, Nitish Kumar didn’t have the charisma of Lalu Prasad, the vote base of Ram Vilas Paswan, or the party organisation of the late Sushil Kumar Modi. On Friday, again defying the assumptions about him, the JD(U) supremo led his party to a spectacular win – nearly doubling its seats from 2020 – and ensuring that his 20-year unbroken run, making him Bihar’s longest-serving Chief Minister, will continue.The run-up to the Assembly elections was marked by chatter about Nitish’s future. His government’s initiatives such as free electricity up to…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a searing attack on the Congress after the NDA’s landslide victory in Bihar Friday. Calling the Congress “MMC” or “Muslim League-i, Mao-baadi Congress”, he said another split in the Congress was imminent if the party continued indulging in “negative politics”.The Prime Minister, in his address to the party workers at the BJP headquarters, also vowed to end ‘jungle raj’ in West Bengal, in view of the 2026 assembly elections there. “Today’s victory has energised the BJP’s cadre in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam, and West Bengal…. Ganga flows from Bihar to Bengal. The victory in Bihar…

By registering a big victory in the Nuapada bypoll in Odisha, the ruling BJP did not just increase its tally by one seat in the state Assembly, but the mandate was also seen as an endorsement of the popularity of its 17-month-old government led by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi.The BJP’s candidate in the Nuapada seat, Jay Dholakia, defeated the Congress’s nominee Ghasiram Majhi by 83,748 votes with the principal Opposition BJD’s Snehangini Chhuria finishing third. While Jay secured 1,23,869 votes, Ghasiram and Chhuria got 40,121 and 38,408 votes, respectively. Jay surpassed the victory margin of his father and ex-BJD…

Chennai: Jose Charles Martin, businessman and son of India’s lottery king Santiago Martin, is set to launch a political party in December, ThePrint has learnt. The formal announcement will be made in the second week of December, with Puducherry as the party’s headquarters.The party plans to contest all 30 seats in the 2026 Puducherry assembly elections, a source familiar with the matter said. Jose made his political debut in 2015 with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He joined the party in the presence of the then organising secretary Ram Madhav. Although he failed to win in either the 2016 or…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a sharp attack on the Congress following its heavy defeat in Bihar, calling the party a burden on its allies and forecasting an imminent split driven by internal unrest. Addressing BJP workers in Delhi after the NDA’s sweeping victory in the state, the Prime Minister said the Congress had failed to secure a single win in six states since 2024 and would struggle to gather even 100 seats across them. ‘Congress Has Become MMC’: PM Modi PM Modi claimed that the Congress’s political direction…

Bobby Bank/Getty Images After a couple of modest hits, “Batman Begins” brought Christopher Nolan’s name to the mainstream. The acclaimed “Dark Knight” trilogy that followed made it clear that Nolan had quite the fondness for the Caped Crusader. As a result, it seems a foregone conclusion that 1989’s “Batman” would be the classic comic book adaptation Nolan holds dearest to his heart. But in fact, that distinction belongs to “Superman,” the 1978 film that laid the foundation for all superhero blockbusters to follow — Nolan-directed or otherwise.  At the time of its release, there…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday termed the Bihar elections as “unfair” as the party was left to bite the dust in the high-stakes battle. Taking to X, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha expressed his gratitude to the voters and vowed to review the big loss in the state.  मैं बिहार के उन करोड़ों मतदाताओं का हार्दिक आभार व्यक्त करता हूं, जिन्होंने महागठबंधन पर अपना विश्वास जताया।बिहार का यह परिणाम वाकई चौंकाने वाला है। हम एक ऐसे चुनाव में जीत हासिल नहीं कर सके, जो शुरू से ही निष्पक्ष नहीं था।यह लड़ाई संविधान और लोकतंत्र…

PARIS (AP) — A man wielding a knife at the Montparnasse train station in Paris was shot and wounded by police on Friday, the city’s prosecutor’s office said.At least one shot was fired during the incident involving a man “known for domestic violence,” a statement said. It added that the man then apparently inflicted knife wounds on himself, and emergency services were called. A 53-year-old bystander was hit in the foot by a gunshot and was also treated by emergency services, it said.The authorities stressed that initial communications made no mention of terrorism being suspected as a motive.The shooting came…

The Bihar Mahagathbandhan, which put up a stiff fight against the NDA for Scheduled Caste-reserved seats in the 2020 Assembly polls, has seen its tally crumble to a single digit this time.Bihar has 40 reserved seats: 38 for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 2 for Scheduled Tribes (STs). The ruling NDA government won 34 SC seats and one ST seat. The Opposition Mahagathbandhan managed just four SC seats and one ST seat. In the 2020 Assembly elections, the NDA had won 21 SC seats against the Mahagathbandhan’s 17. That year, the then undivided Lok Janshakti Party, which counts the Dalit Paswan…

Scientists have uncovered how tiny magnetic waves can produce electric signals inside materials, potentially transforming computing efficiency. The discovery could lead to ultrafast, low-power chips that merge magnetic and electric systems seamlessly. Linking Magnetic Waves and Electric Signals A new theoretical study from engineers at the University of Delaware demonstrates that magnons, magnetic spin waves […]