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New Delhi: Consolidating the gains it had made in the last assembly elections in 2020, Asaduddin Owaisi’s party, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has won 5 of the 25 seats it contested in Bihar. All 5 seats are in the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal region.Further, in at least three seats in Seemanchal, it has cut into the votebank of the INDIA alliance, which it had offered to be a part of in the run-up to the elections. Seemanchal includes Kishanganj (68 percent Muslim population), Katihar (45 percent), Araria (43 percent), and Purnia (38 percent). Bihar has a 17 percent Muslim population,…

New Delhi: Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan’s Midas touch remains intact. His party is leading in 19 out of the 29 total seats it contested in the Bihar assembly elections.The golden run continues since the 2024 general elections when his party had won all five parliamentary seats, a 100 percent strike rate. In the 2020 Assembly polls, Chirag’s party had contested solo, even though he called himself ‘Modiji’s Hanuman‘ while campaigning against the BJP’s ally, Nitish Kumar. The LJP was instrumental in bringing the JD(U)’s tally down to 43 in the 243-member Assembly. The LJP…

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Suspense builds up over the chief minister’s face in Bihar as the BJP emerges to be the largest party in early trends, with counting of votes still underway. BJP leader Vinod Tawde said that the CM will be decided after consulting all the five parties of the ruling NDA.   (This is a breaking news story and is being updated. Please refresh for the latest updates.)

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (AP) — Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.The bodies were returned after militants late Thursday handed over the body of one of the last four remaining Israeli hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.Israel identified the returned body as that of Meny Godard, who was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel. His wife, Ayelet, was killed during the attack.The armed wings of…

The ruling Congress established a comfortable lead in the by-election to the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency in Hyderabad as its candidate V Naveen Yadav was ahead of his Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) rival Maganti Sunitha by 19,797 votes after the completion of seven rounds of counting Friday. The posters at Gandhi Bhavan, the Congress’s headquarters in Hyderabad, featured Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s image with a line, “Thaggedele (jhukega nahi)”, from Allu Arjun’s film “Pushpa”. Naveen Yadav’s home in Jubilee Hills also displayed huge cutouts of Revanth Reddy and state party president B Mahesh Kumar Goud. The Jubilee Hills…

New Delhi: Left parties in Bihar ceded most gains they had made in the 2020 Assembly elections.The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, which had won 12 out of the 19 seats it contested in the state the last time, managed to clinch victories in just two constituencies – Paliganj and Karakat. Results of the two-phase Bihar Assembly elections, votes for which were counted on Friday, showed that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) won from a single seat, Bibhutipur. The Communist Party of India (CPI) did not open its tally. Show Full Article Together, the Left parties had captured 16…

In a disturbing incident, the body of a 21-year-old law student was discovered hanging inside the chamber of a local advocate in Kakdwip, South 24-Parganas district in West Bengal on Wednesday evening. The advocate, Sheikh Monowar Alam, has gone absconding after the incident, prompting a police manhunt. Police suspect the death may be a suicide linked to a personal relationship gone sour, but foul play has not been ruled out pending post-mortem results. Sonia Halder, a first-year student at Hindu Law College and a resident of Gandhinagar in Kakdwip, used to visit the chamber of advocate, Sheikh Monowar Alam for…

For Chirag Paswan, who overcame several setbacks and embarrassments in his fight for the legacy of his father, the late Ram Vilas Paswan, the Bihar poll performance is poetic justice.’s ‘Hanuman’, is the newest star on Bihar’s political horizon. At 43, he also has age on his side as the state looks for young faces. Five years after Paswan Senior, the stalwart Dalit leader of the state, died, and despite the split in the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) following it, Chirag has now taken his LJP (RV) faction close to the party’s best-ever performance. Before this, the LJP’s highest tally…

New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is headed for a decisive victory in Bihar, overwhelming the Opposition grand alliance and positioning Nitish Kumar as claimant for a record fifth term as chief minister. Politics in the state has revolved around his leadership for the past two decades.Early results from the Election Commission of India highlight a clear trend. The NDA, supported by strong performances from the Janata Dal (United) and BJP, leads in most of Bihar’s 243 assembly constituencies. The JD(U) had a lead in 80 seats at 1.45 pm, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI), reflecting…