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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…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition is on track to win a key state election in a vote seen as a crucial test of the leader’s popularity in one of the country’s poorest yet most politically influential states.Leads and partial results Friday from the Election Commission of India, the country’s election watchdog, show the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, or NDA, headed toward a landslide victory in the 243-member legislature in the eastern state of Bihar.A simple majority to form the government is 122 while Modi’s alliance was poised to cross 200-mark with BJP…

New Delhi: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav survived a major BJP scare in his family bastion of Raghopur, where BJP’s Satish Kumar kept him locked in a tough contest throughout the day before the Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial face finally pulled ahead with a decisive lead in the final rounds of counting.As the counting of votes started 8 am, Kumar took early leads. But Tejashwi went past him after the eight round of counting, before yielding the lead in the ninth round when Kumar was leading by about 2,200 votes. The BJP leader maintained his lead till about the 18th round of counting.…

Hyderabad: Congress candidate Naveen Yadav registered an impressive victory in the Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll in Telangana, defeating his nearest rival and Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s Maganti Sunitha Gopinath by a margin of nearly 25,000 votes.Celebrations began in Hyderabad early as Naveen’s lead reached around 20,000 votes after eight rounds of counting. His lead stood at 24,729 when all 10 rounds of counting were completed around 2.30 pm, according to the Election Commission website. Yadav garnered 98,988 votes, while Sunitha polled 74,259. Deepak Reddy Lankala of the Bharatiya Janata Party was at the third position with 17,061 votes. Show Full Article Naveen contested…

S. Korea, US sign MoU on $350 billion investment pledge under trade deal Seoul, Nov 14 (IANS) South Korea and the United States have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Seoul’s $350 billion investment pledge made in return for the lowering of U.S. tariffs, the industry ministry said on Friday. The MoU was electronically signed by South Korean Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources. On October 29, the two sides reached an agreement on the details of Seoul’s $350 billion investment pledge made in exchange for…

New DelhiNovember 14, 2025 03:28 PM IST First published on: Nov 14, 2025 at 01:38 PM IST Bihar Election Results 2025: For many in the Bihar Congress, the writing was on the wall for several days, but little did anyone realise that the wall itself would collapse and disappear in such a spectacular fashion. There is disbelief and surprise at the scale of the loss for the RJD-led Mahagatbandhan, which was blown away in the NDA wave. The Congress, the second-largest constituent of the alliance, is struggling to touch double digits with leads in 4-5 seats as of 1 pm.…

JammuNovember 14, 2025 01:37 PM IST First published on: Nov 14, 2025 at 01:36 PM IST BJP’s Devyani Rana on Thursday won the Nagrota Assembly seat as she polled 42,143 votes, a lead of 24,522 votes over her nearest rival, Harsh Dev Singh, a former minister and president of the J&K National Panthers Party (India). According to the latest data released by the Election Commission of India after the conclusion of the final round of counting, the ruling National Conference finished a distant third in the bypoll with its candidate, Shamim Begum, securing 10,834 votes. Devyani, who holds an Economics…

Bangladesh on edge: Salafist groups unite raising fears of impending coup New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Bangladesh is witnessing a dangerous trend where more Islamist outfits are coming together to press for the imposition of harsher laws in the country. Protests erupted after the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government rolled back its recruitment of music and physical training teachers to government primary schools. Several hardline Islamist groups have come together to protest against this move as they call the recruitment to such posts as un-Islamic. Officials say that the decision by the Yunus administration to lift the ban on the Jamaat…