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Following the blast near the Red Fort in Delhi Monday evening, which killed at least nine people and injured several others, the Bengaluru city police declared a high alert in the city.Story continues below this ad Soon after the Red Fort blast, the Bengaluru police conducted security checks in many public places, including metro stations, bus stands, and railway stations. They also checked vehicles during the night. “Security has been intensified at all major public places and critical infrastructure locations, including railway stations, bus terminals, the airport, metro stations, shopping malls, business establishments, and other vital institutions. Police personnel have…

From demanding a Bharat Ratna for Lalu Prasad for his contribution to social justice, to organising special outreach events for the Teli community and invoking EBC icon Karpoori Thakur, the RJD has gone the extra mile over the past year to lay claim to non-Yadav OBC and EBC voters.Apart from making jobs its central plank, the party under Tejashwi Yadav hoped that this would broaden its appeal beyond its Yadav-Muslim vote base. The RJD also aligned closely with the Congress, and its demand for a caste census, and stitched up alliances this time with smaller caste-based outfits such as Mukesh…

On paper, it is just one seat. However, a lot rides on the Sasaram Assembly constituency for Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha, whose hold on the Kushwaha vote was rattled by his 2024 Lok Sabha loss. Wresting back Sasaram would go a long way towards redemption, not to mention that the candidate from the seat – among the total 6 the RLM is contesting – is Kushwaha’s wife Snehlata.In 2020, when the RJD’s Rajesh Kumar Gupta won from Sasaram, it was the first time in 30 years that the constituency had gone to a non-Kushwaha. While the BJP’s…

On Sunday, the last day of campaigning for the second phase of the Bihar elections, RJD candidate in Gaya’s Imamganj, Ritu Priya Chaudhary, held her roadshow across the constituency. Dressed in a green saree and carrying an RJD flag marked with the photos of Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav, she greeted people along her route.In the Imamganj market, Ram Chandra Yadav was keenly watching Ritu’s final canvassing bid. “This time, the lantern (RJD’s symbol) will win from here. Nothing has been done by the NDA government in all these years,” he said. His friend countered him sarcastically: “So, there is…

PatnaNovember 11, 2025 08:21 AM IST First published on: Nov 11, 2025 at 08:21 AM IST As Bihar gears up to vote in the second and final phase of the Assembly polls on Tuesday, former bureaucrat and JD(U) national general secretary Manish Verma speaks to The Indian Express on the BJP projecting Nitish Kumar as the NDA’s chief ministerial face, surge in women voters in phase 1, and Mahagathbandhan CM face Tejashwi Yadav’s promises, among other issues. Excerpts: *After travelling across 70-odd of the 101 seats that the JD(U) is contesting, what do you sense from the ground? We clearly…

Polling began early Tuesday morning across several states for high-profile Assembly by-elections, with heavy security deployment and strict surveillance ensuring smooth conduct. From Telangana to Punjab, Jharkhand, Odisha, Mizoram, and Jammu & Kashmir, voters are deciding the fate of dozens of candidates in contests that could shape the political narrative ahead of future elections. Jubilee Hills bypoll: A three-way battle in Hyderabad Polling in the prestigious Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency in Hyderabad began at 7 am under tight security. Over 4.01 lakh voters are eligible to decide the fate of 58 candidates in what has turned into a triangular contest…

After the first phase of voting in the Bihar Assembly elections saw a turnout of 65.08%, the second and final phase will see 122 seats go to the polls on Tuesday.In these 122 constituencies, which are mostly concentrated along Bihar’s borders with Nepal, West Bengal, and Jharkhand, the BJP was the leading party in the 2020 Assembly polls en route to a narrow NDA majority in the House. The BJP had won 42 seats with a 21.61% vote share in the Phase 2 seats, with ally Janata Dal (United) 20 seats from 13.69% of the vote share. The Hindustani Awam…

Joe Seer/Shutterstock From “Inception” to “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Leonardo DiCaprio’s name is synonymous with crime thrillers. But one movie that’s often forgotten is 2002’s “Gangs of New York,” the historical epic directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starring Daniel Day-Lewis, now available on Paramount+.  The movie revolves around “Amsterdam” Vallon (DiCaprio) who, in 1862, returns to the Five Points neighborhood of New York City seeking revenge against William “Bill the Butcher” Cutting (Day-Lewis), the leader of an Anglo-Protestant gang and anti-immigrant scourge, for slaying his father “Priest” Vallon (Liam Neeson) and outlawing…

“Teen saal se maine (apni) haddi jala diya hai.” Prashant Kishor says this about the work he has put in over the past three years to get his party, Jan Suraaj, up and running in Bihar.Kishor, popularly referred to as PK, represents not only a new party in Bihar, giving sleepless moments to the NDA led by Nitish Kumar or the Mahagathbandhan helmed by Tejashwi Yadav, he is a reminder of the political space that existed in the state — and probably elsewhere — that was there for the taking for the Congress had it put in the mehnat (hard…

In Khagaria district’s Alauli village, work on a much-awaited railway line has moved at a glacial pace. Twenty-eight years after it was sanctioned in 1996-97, only 19 km of the track is operational, with the 23-km route to Darbhanga district’s Kusheshwar Asthan still incomplete. The result is ironic: Alauli resident Sushila Devi’s land now has a railhead which, in the absence of trains, has turned into a shelter for cows and buffaloes.Conceived by then Union Railways Minister Ram Vilas Paswan near his birthplace Saharbanni, along with the Sakri-Hasanpur line via Kusheshwar Asthan, which was his nanihaal or maternal home, the…