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India-Japan partnership key to strategic stability in Indo-Pacific: EAM Jaishankar New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Highlighting the growing Indo-Japan ties, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Wednesday said that the partnership between the two nations contributes to enhancing strategic stability in the Indo-Pacific. Addressing the 8th India-Japan Indo-Pacific Forum, he said, “Our partnership that has deepened so much in the last few decades, has greater value than ever before. It serves to enhance strategic stability in the Indo-Pacific and contribute to economic one at a global level. Maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific is a stronger imperative, but also…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom The road to Bihar elections is getting interesting and in a dramatic political twist just hours before the state goes to the polls, Jan Suraj Party’s Munger Assembly candidate, Sanjay Singh, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The move, coming on the eve of the first phase of voting, has sent shockwaves through the local political landscape. Singh, who had been campaigning as a Jan Suraj nominee from Munger, officially took BJP membership on Wednesday in the presence of BJP candidate Kumar Pranay. By extending his support to…

CM Naidu lauds his wife for winning two prestigious awards in London Amaravati, Nov 5 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that he is proud of his wife Nara Bhuvaneswari after she received two prestigious awards in London. The Chief Minister, who is in London with his wife, took to ‘X’ to share his thoughts after Bhuvaneswari, Vice-Chairperson and Managing Director of Heritage Food Limited, received the awards. “Absolutely proud of my wife, Bhuvaneswari, who has been honoured with two prestigious awards in London today. The first, the IOD Distinguished Fellow Award, recognises her remarkable contribution to…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has been elected the new mayor of New York City, marking a watershed moment in the city’s political history and energising Democrats across the country. The 34-year-old Assembly member, known for his progressive stance and grassroots appeal, secured a decisive victory in Wednesday’s fiercely contested election, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Born in Uganda and raised in New York, Mamdani represents a new generation of leadership within the Democratic Party. A self-described democratic socialist, he…

Ratan Kesari, another schoolmate, says Kishor would never hesitate to take chances.“Who else would have dared to do that when Modi was at the peak of his popularity in 2015,” he asks, referring to the role Kishor played in forging the JD(U)-RJD alliance to keep BJP out of power in Bihar in 2015, after “things didn’t work out with Modi and Shah”. Prashant Kishor’s ancestral home in Konar village, Rohtas | ThePrint/Prashant Srivastava Fondly known among friends as ‘Tu-Tu Bhai’ (after his nickname Tu-Tu), Kishor was born in Shahabad district, where his father Shrikant Pandey was a doctor in a…

Democrat Abigail Spanberger clinched victory in Virginia’s gubernatorial race on Tuesday, defeating Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears in a closely watched contest that delivers Democrats a crucial prelude to the 2026 midterm elections. Her win marks a historic first as Spanberger will become Virginia’s first woman governor, succeeding outgoing Republican Glenn Youngkin and ending GOP control of the executive office. Addressing jubilant supporters in Richmond, Spanberger said the result sent “a message to every corner of the commonwealth, a message to our neighbours and our fellow Americans across the country.” She added, “We sent a message to the whole world…

Nothing captures the irony of the NDA’s Mithilanchal push in Bihar better than Jitwarpur, the village on the outskirts of Madhubani city, home to some of the finest exponents of the famed Mithila art, including three Padma Shri awardees.Yet, the narrow road leading to Jitwarpur is broken, the monsoon has left it slushy, and there is no proper drainage or street lighting. Drinking water too is scarce. Madhubani painter Diwakar Jha peels dried sugarcane sheaths as he laments the state of the village. “We have water on the streets but our taps are dry. I am better off because I…

The men walked in a slow line down a narrow lane, which was quiet except for the sound of metal vessels being washed and a scooter engine. Doors were half-open. The sun burned on tin roofs.They stopped at a yellow house first. A woman in a blue and white sari stood with her arms folded. She looked worried. This is ward 64 on Perumal Koil Street in Chief Minister M K Stalin’s Kolathur constituency – the northern edge of Chennai city in Thiruvallur district. Here, like in other parts of the state, the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of…

Two days after Anant Singh’s arrest in the only serious incident of violence in the Bihar Assembly elections, the JD(U) candidate and bahubali dominates the Mokama contest – in letter and spirit. On the final day of campaigning for the first phase on November 6, senior JD(U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh canvassed with NDA supporters, who held a poster, saying: ‘Main bhi Anant (I too am Anant)’.Anant Singh, who has over 50 charges against him and has kept the Mokama seat within the family since 2005, was held late on Saturday night on charges of murder, over…

“This is just the enumeration form, you have to show us nothing now,” says Sahabuddin Mondol, 37, a school teacher deputed as a Booth Level Officer (BLO), as he makes his way from one house to another in the Kajipara area of Barasat, the district headquarters of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal. At 10.30 am, Mondol, armed with a large plastic bag containing enumeration forms, steps out of his home in Kajipara. As a BLO, Mondol has been assigned the Jagadighata Kajipara Dakshin area, which falls within the Barasat Assembly seat. In Mondol’s list are 1,287 voters under polling…