Author: Rahul M

With no strong opposition in Gujarat, unlike other states, the BJP’s uninterrupted governance and massive majority have given rise to anti-incumbency sentiment, allegations of corruption and infighting within the party.In May, minister Bachubhai Khabad’s son, Balvant Khabad, was arrested for his alleged involvement in a Rs 71 crore MGNREGA scam, where some contracted agencies allegedly received payments from the government without finishing work or supplying goods.During the monsoon months, several protests were held in the Saurashtra region and North Gujarat, and in July, the BJP’s Valsad district panchayat members held a unique protest by sitting on road potholes and chanting…

John Medland/CBS Call them the new Reagans — if you dare. The Silvers may be the new kids on the block in “Boston Blue,” but they introduce themselves as interesting people with a different way of looking at the world in the series premiere, “Faith and Family.”  The clan is comprised of five members as of this writing — Reverend Edwin Peters (Ernie Hudson), his daughter Mae (Gloria Reuben, who played a different character on “Blue Bloods”), and her children — daughter Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green of “The Walking Dead”), stepdaughter…

KolkataOctober 18, 2025 07:25 AM IST First published on: Oct 18, 2025 at 07:25 AM IST Nearly seven years after parting ways with the Trinamool Congress (TMC), former West Bengal minister Sovan Chatterjee was on Friday appointed the chairperson of New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), in what is seen as the “first step” towards his return to the party. Chatterjee, 61, the former mayor of Kolkata, will replace former chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay as the NKDA chief. The NKDA provides civic services for New Town, adjacent to Kolkata. Sources said Sovan and his friend Baishakhi Banerjee had met Chief…

As the newly inducted ministers in Gujarat took their oaths on Friday, they walked up to greet Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, and also proceeded towards the new Deputy CM, Harsh Sanghavi. The smiling 40-year-old just about raised his hand as if to signal them not to come towards him, but his position on the stage already signalled the importance he would hold in the new administration.According to Sanghavi’s colleagues in the BJP, the MLA from Majura in Surat is “the man to watch out for in the new Patel ministry”, comparing him to Union Home Minister…

PatnaOctober 18, 2025 07:18 AM IST First published on: Oct 18, 2025 at 07:18 AM IST THE bastion of the late Mohd Taslimuddin, a four-time MP who once held sway over Bihar’s Seemanchal region, is set to witness a second clash between his two sons, Sarfaraz Alam, 55, and Shahnawaz Alam, 43. While the RJD earlier announced Shahnawaz as its candidate from Jokihat in Araria, on Thursday, Sarfaraz announced that he was switching over from the party to the Jan Suraaj. The party founded by Prashant Kishor is set to field Sarfaraz now from Jokihat. The JD(U) has fielded its…

The final nomination day for 121 seats in the first phase of Bihar elections coming to a close Friday, the offices of the two main parties of the two main camps, located metres from each other on Patna’s Beer Chand Patel Path, are pictures in contrast.A man leans against a huge replica of the party’s lantern symbol at the RJD headquarters, his voice cutting through the murmurs of a small group. “Seats and fields should have been divided much earlier; we shouldn’t have left room for this tug-of-war,” he says. The thought seems to be writ large on all faces…

New DelhiOctober 18, 2025 07:15 AM IST First published on: Oct 18, 2025 at 07:15 AM IST For the BJP’s two chief allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Janata Dal (United) and Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vikas), one of the tests will be how much of the Muslim vote they manage to get. And yet, both parties have fielded fewer candidates from the minority community in this election. In the BJP list, like in 2020, there are no Muslims, who make up 17.7% of Bihar’s population. The Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) claims to enjoy the support of 20%…

Maithili Thakur has been singing the stories and songs of Mithilanchal for almost a decade now, becoming one of its most recognisable voices in the digital age. Now, the 25-year-old is set to feature among the youngest candidates in the Bihar electoral fray, as a BJP candidate from Alinagar in Darbhanga.At an event Tuesday in Patna where she joined the BJP, Thakur spoke about being “influenced by Prime Minister Modi” and wanting to “serve the people”. On her own agenda, she said she would do exactly what “the party orders me to do” and will “take the party’s ideology to…

Showtime We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Created by Liz Brixius, Evan Dunsky, and Linda Wallem — and notable as one of the best Showtime original series – “Nurse Jackie” is a defining show of the “antihero wave” that took over prestige television at the turn of the 2010s. Starring Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, a capable nurse at New York City’s fictional All Saints Hospital who manages to get by functionally despite a drug habit, “Nurse Jackie” became a critical and audience success with its darkly comical tale of…

AMC Few characters in “The Walking Dead” universe are more morally complex than Negan Smith (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), especially when viewed through the eyes of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his crew. No moment seems to better encapsulate the sociopathic murderer side of Negan than the brutal (and graphic) killing of Glenn (Steven Yeun) right in front of his wife Maggie (Lauren Cohan). That is, until you look at the whole thing from Negan’s point of view and see that he chose to kill Glenn (a comic canon event necessary…