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New Delhi: Ending days of suspense, Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor has decided not to contest the Bihar assembly elections, ending speculations over his candidacy. PK told the media in Patna that members of his party decided he should focus on working for the victory of other party candidates.The Jan Suraaj Party Tuesday nominated Chanchal Singh as the candidate from the Raghopur assembly, the Rashtriya Janata Dal stronghold, from where Prashant Kishor earlier appeared likely to contest the Bihar elections. On 11 October, PK even held a roadshow in Raghopur, now represented by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. The vice…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday unveiled its second list of candidates for the Bihar Assembly Election 2025, featuring 12 names cleared by the party’s Central Election Committee. The announcement saw the inclusion of folk singer Maithili Thakur from Alinagar and IPS officer Anand Mishra from Buxar. BJP Bihar Assembly Election 2025 Second Candidate List Sr. No. Constituency Name Candidate Name 1 Alinagar (81) Maithili Thakur 2 Hayaghat (84) Ram Chandra Prasad 3 Muzaffarpur (94) Ranjan Kumar  4 Gopalganj (101) …

The Bengaluru city police said on Wednesday that they arrested three men for robbing a student hailing from Sudan of money and his motorcycle on October 8. According to the police, the victim, a 25-year-old student of a private college in Bengaluru, was returning from Koramangala around 12.40 am last Wednesday, when he noticed three men riding a motorcycle near Rajiv Gandhi Circle in Sheshadripuram. When he flashed his motorcycle’s headlight at them, they started following him. Out of fear, he rode away but lost control of the motorcycle and fell off because of nervousness, around 1 am. The three…

New DelhiOctober 15, 2025 04:59 PM IST First published on: Oct 15, 2025 at 04:39 PM IST Hostels in each sub-division and degree colleges in every block for students of Other Backward Classes, implementing recommendations of the Bandyopadhyay Commission on land reforms, and giving first access to rape survivors of their medical reports to avoid “manipulation” — these are some of the promises that the Mahagathbandhan is likely to include in its joint manifesto for the Bihar Assembly polls. Sources working on the manifesto, which is likely to be released in the next few days, told The Indian Express that…

The Karnataka Lokayukta said it raided 12 government officials, including a former director of the school education department, and seized disproportionate assets worth Rs 38 crore on Tuesday. The raids were conducted at the houses of officials in and around Bengaluru, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Haveri, Bidar, Udupi, Bagalkot, and Hassan. The Lokayuka police said they seized properties worth Rs 7.32 crore during the raids on the premises of V Sumangala, a former director of the Department of School Education, Research and Training (DSERT). Sumangala was suspended in July last year for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 1.62 crore to the…

The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election, scheduled for March-April, is already shaping up to be one of the most complex and consequential contests in the state’s political history. Opinion polls currently project the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) at 143 seats with a 47.5% vote share, followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at 123 seats with 37.5%, and the CPI(M)-led Left Front at 18 seats with 10.5%.  On paper, the ruling TMC still appears ahead, but the undercurrents suggest an election where anti-incumbency, organisational weaknesses, demographic shifts, and identity politics will all converge.  This is not merely an electoral…

The India vs Pakistan junior hockey match at the Sultan of Johor Cup in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, began with players from both sides exchanging high-fives after the national anthems and ended with handshakes following a closely contested 3-3 draw on Tuesday.   This development comes in contrast to the Asia Cup cricket tournament last month, where Indian and Pakistani players refrained from any on-field interaction. At the Asia Cup, the Suryakumar Yadav-led Indian cricket team did not engage in the customary handshake with their Pakistani counterparts, in the wake of Operation Sindoor, and dedicated their victory to the families affected…

Looper “Challengers” is not a film that feels like its been done before. Certainly there have been many sports-related films over the past 100 or so years, plus quite a few films focusing on the unhealthy relationship dynamics of a dramatic love triangle. There are films about friendship, films that cut across time, films that give their audience ambiguous endings, films with subversive scores, and movies that star serious up-and-comers. There aren’t really any films besides “Challengers” that do all of these things, though, certainly none that benefit from the insightful,…

Bihar Election 2025: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Raghopur constituency ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, in the presence of his parents and former Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi. After filing his nomination, Tejashwi launched a sharp attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, claiming that the Janata Dal (United) is no longer under his control. “Now, Nitish Kumar is not running JDU. JDU is being run by Lalan Singh, Sanjay Jha and Vijay Choudhary. JDU does not…

MOSCOW (AP) — Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, arrived in Russia on Wednesday on his first visit.Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is set to hold talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin to “discuss the current condition and prospects for the development of Russian-Syrian ties in the trade and economic and humanitarian spheres, as well as the latest developments in the Middle East,” the Kremlin said. The meeting underlines Moscow’s desire to establish working ties with Syria’s new leadership and secure…