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Nitish Kumar filed his Rajya Sabha nomination on Thursday, signalling his exit as Bihar CM and setting off a tussle over succession as Opposition parties term the move a betrayal of the 2025 mandate

His remarks came a day after a US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in international waters off Sri Lanka's coast when it was returning after participating in the Milan naval exercise

Kumar on Thursday announced that he will be contesting the Rajya Sabha polls, bringing the curtain down on his tenure as the longest-serving CM of Bihar

However, senior BJP leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh dismissed the rumour as a "Holi prank", asserting "Nitish Kumar ji is the chief minister"

The BJP leader also accused the TMC of preparing fake Aadhaar and voter cards for infiltrators and attempting to change the region's demography

Civic poll results have complicated the state's binary politics and narrowed the Left's margin for error. Are vote shares signalling flux?

Shah said the TMC had turned Bengal into a "swarg (heaven) for infiltrators" and alleged that the border state's security was compromised because the ruling dispensation allowed illegal immigration

As Odisha battles procurement protests and Kerala defends bonuses, mounting rice stocks intensify questions over subsidy-fuelled paddy expansion

Since its electoral debut in 2013, AAP has mostly contested in states that have seen BJP-Congress fights

O Panneerselvam's crossover adds new complexity to a finely poised electoral battle shaped by shifting alliances and Vijay adding a new variable

He said the prime minister had nothing to do with the country, and he was after power only through "conspiracies" and manipulation in voter lists

The programme will kick off a day after the publication of the revised electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state

Delhi court discharges Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and 21 others in the excise policy case, a major boost for AAP after poll losses

NCP working president Praful Patel made this announcement after the party's national executive committee meeting in Mumbai

Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Prime Minister had signed a deal with the US President that was "like digging the foundation"

The opposition party also recalled India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru's July 1947 reply to Albert Einstein's letter to him on the subject of the creation of Israel

Gandhi on Tuesday had said the Indo-US interim trade deal was sealed under pressure and dared Prime Minister Modi to scrap the "anti-farmer" agreement, following the US Supreme Court ruling

But Atal Innovation Mission faces utilisation, depth challenges as it turns a decade

Final electoral rolls show sharp voter deletions across states, with Gujarat seeing the biggest cut and Kerala the lowest after the Special Intensive Revision

Brazil Prez concluded his India visit after signing an array of agreements