So near yet so far: Journalists miss PM's Ladakh visit due to quarantine

Besides a strict vigil by the hotel staff, some of them periodically received calls from local health officials, checking whether they were still in the hotel

Big alliance gets bigger

The Left parties, which weren’t part of the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar despite having an understanding with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal in the last Lok Sabha polls, are set to join the alliance ahead of the Assembly polls. The decision was taken during the recent virtual meeting of the coalition partners of the Bihar Mahagathbandhan, which was attended by representatives of the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party, and Hindusthan Awam Morcha. The agenda was to accommodate “secular parties” with the aim of defeating the BJP-JD(U) alliance and not repeat the mistake