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Lok Sabha polls 2024 phase 1: Over 9.7% voter turnout recorded till 9 am

The first phase of the Lok Sabha polls will see 102 out of 534 constituencies go to polls in 17 states and four Union Territories

Over 7.5 mn voters to decide fate of 38 candidates in 4 seats of Bihar

The stage is set for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Bihar where more than 75 lakh voters will decide the fate of 38 candidates standing in four constituencies. Tight security arrangements are in place at Nawada and Aurangabad, besides reserved seats of Gaya and Jamui, where a majority of nearly 5,000 polling booths have been marked as "sensitive", given these districts' long history of naxal violence. Of the four seats, Nawada has the highest number of 20.06 lakh voters, where altogether eight candidates are in the fray though the contest is primarily between Vivek Thakur, a BJP Rajya Sabha MP seeking entry into the Lok Sabha, and RJD's Shravan Kushwaha. The pitch has, however, been queered by Independent candidate Binod Yadav, who resigned from the RJD after Kushwaha was fielded from the seat. Yadav is the younger brother of Raj Vallabh Yadav, a former MLA whose wife Vibha Devi is a sitting MLA and who wields considerable influence and muscle power in the area. Gaya has th

Bihar's Gaya: A battleground of prestige for NDA candidate Jitan Ram Manjhi

Gaya goes to poll in Phase 1 of Lok Sabha 2024 elections, on April 19

Terrorists kill migrant worker from Bihar in targeted attack in Anantnag

A worker from Bihar was shot dead by terrorists in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials here said. They said the terrorists fired upon Raja Shah from point blank range at Jablipora in Bijbehara area, resulting in critical injuries. He was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries, they said. The incident has taken place in the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency which is going to polls in the third phase on May 7.

Congress creating north-south divide to break India: Amit Shah in Bihar

Launching a blistering attack on the opposition INDIA bloc, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused the Congress of creating a north-south divide to break the country. Addressing an election rally in Guraru block of Gaya district, he also accused the Congress and the RJD of indulging in the politics of appeasement. The Congress party is creating a north-south divide to break the nation which the NDA-led Central government and people of the country will not allow. Their leader Rahul Gandhi is maintaining a stoic silence on this, Shah said. People of this country have now made up their mind to give a befitting reply to such divisive forces in the Lok Sabha polls and will ensure 400 plus seats for the NDA, he added. They (Congress and RJD) are indulging in politics of appeasement and that is the reason they are protesting the removal of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, said Shah. He also claimed that the Congress never wanted Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and never thought of .

Huge tax and licence raj in liquor

There is a need to avoid huge taxes and undue licensing. All this can also reduce corruption and even doubts about corruption

Lok Sabha polls: PM Modi to address election rally in Bihar's Nawada today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an election rally in Bihar's Nawada district on Sunday. This will be his second rally in the state after the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections. "Once again, a massive wave of BJP-NDA is being seen in Bihar. I will have an opportunity to meet my family members, who are excited about voting, in the public meeting in Nawada around 11 am today," Modi posted on X ahead of the rally. The state police have put in place a multi-tier security cover at the venue ahead of the PM's rally. The BJP has fielded Vivek Thakur, the party's Rajya Sabha MP and son of senior BJP leader and former Union minister C P Thakur, from Nawada Lok Sabha constituency. Earlier on April 4, Modi had launched the Lok Sabha election campaign of the NDA in Bihar through a rally in Jamui constituency. Polling will be held in Nawada, Gaya, Aurangabad and Jamui Lok Sabha constituencies in the first phase on April 19. As per the NDA's seat-sharing arrangement in Bihar for th

Govt aims 7-fold jump in wheat procurement from UP, Rajasthan, Bihar

Amid the heat of the ongoing Lok Sabha electioneering, the Centre has announced plans to significantly increase wheat purchase from non-traditional states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Bihar and set a target of seven-fold jump in procurement to 50 lakh tonnes in the ongoing 2024-25 marketing year. Further, even as the ban on outbound shipments of wheat continues, "it will be a dream for us to export now", Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra told reporters on Thursday. "UP, Bihar, and Rajasthan have been contributing much less than they could have. We are targeting total wheat procurement of 310 lakh tonne this year. Of which, we are hoping to procure at least 50 lakh tonne from three non-traditional procurement states alone," he said. While Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Bihar put together contributed only 6.7 lakh tonnes to the central pool during the 2023-24 marketing year (April-March), the Union Food Ministry has decided to procure 16 per cent of the total wheat procurement target o

'NDA to win all 40 Bihar seats': PM Modi campaigns for Chirag Paswan

'I am glad that my little brother Chirag has stepped into the shoes of my friend late Ram Vilas Paswan,' said PM Modi in Bihar's Jamui

LS polls: 22 leaders quit LJP, accuse Chirag Paswan of 'selling tickets'

Citing dissatisfaction over not getting tickets for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the outgoing leaders said they will now support the INDIA bloc

Bihar Board class 10 results declared; overall pass percentage at 82.91

The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Sunday announced the class 10 results, with the overall pass percentage being 82.91. The pass percentage for boys was 84.45, while it was 81.4 for girls. "This year, a total of 16,64,252 candidates appeared for the examination, of which 8,58,785 were girls and 8,05,467 were boys. A total of 13,79,842 candidates, including 6,99,549 girls and 6,80,293 boys, passed the examination," BSEB chairman Anand Kishore said. The overall pass percentage was 81.04 last year, he added. A total of 4,52,302 students passed with first division while 5,24,965 students secured second division and 3,80,732 got third division, he added. The topper of class 10 is Shivankar Kumar of Zilla School in Purnea district. Kumar got 97.80 per cent. Adarsh Kumar of Samastipur scored 488 marks and secured the second position in the state. There are four candidates in the third position: Aditya Kumar, Suman Kumar Purve, Palak Kumari, Sajiya Perween, with all of them sc

PM Modi to launch Lok Sabha election campaign in Bihar on April 4

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sound the poll bugle in Bihar on April 4 with a rally in Jamui, where voting will be held in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The announcement was made by Chirag Paswan, BJP's junior alliance partner, a second-term MP from Jamui who has now shifted base, passing over the mantle to brother-in-law Arun Bharti. In a post on X, Paswan, who heads the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), said: "It is a matter of immense pride for our workers that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching his Lok Sabha campaign in Bihar from Jamui". Paswan, who will contest from Hajipur, his late father Ram Vilas Paswan's pocket borough, also shared a poster with the PM's image printed alongside that of Bharti, who is making his electoral debut. "I take this opportunity to thank the prime minister on behalf of the people of Jamui. We are confident that under his leadership, the NDA will bag all 40 seats in Bihar, and achieve the target of 400 plus, said Paswan. Hi

LS polls: RJD to contest on 26, Cong, Left to field on 14 seats in Bihar

In the seat-sharing formula for the Mahagathbandhan allies, RJD gets key constituencies in Madhubani and Hajipur while Congress to contest from Kishanganj and Muzaffarpur

Lok Sabha polls: PM Modi, Amit Shah among star campaigners of BJP in Bihar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and UP CM Yogi Adityanath are among the 40 star campaigners who would canvass for the BJP in Bihar during the Lok Sabha elections. In the list, the party also named its chief JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, besides Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav. Among the state leaders who found a place on the list are Deputy CMs Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, Renu Devi, Mangal Pandey, Prem Kumar, Neeraj Kumar Singh, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and Sushil Kumar Modi. The BJP on Sunday announced candidates for 17 Lok Sabha seats in the state. It dropped three incumbent MPs, including Union Minister Ashwani Kumar Choubey. Choubey, who was elected from Buxar for the second consecutive term in 2019, has been replaced by Mithilesh Tiwari, a former MLA. All the remaining 14 candidates are sitting MPs, who will seek re-election from their respective seats.

Bihar's half revolution

'Broken Promises' is a political history of Bihar, offering a meticulous account of the interplay of land, caste, crime and politics that has kept the state in perpetual poverty

World TB Day: As India's eradication deadline nears, Bimaru states a drag

Experts say that despite the decline in incidence rates, the 2025 deadline may be ambitious

Bihar Board 10th Result 2024: BSEB Matric result to be announced soon

Bihar Board 10th result is expected to be declared after Holi and is likely to be announced on March 30 or 31 at the official site at biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in

Lok Sabha polls: Chirag Paswan's party to declare candidates after Holi

NDA ally Chirag Paswan said his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will declare its candidates for the Lok Sabha polls immediately after Holi. Paswan, whose party has got five of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, also asserted he was "ready for any challenge" that came from his estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras. "We will announce all our candidates in a few days... immediately after Holi, Paswan said on Sunday, but evaded a direct reply to the question of whether he would accommodate Veena Devi and Mehboob Ali Kaiser, sitting MPs from Vaishali and Khagaria, respectively. Both the seats, contested by his late father Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party in 2019, have been assigned to the young leader's party this time. The MPs had rallied behind Paras when he split the LJP in 2021, but of late have been repenting that decision and swearing their loyalty towards the late party founder's son. Paswan was also asked about the threat by Paras, who has resigned from his Union cabinet ber

Lok Sabha elections: BSP names 25 candidates; JD(U) lists all 16 in Bihar

The Janata Dal (United), on the other hand, announced all its 16 candidates from Bihar, where the Opposition 'grand alliance' is seeing some friction between the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal

Bihar Diwas 2024: Everything about the formation of the state of Bihar

Every year on March 22, Bihar Day celebrates the state of Bihar's formation. The Bengal Presidency's Bihar and Orissa divisions were split off in 1912 to form the province of Bihar and Odisha