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Bihar polls: BJP releases final list of 35 candidates, renominates four state ministers, drops two MLAs
•From Pranpur, the party has nominated Nisha Singh, wife of former state minister Vinod Kumar Singh, who died of post-COVID complications, whereas, late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's cousin Neeraj Kumar Singh will seek re-election from Chattapur
Bihar Assembly elections: Nand Kishore Yadav, Nitish Mishra among 46 BJP candidates for second phase of polls
•The Assembly polls in Bihar will be held in three phases on 28 October, 3 November and 7 November. The results will be declared on 10 November.
Bihar polls: JD(U) names 115 candidates; Chandrika Roy contests from Parsa, ex-DGP Gupteshwar Pandey loses out
•Pandey, who had hit the national headlines in the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, may yet ontes the Valmiki Nagar LS bypolls or get a berth in the legislative council
Bihar polls: BJP allocates 11 seats to Vikassheel Insaan Party; saffron party to now contest in 110 seats
•The party led by Bollywood set designer Mukesh Sahani had recently announced an abrupt exit from the Grand Coalition of Opposition parties in protest against 'back-stabbing' by RJD, and its de facto leader Tejashwi Yadav
Bihar Mahagathbandhan holds first meet since LS poll debacle, resolves to educate people about 'real issues' to counter BJP
•Leaders of the Opposition 'Mahagathbandhan' in Bihar, the multi-party formation which suffered virtual obliteration in the Lok Sabha election, on Tuesday held a meeting in an apparent bid to pick up the threads in the state where Assembly polls are due next year
West Bengal doctors' stir brings into focus India's habit of embracing empty gestures rather than substantial solutions
Samrat •Incidents of assaults on doctors at government hospitals, which are horribly overcrowded and frightening places for patients, have unfortunately been common across the country for many years.
With 60% polling in phase 3, voters seal fate of Sharad Yadav in Madhepura, Mukesh Sahni in Khagaria; Supaul, Araria to reveal depth of grand alliance
Faizan Ahmad •The phase 3 polls in Bihar sealed fate of senior leader Sharad Yadav who is facing a tough challenge from Pappu Yadav in Madhepura and Mukesh Sahni who is his trying his luck for entry to Lok Sabha from Khagaria, among others
Upset with Bihar seat-sharing formula, rebel RJD, Congress leaders rise against mahagathbandhan in Madhubani
Faizan Ahmad •Madhubani has emerged as a battleground of Bihar mahagathbandhan leaders with rebel RJD, Congress leaders deciding to contest as Independent candidates from the Lok Sabha constituency
Forced to choose between communalists and criminals as their netas, Bihar voters get played by cunning secularists
Mohammad_sajjad •The choice of Bihar Mahagathbandhan candidates for Darbhanga, Madhubani and Siwan Lok Sabha seats raises questions about the ‘secularism’ practised by non-BJP parties and the responses to it by Muslim voters
Congress, RLSP, RJD, to negotiate Bihar seat-sharing formula in Delhi today; new entrants likely to get one seat each
•The Bihar seat-sharing talks will be centred around a tentative formula wherein the RJD will get the lions share of 17 seats, followed by 11 seats for the Congress and four for the RLSP. The HAM, LJD and VIP would get one seat each, according to sources in the grand alliance.