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Bihar

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Media hype does not translate into votes: As Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party gets a big zero, here is why ‘Kingmaker’ PR and tall...

Shriti Sagar - 15 November, 2025

Across the state, it polled roughly 3.4% of the vote share. Not a single JSP candidate won.

Bihar rejects Congress: Mahagathbandhan set to lose 9 out 10 seats where Rahul Gandhi held rallies, his Voter Adhikar Yatra to peddle ‘Vote Chori’...

Shraddha Pandey - 14 November, 2025

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again lived up to his reputation as the BJP’s undeclared ‘Star Pracharak’, as the grand alliance is set to lose most of the seats where Gandhi held poll rallies.

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Singer Maithili Thakur becomes the youngest MLA in Bihar Vidan Sabha, first BJP candidate to win the Alinagar seat

OpIndia Staff - 14 November, 2025

2021 marked another achievement in Maithili Thakur's music career after she received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi.

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Open threats of anarchy and violence? RJD leader Sunil Singh says Bihar will turn into Nepal or Bangladesh if any ‘malpractice’ is observed

OpIndia Staff - 13 November, 2025

Meanwhile, the Bihar DGP has ordered filing of an FIR against the RJD leader Sunil Singh over his inflammatory remarks.

Record 67.14% turnout in Bihar’s final phase of polls, highest in state’s history

OpIndia Staff - 11 November, 2025

In the second and final phase of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, held on Tuesday (November 11, 2025), the state witnessed a record 67.14% voter turnout by 5 PM, the highest in Bihar’s electoral history, surpassing the 65.08% turnout recorded in the first phase.

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122 constituencies in Bihar across 20 districts voting today in the final phase of elections, by-polls underway in 7 states and UT

OpIndia Staff - 11 November, 2025

The fate of 1,302 candidates, 136 women and one person of a third gender, will be decided in the second phase of Bihar assembly elections.

Opinions

Jungle Raj, nepotism and more: 14 rallies of PM Modi with special focus on development policies, women empowerment that set the tone for Bihar...

रुपम - 10 November, 2025

PM Modi declared that the opposition parties will attack one another after the Bihar assembly elections.

Law

West Bengal Congress moves Supreme Court against Election Commission’s SIR process

OpIndia Staff - 10 November, 2025

The West Bengal Congress has moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, citing concerns about transparency. The plea seeks prompt intervention as the state prepares for Assembly elections in 2026.

Adani Power wins tender to build new 2400 MW thermal power plant in Bihar by offering lowest tariff, state govt calls the bid “highly...

OpIndia Staff - 7 November, 2025

The Bihar government awarded the 2,400 MW Bhagalpur (Pirpainti) power project to Adani Power Ltd after a competitive bidding process in which the Ahmedabad-based...

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