As Nitish Kumar heads to the Rajya Sabha, paving the way for Bihar to get its first BJP Chief Minister, party leaders feel that the ripple effect would be felt in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, which will see Assembly polls next year. According to Uttar Pradesh BJP leaders, installing a BJP CM in Bihar could help…
In a signal to its up-and-coming leadership across India, the Congress on Thursday surprised many as it announced three fresh faces for the Rajya Sabha polls to be held on March 16 for 37 vacancies across 10 states. The party’s three new faces include a Dalit leader in Haryana, a grassroots leader in Tamil Nadu…
The sudden exit of Nitish Kumar from Bihar politics has caught many in the Janata Dal (United) by surprise, as they were of the view that his son Nishant Kumar would be sent to the Rajya Sabha and gradually step into his father’s shoes. The script changed on Wednesday afternoon, with a strong buzz that…
2 min readPatnaMar 5, 2026 01:29 PM IST First published on: Mar 5, 2026 at 01:29 PM IST As Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar officially announced that he was seeking nomination to the Rajya Sabha, dozens of JD(U) workers and supporters protested against the party’s national working president, Sanjay Kumar Jha, and Union Minister Rajeev…
3 min readShimlaMar 5, 2026 01:19 PM IST In a surprise move, the Congress on Thursday declared Kangra District Congress Committee (DCC) president Anurag Sharma as its candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Himachal Pradesh. Sharma, 47, who is also the president of the Bir-Billing Paragliding Association, will file his nomination on Thursday,…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he would file nomination papers for the coming Rajya Sabha elections, saying it had long been his wish to serve in all four legislative bodies in the country. This clears the decks for a new Chief Minister, likely from the BJP, to take charge. In a post…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday officially announced he is going to Rajya Sabha. In a statement issued around 11 am, Kumar thanked the people of Bihar for their support, recounted his tenure as the CM of Bihar and promised he would remain with the people of the state as a member of the…
On February 24, the Congress government in Telangana demolished over 170 houses on 31 acres of land at Vinoba Navodaya Colony in Khammam district. While 4,000-odd police personnel were called in to oversee the demolition, which several families resisted, the Opposition parties Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and BJP condemned the move. On March 2, however,…
While the campaigning is yet to get underway in the poll-bound states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam, the incumbent governments there are already pushing the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes as part of their election messaging. Their measures include expansion of existing programmes through the final Budgets as their terms come to…
4 min readNew Delhi, PatnaUpdated: Mar 4, 2026 11:01 PM IST GIVEN Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s failing health, this was on the cards even when he was sworn in as CM last November after a landslide win for the NDA but decks were being cleared for his exit Wednesday. In a sudden turn of…