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Battle for Bihar: High-stakes final phase to decide fate of 1,300 candidates

India, Nov. 11 -- The high-stakes battle for Bihar will end on Tuesday as 122 assembly constituencies across 20 districts go to polls in the second and final phase of the state elections, deciding the... Read More


Bihar votes for 122 seats in concluding phase today

PATNA, Nov. 11 -- The high-stakes battle for Bihar will end on Tuesday as 122 assembly constituencies across 20 districts go to polls in the second and final phase of the state elections, deciding the... Read More


Campaign closes, Bihar now set for decisive denouement

PATNA, Nov. 10 -- Curtains came down on campaigning for the second and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections on Sunday evening, bringing to a close a nearly month-long fierce political battle th... Read More


Campaigning ends for final phase of Bihar assembly polls; voting on Tuesday

India, Nov. 9 -- Curtains came down on campaigning for the second and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections on Sunday evening, bringing to a close a nearly month-long fierce political battle tha... Read More


A conservative state sets trend: Women outnumbered men in first phase polling

PATNA, Nov. 9 -- Bihar's first phase of assembly elections on November 6 witnessed a striking electoral shift - women voters outnumbered men at the polling booths across several districts, reaffirming... Read More


Women outvote men in first phase of Bihar polls: What it reveals

India, Nov. 8 -- Bihar's first phase of assembly elections on November 6 witnessed a striking electoral shift - women voters outnumbered men at the polling booths in nearly all the 18 districts, barri... Read More


Urbanisation slow in Bihar as politics pivots upon rural roots

PATNA, Nov. 6 -- Bihar, long labelled as one of India's "BIMARU" states - an acronym coined by demographer Ashish Bose in the 1980s for Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh - continues ... Read More


Migrant workers likely to sway Bihar polls with rising aspirations

VAISHALI, Nov. 4 -- A frail 50-year-old Suresh Paswan, a construction worker from Vaishali district, has spent the last two decades in Bengaluru - not by choice, but by compulsion. Poverty and illiter... Read More


In Lalganj, UK-educated don's daughter fight for legacy

LALGANJ (VAISHALI), Nov. 3 -- At just 29, Shivani Shukla, the Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) candidate from Lalganj, stands out in Bihar's gritty political battlefield - not just for her youth and simpl... Read More


BJP takes a dig at Oppn alliance amid deal delay

PATNA, Oct. 20 -- Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal on Sunday took a dig at the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) over its internal tussles in seat-sharing for the upcoming assembly elections, comparin... Read More