Choosing to be better late than never in releasing its manifesto for Bihar, the Congress has kept up its stress on youth empowerment and promised employment to one lakh young people every year and pro

The Maoist attack killing six policemen in Bihar’s Sheohar district on Friday night sparked off an intense blame game among the state’s parties on Saturday as security arrangements were beefed up for safe and free execution of Assembly polls in six northern districts a day later.

With Bihar’s second phase of Assembly polls for 45 seats in largely rural areas spread across six northern districts being held on Sunday, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s past magic and present makeover would face their real test due to the sizeable presence of the Yadav and Paswan communities in these former RJD-LJP strongholds.

In Bihar’s ongoing electoral battle between heavyweight rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav, it is the Congress party that seems to be scoring more points in the war of political advertisements playing constantly on the state’s local television channels. Hitting the TV screens just before the Assembly polls began on Thursday, the Congress party’s stinging ad campaigns aim at outwitting the main competition coming from the ruling JD(U)-BJP’s persuasive feel-good ads. While the Congress,

As campaigning for the second phase of Bihar’s Assembly polls reached its final hours on Friday evening, the state’s political arch rivals — chief minister Nitish Kumar of the NDA and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav — were engaged in a satirical slugfest from their campaign podiums.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, will campaign in Bihar for the third and fourth phases of the assembly polls, party leaders said on Saturday.

The first phase of Bihar’s Assembly polls for 47 of its 243 constituencies passed off peacefully amid high security deployment on Thursday, with 54.31 per cent of voters casting their ballots despite

Four incidents of the suspected use of money to influence voters surfaced a day before the Assembly polls begin in Bihar. Unaccounted-for money was recovered from the vehicles of a BJP candidate and two LJP candidates by the police on Thursday and five people were arrested in this connection.

The BJP’s political goat in Bihar has come face to face with nature’s monkeys in almost a tragicomic fashion in Saharsa district, where voting in the first phase of Assembly polls is scheduled for Thursday.

The first of Bihar’s six-phase Assembly polls is beginning on Thursday in 47 constituencies in eight impoverished north-eastern districts in an atypical political atmosphere marked by the absence of any distinct wave to dominate the voters’ hearts and minds as they choose who to vote for.