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Hindustan Times Ranchi
The bites to cheer for
Leave the peanuts and papad back in the Permit Room. Finger food is now top nosh. And one Bengaluru bar is hitting new highs
5 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Mixed outcomes for bypoll incumbents
Ruling parties lost half of the eight assembly constituencies that went to bypolls across six states and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, where the ruling National Conference faced a major setback in its first electoral battle since coming to power last year, losing its stronghold Budgam and forfeiting deposit in Nagrota.
3 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Never-ending wait for Bihar’s transformation
Bihar has long functioned asa paradox, a transparent enigma. Its ideas market never loses its sheen, and its caste codes refuse to retire. This duality is not incidental. It is woven into Bihar's political evolution. The state’s public sphere has historically allowed sharp ideological contest-ation, yet its political structures return, almost faithfully, to familiar anchors of caste arithmetic, welfarist governance, and a deep suspicion of unregulated economic mobility. The 2025 election recommits Bihar to this older vocabulary, even as its demographic realities press urgently for a new one.
3 min |
November 15, 2025
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Bihar loss deepens Opposition slump in Hindi-speaking belt since '14 polls
In the 26 assembly elections in North India since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014, the Opposition has won 12.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
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Will now end ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bengal: Modi
Prashant Kishor’s party fails to open account in bipolar contest with little anti-incumbency
1 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Cracks appear in RJD’s M-Y base
The performance of the ‘Mahagathbandhan, or the Grand Alliance — 35 seats at a strike rate of 14.4% — in the Bihar assembly elections was the result of many factors.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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WHAT SWUNG THE VOTE...
Dhrubo Jyoti decodes the factors that worked behind the scenes for the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar
2 min |
November 15, 2025
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11 of 20 strongmen, their relatives make it to House
Nearly a fortnight after his arrest in connection with the murder of a Jan Suraaj Party supporter during the poll campaign, Janata Dal (United) strongman Anant Singh on Friday won the poll from Mokama constituency for the sixth straight time — his third consecutive win while contesting from behind bars.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Coalition calculus fuels sweep for tight-knit NDA
The 2025 assembly election in Bihar was nota typical electoral battle for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); the state was a battleground in more ways than one. The party had to walk a tightrope, balancing its own ascendant graph in the state with the interests of the coalition itis part of, headed by the Janata Dal (United). Italso faced anti-incumbency and a seemingly energised opposition.
3 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Fatigue and resentment among Muslim vote base
If Muslims are considered the second of the two pillars that hold up the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a large part of the reason must be that October afternoon in 1990 when the newly minted chief minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad, decided to stop the raucous Rath Yatra helmed by Lal Krishna Advani in Samastipur and arrest the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
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Ajay Devgn, R Madhavan's fun face-off makes this an enjoyable sequel
Right off the bat, R Madhavan still looks too suave to play a father on screen to a 29-year-old in De De Pyaar De 2 (DDPD 2). The man, at 55, still has the Rehna Hai Terre Dil Mein charm intact!
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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Campaigning
Sometime this autumn, it appeared that the Opposition’s Grand Alliance was peaking at the right time.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Bihar’s trust vote for NDA
Voters endorse Nitish Kumar, backed by the BJP. Grand Alliance, Lalu dynasty face political oblivion
3 min |
November 15, 2025
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Man brags on social media after attacking Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande; (inset) video grab of the incident
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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HC SEEKS CENTRE’S REPLY ON SWAIN’S BLACKLISTING
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice on a petition by Sweden-based academic Ashok Swain challenging the Centre's blacklisting order that bars his entry into India.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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Doubts rise on Cong’s INDIA leadership
The results of the Bihar election, the sheer scale of the Grand Alliance or Maha Gatbandhan’s defeat, and the Congress’ inability to win seats in the Hindi heartland will likely alter the politics of the Opposition INDIA bloc, with a growing clamour for a change in leadership.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
The resurrection of ‘coalition of extremes’ in Bihar politics
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has vanquished the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) or Grand Alliance in Bihar. While elections are rarely a univariate phenomenon, caste is often central to politics in India, and perhaps more so in Bihar.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
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All the ride moves
Before you ride into the sunset on your bike, here’s what you need to know - from one woman rider to another
3 min |
November 15, 2025
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Grand Alliance fails to woo Dalit voters
THE POLL RESULTS UNDERLINE THE MGB'S INABILITY TO WIN OVER VOTERS OUTSIDE THE RJD’S MUSLIM-YADAV VOTE BANK
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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K’taka Police: Bagalkot arson was pre-planned
The police on Friday said the fire that destroyed sugarcane-laden vehicles in Bagalkot district was a pre-planned act of arson, carried out by miscreants who had infiltrated a farmers’ protest and used petrol to set the vehicles ablaze.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Downside to an upgrade
Phones used to be exciting. Now, each new model feels like the same idea rehashed over and over. Why isn’t fun part of the specs anymore?
2 min |
November 15, 2025
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Win will cause ripples far beyond Bihar
The National Democratic Alliance's landslide win in Bihar — of a magnitude comparable to its 2010 win — is likely to cause ripples far beyond the state.
3 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Veteran actor Kamini Kaushal dies at 98, family confirms news
Veteran actor Kamini Kaushal, one of the last surviving stars of Hindi cinema's golden era, passed away on Friday. She was 98.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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‘The Amrita Pritam sketch was difficult to write’
On her book about Punjabis who have had a significant impact on India’s political and cultural life
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Nitish bounces back as miracle man of Bihar
For the past two decades, the difference between being in government and Opposition in Bihar has been Nitish Kumar and his Janata Dal (United), and the support base he and his party have assiduously cultivated, women and people from the so-called extreme backward classes.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
NDA regional allies broaden caste base
Riding the National Democratic Alliance wave, three smaller partners in the coalition—the LJP (RV), HAMS and RLM—won 28 of 40 seats they contested, becoming key to the alliance’s caste arithmetic in a state where voting following such faultlines are politically crucial.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
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College fee unpaid for 2 months: Karisma’s daughter to Delhi HC
{ SUNJAY KAPUR’S WILL CONTEST
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November 15, 2025
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MGB smaller allies draw mixed outcomes
The Bihar elections delivered contrasting outcomes for the Mahagathbandhan’s smaller constituents, with the Indian Inclusive Party (IIP) securing one of the three seats it contested while the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), led by Opposition deputy chief ministerial face Mukesh Sahani, drawing a blank in the 15 constituencies it contested.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
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‘Best-ever performance’: Poll body lauds its chief
Election Commission of India (ECI) officials hailed the conduct of Bihar elections as the “best-ever performance” by the Gyanesh Kumar-led poll body, citing record voter turnout and zero repolls and no appeals during the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Hindustan Times Ranchi
Women, welfare, infra: NDA’s election formula
Analysts say that the Centre’s schemes such as free ration, Ujjwala Yojana, Matru Vandana Yojana, and Lakhpati Didi Yojana may have contributed
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