Patna: Prashant Kishor secured a landmark victory in the Bankipur Assembly by-election, marking the first electoral win of the Jan Suraj Party and his own first victory as a candidate. The result is significant because Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for decades, with the BJP (and its predecessor seat, Patna West) winning every election…

New Delhi:  The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed a bill that seeks to tackle the issue of delayed payments to MSMEs by prescribing timelines to ensure faster adjudication of disputes, provide recovery of the settlement agreement, and address their liquidity issues, even as Opposition members continued to disrupt the House. The Upper House was adjourned…

New Delhi: (Aug 3) A video purportedly recorded at Jantar Mantar a day before the CJP’s ‘Sansad Chalo’ protest march on July 20 has surfaced online, showing senior Delhi Police officers asking the organisers to implement adequate crowd-management measures before the gathering swelled. The viral video captures an interaction involving New Delhi Deputy Commissioner of…

Kolkata:  The Congress high command has decided to strengthen its organisational focus on West Bengal and will soon send a team of AICC observers to all organisational districts in the state to assess the party’s grassroots structure, a senior leader of the party said on Monday. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) observers will visit…

New Delhi:  The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to replace an ordinance that increased the number of Supreme Court judges from 34 to 38 without a debate, as opposition members persisted with slogan-shouting over the issues of NEET paper leak and alleged theft of Ram temple donations. Last week, a bill to amend…

Online Desk Amid Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor’s lead in the Bankipur Assembly bypoll, Bihar Minister Shrawon Kumar said the NDA remained confident of victory and urged people to wait for the final result after all 31 rounds of counting. “We are not denying our claim yet. When the results are declared after 31 rounds…

New Delhi:  Following the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak controversy, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has floated a Rs 7.5-crore tender for round-the-clock security services at its headquarters at Minto Road, regional offices at Okhla, storage facilities and other notified locations. According to the tender document, the move aims to safeguard NTA’s personnel, visitors, assets, premises,…

Patna/Bhopal/Ahmedabad: The counting of votes for the crucial by-elections in three BJP-ruled states — Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat — is underway. The election for Bankipur assembly constituency in Bihar, Datia in Madhya Pradesh and Manjalpur in Gujarat, took place on July 30. Jan Suraaj Party candidate Prashant Kishor was leading by a margin of…