Bihar seems to have a penchant of being in the news be it owing to JP’s call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state may.find itself in the news again soon post a new leader whose political party is part of the NDA coalition has thrown his hat in the ring for the chief minister’s post even as the state inches closer to election.
The earliest that simultaneous elections can be held under the existing Bills is 2034, said BJP MP and chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament on Bills relating to ‘One Nation, One Election’, P P Chaudhary.
A stern message to mend their ways have been sent to the party activists by state CPI (M) leadership. Reports of intra-party squabbles have alerted the party leadership.
The INDIA bloc on Tuesday got its act together as 16 political parties led by the Congress in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded a special session of Parliament on the Pahalgam terror attack and the subsequent events, including Operation Sindoor.
22 year old Pune Law student and influencer Sharmistha panoli’s communally charged video response to operation sindoor led to her arrest by the Kolkata Police in Gurugram. Panoli has over 175000 followers on Instagram and is known for making short form content, Reels, usually littered in abusive language.
Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) would form a government in West Bengal after the 2026 Assembly election, Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (June 1, 2025) said that the time of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s rule was coming to an end.
“Didi (Mamata Banerjee), your rule has come to an end. In 2026, Bharatiya Janata Party will form the government. Didi, I dare you to hold elections without violence and rigging, and the people of Bengal will ensure that you lose your deposit,” he said.
A delegation of 10 MLAs from the NDA, comprising 8 from the BJP, 1 from the NPP, and 1 Independent, met Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on May 28 to stake their claim to form a new government in the state. Led by BJP MLA Thokchom Radheshyam Singh, the group submitted a proposal to end the President’s Rule, imposed after the resignation of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh following 20 months of ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki Zo communities.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led cabinet approved a controversial scheme to grant arms licenses to indigenous people in “vulnerable and remote” areas, particularly in Muslim-majority districts like Dhubri, Nagaon, Morigaon, Barpeta, South Salmara, and Goalpara. The policy, officially titled the ‘Special Scheme for Grant of Arms Licenses to Original Inhabitants and Indigenous Indian Citizens’, will targets areas where indigenous communities are minorities, especially near the Bangladesh border.
Several Muslim leaders of the Congress in Dakshina Kannada, right from booth-level to state-level, on Thursday, announced their resignations from their party positions in protest of the government’s alleged failure to contain the series of ‘communal murders’ in the district and sidelining community leaders.
Modi will lay the foundation stone for an ₹1,010-crore CGD project in Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts and later address a public rally in Alipurduar, BJP leaders said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Thursday to lay the foundation stone for a gas distribution project and address a rally in Alipurduar
