Patna

NDA overcomes stiff challenge to retain power in Bihar

3:12 pm November 11, 2020

Patna: Surmounting anti-incumbency of 15 years, a mutinous former ally, and a spirited challenge from a resurgent opposition that rose from its ashes like proverbial phoenix after the 2019 Lok Sabha poll debacle, Nitish Kumar- led NDA was back in power in Bihar on Wednesday with a slender majority. The ruling coalition won 125 seats […]

7.7 pc turnout till 9 am in third phase of Bihar polls

1:20 pm November 7, 2020

Patna (Bihar): An estimated 7.70 per cent of the total 2.35 crore electors exercised their franchise till 9 am in the 78 assembly seats of Bihar where the third and final phase of elections were underway on Saturday. The poll opened at 7 am in these seats spread across 15 districts of north Bihar. According […]

Patna to Khagaria, first-time voters share excitement, fear of ‘COVID-time polling’

11:18 pm November 3, 2020

Patna: As Bihar election is being conducted amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a section of young first-time voters shared their excitement and apprehension of casting their franchise for the first time in a new normal electoral environment. From capital Patna to far-off Khagaria, many asserted that they “voted to bring change”, while others said pollution, women’s safety and jobs weighed heavy […]

Tejashwi, 4 ministers of Nitish govt in fray in 2nd phase

2:01 pm November 2, 2020

Patna: The stage is set for the second and, arguably, the most crucial of the three phases of Bihar assembly elections in which over 2.85 crore voters are eligible to decide the fate of nearly 1,500 candidates on Tuesday. Voting will take place on November 3 in 94 assembly segments, more than a third of […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Original plan of Patna’s Hardinge Park included statue of Lady Hardinge too: Archives

7:09 pm September 28, 2020

Patna: An eponymous memorial committee set up exactly 107 years ago to build Patna’s famed Hardinge Park had proposed to erect life-size statues of the Viceroy who was instrumental in the creation of the new province of Bihar and Orissa, and also of his wife, according to rare archival documents. Named after Viceroy Lord Hardinge and built as Patna’s first public park, it was […]