Defeat is easy to diagnose in hindsight; post-mortems are harder when the patient is still breathing. Yet within 48 hours of the 2025 debacle, the three main opposition forces in Bihar—CPI(ML), RJD and Congress—each set up internal review committees, their conclusions strikingly similar: the NDA did not win, the opposition lost by omission. The raw … Read more
On 15 November 2025, exactly 22 years before India celebrates the centenary of Independence, Bihar released a 312-page blueprint that reads like a fusion of Singapore’s land-use plan and California’s climate mandate, sprinkled with the earthy pragmatism of a state that still sends more migrant workers than any other. The document, officially called “Bihar@100—Antyodaya to … Read more
Quinoa has enjoyed a decade-long free run as the super-food darling of yoga moms and Keto bros, retailing at $12 a pound despite tasting like cardboard that has been left out in the rain. Bihar intends to change that narrative with a rival that is lighter on the palate, higher in tryptophan, and carries the … Read more
On 21 November 2025, IIT-Patna signed a term-sheet that sounded almost fictional for a land-locked state famous for its rustic charm: a 28-nanometre research fab, a 150-mm gallium-nitride pilot line, and a chip-packaging facility—all inside a 52-acre green-field campus at Bihta, 42 minutes from Patna airport. The price tag: ₹1,800 crore over five years, 55 … Read more
For two generations, the phrase “Bihar” and “medical seat” appeared in the same sentence only if accompanied by the word “exodus.” The state, home to 130 million people, until recently produced just 900 MBBS graduates a year—fewer than Kerala, which has one-fourth the population. Private colleges charged donation rates that could buy a flat in … Read more
The road from Dhibra block to the high school in Auraiya village cuts through a pocket of Jamui district that still figures in the home ministry’s list of LWE (Left-Wing Extremism) affected areas. Until last year, the most common sight at dawn was a column of boys trudging barefoot, steel lunchboxes clanking against their thighs, … Read more
Land is the one commodity Bihar cannot manufacture. With a population density of 1,106 persons per square km—four times the national average—every acre is either under paddy, occupied by a homestead, or tangled in litigation that dates back to the Zamindari Abolition Act. Yet the state needs to add 4,000 megawatts of renewable capacity by … Read more
If you mention Bihar to a Delhi foodie, the first image that pops up is a plate of sizzling littis served with ghee-drowned chokha. What does not come to mind is a 200-container-a-day logistics park, refrigerated reefer trucks humming at –18 °C, or a vacuum-packaging line that can turn makhana into a ₹499 quinoa-killer on … Read more
When Adobe Systems vice-president Shanmugh Natarajan stepped off the Indigo flight at Patna airport on 12 August 2025, he carried only a cabin bag and a PowerPoint presentation that would have sounded like stand-up comedy five years earlier: a proposal to build an artificial-intelligence research lab inside the IIT-Patna campus and train one lakh schoolchildren … Read more
Elections are won on emotive slogans, but they are consolidated in the fine print of government resolutions that rarely trend on Twitter. While cameras focused on Narendra Modi’s Patna rally and Lalu Prasad’s rustic wisecracks, the Bihar cabinet quietly approved a welfare-package expansion so comprehensive that it will touch the everyday life of every household … Read more