On his three-day Bihar visit, Amit Shah is set to chair a crucial meeting in Purnea on India-Nepal border concerns. He has stressed removing encroachments and tackling infiltration in border districts

Gangster-turned-politician and JD(U) candidate Anant Kumar Singh, currently in jail for an alleged murder, won Bihar’s Mokama Assembly seat by a margin of 28,206 votes, defeating RJD’s Veena Singh. Despite his arrest ahead of polling, Singh secured 91,416 votes, continuing his family’s decades-long hold on the constituency