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After the pique of Cyclone Roanu rains took a backseat over the state. The sun began to glide in many parts of the Coastal Andhra. During the past few days, secluded pockets of Coastal Andhra were also observing heatwaves. Temperatures were being recorded well above the 40°C. People are urge for some relief in the form of rains. East India receives extensive pre-monsoon showers.

During the last 24 hours, good showers have lashed parts of Coastal Andhra. Temperatures have also taken a immerse emanate in the fade of heatwaves from the region. A cyclonic circulation is over West Bengal and adjoining Jharkhand and Bihar. Also a crib is expanding across Odisha up to coastal Andhra. Rains are likely to continue for another 24 hours, and heavy rains will be tight over the coastal areas of Andhra the possibility of light showers over the rest of the state cannot be ruled out.
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Voting has ended in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states where BJP is trying to a gain a foothold. Polls were also held in the Pondicherry. More than 80 million voters eligible to cast ballots in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.Regional parties were dominated in Tamil Nadu, while Communists are trying comeback in Kerala. Polls have already been held in West Bengal and Assam in this April and May. All the votes will be counted on Thursday. Shortly before polls closed turnout was put at 69 % in Tamil Nadu while Kerala recorded 70 %.

Elections were held in 30 seats in Pondicherry where Chief Minister N Rangaswamy embrace breakaway Congress party workers, is seeking re-election. In Tamil Nadu State polling was held in 232 seats, the BJP is seen as having little chance against the regional Parties AIADMK and DMK who are locked in a vicious contest. The DMK is trying to grab power from the rival AIADMK party. The BJP is trying to secure a toehold in Kerala which has been ruled by either Congress led governments or a  bloc of left-wing parties. Last week Prime Minister Narendra Modi comparison of Kerala with Somalia on infant mortality rates angered politicians and social media users.
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An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale struck Myanmar on Wednesday evening. According to initial reports the earthquake measured 7.0, United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the intensity was 6.9 on the Richter scale. Vibration were felt across Patna, Kolkata and several parts of Eastern India. Vibration were also felt in several parts of Assam and Odisha. The vibration were felt at Eden Gardens where Kolkata Knight Riders faceoff against the Mumbai Indians in the IPL. At the Kolkata Metro station cracks were seen in walls after the tremors, according to reports there was minor damage in high rise buildings in Guwahati. Delhi and several parts of eastern India were rocked by tremors.  According to National Centre of Seismology (NCS) the earthquake occurred at 7:25 PM at the depth of 134 km.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today declared that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed in the examination and said the budget promises 'acchhe din' only for those having black money. There is nothing in the budget for farmers or any other section of society. People got only disappointment from the budget of the modi govt nitish. Mocking Modi who had yesterday said he had an exam today with reference to the budget, Nitish said, result is out and he failed to pass. Nitish also targeted the Centre for the compliance window for blackmoney holders. The budget promises ‘Acchhe din’ only for holders of black money. By giving amnesty to holders of black money that they could pay only 45% of the total amount and can do ‘mauj’ (enjoy) with rest 55 % the Modi government has in a way given license to convert black money into white, he said. Is this what you had promised on black money before 2014 election After two years your government has come up with an amnesty scheme for holders of black money, Nitish whose rivalry with the Modi is an open secret, said. 
He took a potshot at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley too and said, While presenting budget in Parliament, he did not look like a man knowing well about economics and rather appeared as a lawyer who put a lot of emphasis during his speech on dispute settlement. Kumar said Bihar felt let down as there was neither reference of any allocation of money for the special package of INR 1.25 lakh crore and INR 40,000 crore of earlier packages nor a mention of BRGF (Backward Regional Grant Fund) in the Annexure which is a bonafide right of the state in the wake of creation of Jharkhand out of it.
The Bihar Chief Minister also took a jibe at assertions that the budget plans to double famers’ income in five years, saying “even if this happens, what will they get? Farmers’ monthly income presently stands at about INR 1,500-2,000. What will they get if it doubles up to INR 3,500-4,000 in next five years? What about the poll promise of giving an MSP to farmers after adding 50 % on the input cost.  he asked. He said Bihar would lose around INR 10,000 crore in 2016-17 due to less allotment to the state in accordance with 14th Finance Commission recommendations. Likewise, in rural roads under PMGSY, Bihar had sent a proposal of INR 4,000 crore for 2015-16 and it got only INR 2,781 crore in the budget, he said.
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 Citing the latest Niti Aayog report showing Bihar as the fastest growing state in terms of gross state domestic product (GSDP) clocking a growth rate of 17.06 per cent in 2014-15, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said it has proved BJP leaders "wrong" on their claims about the state's development made during Assembly poll. 

"Our rivals blamed us for slowing of development and development coming to a halt in recent times...we had answered their accusations with figures during election...the publication of data (in Niti Aayog report) has proved the blame as rootless," Kumar told reporters. 

"Our stand has been vindicated," he said. 

"We have been saying all along that Bihar has been moving ahead with the motto of development with justice," an elated Chief Minister said reacting to the latest report of Niti (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog. 

According to the report published first by domestic rating agency Brickwork, Bihar's growth rate of 17.6 per cent was in terms of gross state domestic product (GSDP). 

It was followed by Madhya Pradesh at 16.86 per cent and Goa at 16.43 per cent. 

Kumar said they had strongly contested the report published during elections on ease of doing business (which had put Bihar at the bottom and Gujarat and other BJP ruled states on top). 

"The report had come without seeking data from the state during elections to 'insult and defame' Bihar...everything will be clear slowly and gradually," he said slamming BJP. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and other BJP and NDA leaders had attacked Nitish Kumar on the development issue during election campaigning. 

The PM's assertion at an election rally that while BJP ruled states like Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan had come out of the "BIMARU Raj" tag, Bihar could also achieve it if a saffron party government was formed in the state was strongly contested by Nitish Kumar. 

Buoyed by the Niti Aayog latest report, Kumar said, "Our efforts will be to continue with the good performance... development has picked speed and there is no chance of it stopping."
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After registering a thumping win as reflected in the Bihar elections results 2015, against the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today declared Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar will continue as Bihar chief minister despite his party emerging as the table topper, while he will launch a nation-wide stir against the “communal” Modi government.
Exultant after the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance appeared on course to a resounding victory, a jubilant Prasad claimed continuance of the Modi government will “break the nation into pieces”.
Putting up a stunning show, the JD(U)-led grand alliance won a thumping majority in the Bihar assembly after inflicting a crushing defeat on the BJP-led NDA.
Nitish Kumar thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress presidentSonia Gandhi after they called to congratulate him on putting the JD(U)-led grand alliance on the road to victory in the assembly polls. “Just received a phone call from the Prime Minister congratulating me..@narendramodi thank you Modiji,” he said in a series of tweets.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi basking under the glow of ‘success’ at the hustings took a a dig at Narendra Modi over NDA’s setback in Bihar saying PM should “step on the accelerator or people will throw him out of the driver’s seat”. He declined to comment on whether his party would participate in the new government under Nitish Kumar. “Since Modiji has become Prime Minister, there have been only promises. Start the work. One year has passed and your car is not starting,” he added.

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There are unmistakable signs of hardening of political positions in India in the wake of the Bihar election results that have given a clear mandate to Nitish Kumar-led RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance. Nitish Kumar would now emerge as a political fulcrum around which all anti-BJP and anti-Modi political forces would converge.
Though Nitish Kumar owes his victory to a powerful social coalition of backward classes and Muslims, he would be heading an inherently fragile coalition of three parties which are quite different from one another temperamentally and culturally. As he gets ready to take over as chief minister for the fifth time, he has an unenviable task of managing extreme contradictions on his hands.
A seasoned politician that he is, Kumar is aware of his challenges and may be well-prepared for the task ahead. But that would be less of a challenge as compared to managing the larger-than-life he would acquire for stopping Modi in his track in a critical state like Bihar. The results would invariably throw a question: how serious a challenge he would be for the RSS-BJP combine?
In the context of this election, it would be naïve to believe that it was fought on the planks of ideology and development. Bihar election should be a sign of worry for the democracy. It was case where, to use Plato’s words, “masses were moved by emotion rather than reason and by short-term self-interest rather than long-term wisdom”. The Grand Alliance and the BJP competed with each other to pander to such emotions.
In fact, Nitish Kumar was never an ideological challenge to the RSS-BJP combine or Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His opposition to Modi has much to do with his personal ambition than aversion to Modi’s ideology. It became evident the moment he roped in Modi’s strategist Prashant Kishore to his core team with the hope that he would employ the same tools of propaganda which Kishore used in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Kishore and his team rose up to the expectation and beat the BJP in its own game of deception and propaganda.There was a brazen attempt to mobilise voters on the basis of identity. Nitish forged a formidable Muslim-Yadav-Kurmi coalition to which a significant section of the extremely backward classes (EBCs) got drawn. The BJP harped on religious polarisation but could not project itself convincingly as protector of the EBC’s political interests. Nitish’s credential as an impeccable chief minister also helped him emerge as a more reliable leader than a motley group of upper caste central ministers who became the interface between Modi and the people of Bihar.
But strengthening of castes would not necessarily defang communalism. In Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, caste consolidation by regional parties espousing secularism has often proved to be too vulnerable to mobilization of people on communal lines. This was amply demonstated in UP where Dalits and Yadav deserted their political camps and voted for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in the post-Muzaffarnagar riot phase. Similarly in Bihar, the BJP got substantial votes of Yadavs in the Lok Sabha as their leader Lalu Yadav was out of contest. In the ultimate analysis, casteism practiced by regional leaders of Hindi heartland never proved to be an effective antidote to mobilisation on religious lines.
In such a setting, the victory of Nitish Kumar in the assembly election would not change the grammar of Indian politics. Those who worked with Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar testify that both share many common traits. Both are meticulous, honest, hardworking and come from a humble background. In their respective settings, both are often accused of being “arrogant and authoritative”. Their politics may diverge but it leaves the scope of the twain meeting in future.
However, the Bihar election would mark the beginning of silly season where logic and rationality would be expendable. The anti-Modi rhetoric would be amplified to a din where the discourse would often degenerate to mutual recrimination. Such a situation is often a precursor to further radicalisation of society. This was convincingly confirmed by the fact that India’s biggest electoral mandate won by Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 rode on the wave of communal consolidation.
Similarly, VP Singh’s emergence as a counter to Rajiv Gandhi proved to be politically ephemeral as its ideological base was no distinct from the Congress, which bounced back to assert itself. As the jubilation in Patna fades away and Nitish Kumar occupies the official bungalow at Anne Marg, he would certainly be conscious of the fragility of this electoral victory more than anybody else.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a scathing attack on RJD chief Lalu Prasad on his home turf, calling him a "tantrik" (occultist) and his party "Rashtriya Jadu Tona Party" as he reached out to the youth and weaker sections, promising a six-point programme for the state's development.

Amid indications that the caste and reservation debate dominating the polls scenario here could be detrimental to NDA's prospects, the Prime Minister raised the development pitch promising "bijli-paani-sadak" (electricity, road and water) and "kamai, padhai, and dawai" (earning, education and medicines) for each family in the state.

Blaming "Bade bhaai (Lalu) and Chhote Bhaai (Nitish Kumar) for problems plaguing the state, Modi insisted that the only plank NDA has is of "development".

Hitting back at the grand alliance's "Bihari versus Bahari (Bihari versus outsider)" barb to attack BJP, which is fighting the polls under the leadership of Modi and Amit Shah, the Prime Minister took up the issues of migration and unemployment among youths.

In remarks laced with sarcasm, he said that he wants to ask from the "very respectable democrat (param adarniya loktantrik) Nitish ji and the "biggest occult practitioner (tantrik) Lalu ji that who made the Bihar youths outsiders by forcing them out of the state in search of livelihood.

"People of Bihar want to know who made the youths of Bihar outsiders (Bahari). Who pushed my youths of Bihar outside. They destroyed two generations of youths in Bihar in last 25 years," Modi said amid renewed attempts by the BJP to consolidate youth voters in Bihar, which it expects will vote beyond the caste and community lines.

Ridiculing Lalu's election meeting barbs at him, Modi said, "Laluji you are free to sacrifice black or white pigeon or blow smoke or soil. If you have to do this rename your party Rashtriya Janta Dal as Rashtriya Jadu Tona Party (party of occult practices) and being the head of the party, you will be the biggest 'tantrik' in the world."

Democracy functions with the blessings of people not with tantrums of a tantrik, the Prime Minister said, asking people whether those with an "eighteenth century mindset" can develop Bihar and asked the electorate "to select and wipe out" such people from the political landscape of Bihar.

Kumar had yesterday courted controversy as a video of his meeting a 'tantrik' went viral, providing fresh ammunition to his rivals, who claimed that he was resorting to occult to get rid of foe-turned-friend Lalu Yadav.

Taking potshots over the incident, Modi said so far he knew only three players in Mahagthbandhan--Bada Bhai Lalu, Chhota Bhai Nitish and Madam Sonia Gandhi.
"But for the first time I came to know there is also a fourth player, a tantrik. Now there are four players in this alliance of grand opportunism."

Wondering whether such a "farce" can be allowed to go on with democracy, Modi, without naming the RJD chief, attacked him for threatening a mike mechanic during his rally in Gaya and portrayed it as an attack on the weaker sections.

Projecting his modest background of a tea-seller, Modi said, "I saw an incident on TV recently that shocked me. There are people who still treat themselves as king (raja-maharaja). When a leader of Bihar came to deliver his speech, he started snubbing the mikewalla and said he will throw him on the ground.

"So far you have not come to power and you are talking of throwing the children of the poor on the ground. The mikewallh may be one individual for you. For me he belongs to my community. Will you torture the children of the poor like this? Will you thrown them on the ground."

Modi also stated that some railway officers used to bash up tea sellers earlier. BJP has of late been projecting Modi, who himself belongs to Extremely backward community of 'ghaanchi teli' as the first PM on his own strength from EBC category.

BJP is banking big on EBCs in this election in Bihar. Modi said that Lalu is labouring only to promote his two sons in politics.

"He is not bothered about anybody else than their family members," he alleged.

Targeting the Mahagathbandhan for closure of chocolate factories in the region, he promised that if the NDA came to power, he will ask the state government to form a committee to chalk out plans for industrialisation of the state to generate employment for youth, who he said, are being forced to leave their old parents and migrate to earn two square meals.
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In continuing operations to enforce the Model Code of Conduct, more than Rs 10.5 lakh unaccounted cash and 3,112 litres of illegal liquor were seized from different parts of the state on Saturday.
Additional Chief Election Officer R Lakshmanan said Rs 4.52 lakh Nepali currency was seized by Sashtra Seema Bal(SSB) in East Champaran district and one person arrested in this regard.
Giving details, he said Rs 5,45,895 was seized in Muzaffarpur and Rs 5,02,900 in Madhubani district.
Lakshamanan said more than Rs 2.54 crore unaccounted cash has been seized so far during the special drive in view of Bihar Assembly elections.
He said 3,112 litres of illegal liquor was seized during the day. With this, a total of 2,13,105 litres of illegal liquor has so far been seized in the state.
He said total 651 cases have been registered for defacing public property and 112 cases of misuse of vehicles.
Till date 648 arms/weapons and 2,388 cartridges have been seized and total 52,277 non-bailable warrants have been executed so far, he added. 
Source:Rediff
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Opinion polls show Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a close election battle in the country's third-most populous state, Bihar, where defeat would dent his chances of consolidating power and speeding up economic recovery.
Victory in Bihar's state election would help Modi build his party's strength in the Rajya Sabha, where its lack of a majority has allowed the opposition to block economic reforms he sees as vital for jobs and growth.
A survey by pollsters Cicero released late on Thursday showed Modi's Bharatiya Jananta Party (BJP) winning a narrow majority in the elections in one of the country's poorest states. The vote will be in five phases from Oct. 12 to Nov. 5.
The BJP's lead was within the poll's margin of error, making the forecast a technical tie. A separate poll by C-Voter this week said the BJP faced defeat.
"This election is going to be very close and if Modi loses, then national politics will take another turn," Satish Misra, a political analyst at the Observer Research Foundation.
"Modi would be considerably weakened, both within the party and among the public. His credibility has been eroding fast over the last few months."
Members of the Rajya Sabha are selected according to parties' strength in state assemblies.
The Bihar election is a contest between a BJP-led alliance and a coalition of regional parties which campaign for the empowerment of lower caste Hindus and minority Muslims.
Bihar's big rural population will provide a crucial test of support for Modi in the countryside, where most Indians live. He has been criticised for not helping distressed farmers or ensuring stable crop prices.
The Cicero poll showed the BJP would win 125 out of 243 seats in Bihar's assembly and the coalition of other parties would win 106 seats.
Any coalition needs 122 seats for a majority. Calculating seats is difficult in India's first-past-the-post electoral system.
Cicero said the BJP alliance would win 42 percent of votes, compared with 40 percent for its opponents. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.
The C-Voter survey showed the BJP winning a maximum of 110 seats while its rivals would win as many as 132 seats. C-Voter said the BJP would win 40 percent of votes and its main rivals would win 43 percent.
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