1. The NDA is hoping the coming together of three parties dominated by Dalits and OBCs — Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM-S, Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP and Upendra Kushwaha's RLSP — with BJP would bring a major shift in Bihar's caste-based politics, building a formidable block of Dalits, OBCs and upper caste.
2. BJP-ruled Gujarat is the best place in the country to do business, says the World Bank's ranking on ease of doing business in states, a list that has the party-ruled states occupying four of the top five slots.
2. BJP-ruled Gujarat is the best place in the country to do business, says the World Bank's ranking on ease of doing business in states, a list that has the party-ruled states occupying four of the top five slots.
3. Two Indian institutes have for the first time made it to the top 200 list of the world's best universities. The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, has taken the top spot among its Indian counterparts, bagging the 147th rank. The only other Indian institute to make it to the top 200 is Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, ranked 179th this year. It has made great progress from last year when it was ranked 235th in the world.
4. A proposal to declare Nepal a Hindu state was overwhelmingly rejected by the constituent assembly on Monday which reaffirmed that the Hindu-majority nation will remain secular.
