Japan’s embattled governing party has a new leader: former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female prime minister.

There are two seats that the BJP is likely to offer to Maithili Thakur – Madhubani and Aligarh in Darbhanga.

Suhag Shukla said the diaspora is not a ‘proxy’ of the Indian government and that leaders like Shashi Tharoor shouldn’t expect automatic support