Late on Wednesday night, the BJP announced its third list of 18 candidates, taking the total count of declared candidates to 101, also the number of seats allotted to the party in the final seat-sharing distribution within the NDA for Bihar polls.

Police on Wednesday invoked the stringent National Security Act against the alleged mastermind behind last year’s communal violence here over a court-ordered survey of a Mughal-era mosque in the district.

BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair. 

​BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.