Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushila Karki expanded on Sunday her interim cabinet, which was formed in the wake of a youth-led uprising last month, inducting two ministers seen as popular among young people.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday drove down to the residence of Union minister Chirag Paswan to partake ‘kharna prasad”, which devotees consume before embarking on a gruelling 36-hour-long fast as part of Chhath Puja.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Kanhaiya Kumar and Independent MP Pappu Yadav are among the party’s 40 star campaigners for the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls.