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.

US Customs and Border Protection will expand its biometric tracking, photographing nearly all non-US citizens entering or departing the country. This new rule, effective soon, aims to enhance national security and combat fraudulent travel by creating a comprehensive facial-recognition database. It eliminates previous age exemptions and applies to all non-citizens, including lawful permanent residents.