As the BJP-JDU alliance preps for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, tackling the RJD-Congress campaign is only one of its challenges. An equally big task is to keep NDA’s house in order by finalising a seat-sharing agreement with partners

Images this week of PM Modi holding hands with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a summit hosted by China’s Xi Jinping seemed to confirm what many experts have already concluded – the US has stumbled in its effort to draw India into its diplomatic orbit.

A decorated Indian-American Amit Kshatriya has been named as NASA’s new ‘exploration-focussed’ associate administrator, the US space agency announced here.