After a gap of seven years, the state government had issued a notification for the recruitment of 660 Women Supervisors. The announcement lit a spark of hope among six lakh candidates, many of whom had spent years preparing for government jobs.

In a potential embarrassment for the Congress, its leader Kanhaiya Kumar and Purnia MP Pappu Yadav were stopped from boarding an open van which had Rahul Gandhi, RJD Chief Tejashwi Yadav and some other leaders on it.

Finally, after the debacle with the joint statement with the SCO just a few days ago, and with increasing domestic pressure regarding India’s diplomatic outreach, the BRICS declaration strongly condemned the gruesome Pahalgam attacks.