India

Story gist: Vote counting for the Bihar Assembly elections begins at 8 AM on November 14, 2025, in Bihar, India. Live updates cover the results as they unfold.

Bias summary: Left-leaning NDTV emphasizes live, real-time updates on vote counting, focusing on immediacy and drama. Center outlet The Hindu includes it in a broader morning digest, providing neutral context without hype. Right-leaning coverage is absent, suggesting disinterest or omission of regional election developments from a national conservative perspective.

Story gist: An explosion occurred at Red Fort in Delhi. Police investigation traces explosives to Nuh village and links purchases to a Faridabad module.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like The Hindu frame the story by emphasizing police investigative details, such as reconstructing the suspect’s last hours via 50 cameras, underscoring law enforcement efficiency. Center-leaning BBC adopts a neutral tone, focusing on verified videos of the explosion’s aftermath in Delhi without deeper analysis. Right-leaning perspectives are absent, missing potential emphasis on security threats or communal angles in the probe.

Story gist: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah condemned a car blast in Delhi. He stated that not every Kashmiri is a terrorist in response to the investigation into the explosion.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like NDTV frame the story by specifying ‘Kashmiri Muslim,’ emphasizing potential ethnic and religious discrimination in the blast probe context. Center outlets like Times of India use neutral language, focusing on the CM’s direct quote and condemnation without added qualifiers. Right-leaning perspectives are absent, omitting any emphasis on security threats or terrorism connections.

Story gist: Exit polls from the Bihar assembly elections indicate an edge for the NDA alliance. Tejashwi Yadav, leader of the Mahagathbandhan, predicts his coalition will secure over 160 seats.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like The Hindu emphasize Tejashwi Yadav’s criticism of exit polls as ‘pressure-driven’ and highlight voter turnout as a sign of change, portraying opposition optimism. Center outlets like The Indian Express present a balanced view, noting the NDA’s potential edge alongside Yadav’s counter-prediction without favoring either side. Right-leaning coverage is absent, omitting perspectives that might stress NDA’s projected victory and dismiss opposition claims.

Story gist: Authorities arrested two more doctors from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in connection with the Red Fort blast in Delhi. The suspects were taken to Delhi for questioning, and Al-Falah University faces an audit.

Bias summary: Left-leaning NDTV emphasizes a humanizing detail from the arrested doctor’s flatmate noting no behavioral change post-blast, potentially softening the narrative around suspects. Center outlet The New Indian Express provides neutral procedural facts on arrests and questioning without added context. Right-leaning coverage is absent, missing potential emphasis on security threats, terrorism links, or criticism of investigative delays.