Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar today for a record eighth time, forming a government with Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal and other parties as a new "Grand Alliance". After taking oath as Bihar Chief Minister an eighth time, thus continuing in the chair with a change of partners, Nitish Kumar took a shot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the next Lok Sabha elections: "He won in 2014, but will he in 2024?" Airlines will be free to decide what to charge passengers from August 31; the government has ended the limits it had placed on airfares when the pandemic began. The Supreme Court has agreed to Nupur Sharma's request to club all the police cases against her so that she does not have to defend herself in different states.