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On December 6, 1956 Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar passed away after a brief illness. It is being observed as solemn Pari Nirvan of Dr Ambedkar. Nirvana is the process of enlightenment. Pari Nirvana or Maha Pari Nirvana is the term used to signify the day of the final departure and attaining ultimate enlightenment, according to Buddhist traditions.

The BJP conducted a high-voltage campaign in the just-concluded Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election, the results of which are awaited. Fresh from their victory in the Dubbaka assembly by-election, which they snatched from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the BJP conducted a vicious communal campaign spearheaded by its national leadership ranging from Amit Shah to Adityanath.

Goa: Stephen Eze scored an opportunistic equaliser in the 85th minute to enable Jamshedpur hold Hyderabad to a 1-1 draw in their Hero Indian Super League at Tilak Maidan, on Wednesday.

NOIDA, UP: Young amateur from Hyderabad Sneha Singh, shot one-under 71, the only under par round of the day. to emerge sole leader on the opening day of the seventh leg as the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Women's football in India has come a long way forward and now we can compete against "high-profile opponents", opined national team captain Ashalata Devi.

Fatorda, Goa: Mohun Bagan start favourite as they take on Odisha in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium, here on Thursday.

The political confrontation over the three new agricultural legislations is no more a mere confrontation between the NaMo regime and food growing farmers. New political dimensions are added to it with the Union Home Minister Ameet Shah stirring out of hibernation for ten months to resolve the differences of the regime with farmers. Determined farmers though refused to allow him space to prove his political abilities, the confrontation is continuing over the farm bills. The Prime Minister was not expected to initiate efforts to pacify as it has to come as a climax. Surprisingly the agriculture minister was not summoned to satisfy farmers nor the law minister to explain away the compulsions for enactments.

With RBI’s Internal Working Group submitting their recommendation that Corporate Houses and Big Business Houses can be allowed as promoters of Banks, a lot of debate is going on. To us in AIBEA, it is not very difficult – rater it is very easy - to come to the conclusion that allowing entry of Corporates to run their own Banks is a very bad idea because, we have our bitter experiences.

Representatives of 35 farmers’ organisations rejecting Modi government’s offer to set up a new committee which would include the agriculture experts and economists to look into issues, has not come as a surprise. Narendra Modi deputing his ministers to talk to the agitating farmers had made it explicit that he was playing to the gallery, was not at all serious in resolving the farmers’ crisis, tried to send the message that he was concerned of the miseries of the farmers, but in reality it was his machination to test the perseverance and patience of the farmers.

After tasting success in the recently concluded Bihar elections, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul (AIMIM) led by Hyderabad MP Assaduddin Owaisi is now concentrating on West Bengal — where polls are just 5 months away. The state has around 27 per cent Muslim population — and MIM’s main aim is to win this section.