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The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is quietly getting ready to face the Assembly polls scheduled for early next year. With just a few months left, the party is sorting out its internal problems, first by declaring the incumbent chief minister E. Palaniswamy (EPS) as its chief ministerial candidate, side-lining the other claimant and the deputy chief minister O. Pannerselvam (OPS).

New Delhi: "It is going to be very crucial" admitted Delhi Capitals pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada as his team takes on Sunrisers Hyderabad in their 12th fixture of IPL in Dubai on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Promising Jr Women's Hockey Team forward Suman Devi Thoudam says that her aim and dream is to represent India at the senior level.

New Delhi: Injured opener Rohit Sharma and pacer Ishant Sharma were not considered for selection while leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy was the only new face in the Indian T20 squad as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday named three squads for the upcoming tour of Australia.

The union government decision on October 22 to launch the new series for retail inflation for industrial workers shifting the base year to 2016 from 2001 has come suddenly to the central trade unions. They are still studying the implications of the Government decision. The centre, however, said that dearness allowance, which is linked to the Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW), will remain unchanged for now. But it may undergo change in future, indications were given.

BHOPAL: Election propaganda in Madhya Pradesh has turned into highly polemical. Top party leaders are hurling abuses against each other. The language is not only unparliamentarily but is also derogatory. Every day new abuse is coined. Kamal Nath without naming Imarti Devi, now a minister, described her as “item”. BJP leader protested against it and claimed that the word “item” was derogatory and demanded apology but Kamal Nath declined to do so. He claimed that it was not derogatory. But difficulty increased when Rahul Gandhi remarked that it was not in good taste. While controversy about the term “item” was still continuing, Imarti Devi herself hurled abuse against Kamal Nath describing him a vagabond (Kabadi) from Kolkatta. She also called his sisters and female members of his family as “item”.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat could no more hide his intentions and control his feeling and on Sunday he publically confessed “India is a "Hindu Rashtra" and Hindutva is the essence of its self-hood.

The Kashmir scene is going from bad to worse. The release of the arrested leaders has opened a Pandora’s box, eliminating the possibility of a return to normality in the foreseeable future. If the BJP presumed that a relaxation of the harsh measures of the last one year will lead to an easing of the situation, it was grossly mistaken.

The CBI has been declared unwelcome guests by half a dozen states, the latest being Maharashtra, which recently revoked the general consent for the central agency to investigate cases in its territory without the need to seek the state government’s permission in individual cases.

The assembly poll, in Bihar the first phase of which begins on October 28, has assumed unusual significance in the national politics signalling at last some possibility of a big anti-BJP backlash if the outcome on November 10 becomes favourable to the RJD led Gathbandhan. The electoral campaign in Bihar has undergone many twists and turns in the last three weeks since the poll dates were mentioned. Now in the final days before the three phase polling starts, the ground has become unusually volatile with the RJD led front getting unprecedented response from the voters which has stunned the Front leaders themselves.