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Bhubaneswar: Jain University, Karnataka have been on a roll at the Khelo India University Games 2020 here and one of the main reasons for their success is Sahaj Patel.

Senior politicians of JD(U) and LJP, both allies of BJP, confide that the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan have categorically asked the national BJP leaders not to thrust their ideas and dictates which made the BJP lose the Delhi polls last week, on them in Bihar on the plea of guiding the electoral strategy of the NDA.

The Aam Aadmi Party currently is in a jubilant mood. After all, party supremo Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has now established himself as the popular face of Delhiites with a well crafted progressive image aided by soft shades of Hindutva and nationalism, has managed to return to power with a gigantic mandate fighting against the phalanx BJP. Although, the party got 5 seats less this time, this nowhere makes the victory lesser than the previous one, which almost was a clean sweep as AAP won 67 seats out of 70. The reason is that such huge mandates are a kind of black swan event. In spite of this, AAP managed to win 62 seats this time. That's why, this victory is even bigger than that of 2015.

How worried is the RSS about the BJP’s lacklustre electoral performance can be gauged from some of Mohan Bhagwat’s observations in the wake of the Delhi results.

Bernie Sanders's overwhelming victory at Nevada caucus on February 22 is a major development in the present campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidential poll on November 3 this year. Nevada results have given a new perspective to the changes that are taking place in the voting behaviour of the supporters of the Democratic Party and how the Vermont Senator is getting support from all sections of the US population on the basis of his democratic socialist programme.

It took over 10 years for the government to enact a law to introduce goods and services tax (GST), since it was first conceived, to replace the cumbersome indirect tax system. The genesis of the introduction of GST in the country was laid down on February 28, 2006. Unfortunately, it seems that the government’s taxation experts and bureaucrats still managed their way to keep the system complicated resulting in unsatisfactory tax compliance. The GST regime may not have failed. But, few will agree that it is producing the desired result.

Bhubaneshwar: A four-gold medal haul at the swimming pool helped Jain University, Bengaluru, take the early lead in the inaugural Khelo India University Games (KIUG)here on Sunday.

New Delhi: In her maiden appearance at an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) junior circuit event, Chennai’s , Mathan Rajan Hansini put up an impressive performance by bagging the bronze medal in the Mini-Cadet Girls’ Singles category at the Swedish Junior and Cadet Open in Orebro, Sweden yesterday.

New Delhi: Defending champions Rashpal Singh and Jyoti Gawte extended their lease on the respective titles as they overcame a strong field to emerge winners at the IDBI Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon here on Sunday.

Bhubaneswar: Fresh from his big break in the Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger, Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam helped University of Madras romp past Manipur University in the opening round of the Khelo India University Games here on Saturday.