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At the end of the third debate between the presidential candidates in the US, what is becoming increasingly clear is that the race might go in favour of Hillary Clinton and the financial markets are pricing in latter’s victory in their calculations. What does that mean?

For a very long time, the ‘kickers’ of the RSS have been ridiculed. Now the blooming shorts have been replaced by khaki pants. For a long time, knickers have had an intriguing hold over the media. A few years ago, there was chatter that blooming shorts would be replaced which has been done now. It was conjectured that the organization was planning to update its look to appeal to the young. The routine criticism of khaki shorts has had little influence over members of the RSS. Queries of change of attires have always been met with bemusement. It would surprise RSS baiters that sartorial ridicule elicit mirth and not self-censure.

BHOPAL: Arbitrary punishment inflicted on more than a dozen police officers, including the rank of IPS has created a situation of confrontation between the police force and the Madhya Pradesh government. Most of the policemen are angry because the punishment has been given at the instance of the RSS.

LUCKNOW: Ever since chief minister Akhilesh Yadav announced his programme to launch the campaign for Mission 2017 without the approval of the party leadership, he has given the impression that there could be vertical split in the party.

The recent BRICS summit at Goa has taken several far-reaching decisions to boost economic cooperation among the five-nation grouping but has gone largely unnoticed because of the obsession in the media on the issue of terrorism. Combating terrorism is critical to economic well being but tackling it alone will not lead to progress and prosperity.

What is the politics behind the Union government’s proposal to construct a multi-crore futuristic Ramayana museum in Ayodhya? With Uttar Pradesh going to polls early next year, the mythological Ram is back in the political discourse fighting the BJP’s battle with the political parties. BJP of course denies that it is a political agenda but is this for vote catching or is it for promotion of tourism as claimed or is it to satisfy the BJP’s core voters?

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh government has finalised preparations to hold yet another Global Investor Summit on October 22 and 23, 2016. Indore the biggest town, both in terms of population and having adequate infrastructure, has been chosen as the venue of the summit. About 3600 delegates from 26 countries are expected to attend the summit. Earlier summits, barring one which was held in Khajuraho, were also held in Indore.

The spectre of Dr Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai, the last communist president of Afghanistan, haunts the dens of increasingly isolated CIA-propped Islamic terrorists. Najibullah and his brother Shahpur Ahmadzai were killed by Afghan Talibans on the 26th of September 1996 in the UN compound in Kabul city, castrated openly on 27 September 1996 by the Talibans who dragged their bloodied body behind a truck through the streets of Kabul and got them hung from a pole, where it remained for more than a day.

The bilateral summit of India and Russia at Goa on October 15 has opened up a dynamic chapter in India’s massive efforts for energy security as the Narendra Modi Government seeks to diversify its oil import baskets and look for new routes for supplies. The giant Russian oil major Rosneft’s takeover of the leading Indian major Essar Oil has completely changed the energy skyline of India redrawing the country’s oil routes and catapulting India to a position where it will have greater flexibility in bargaining for its oil supplies from different sources.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The crisis arising from the resignation on nepotism charges, of Industries Minister E P Jayarajan, has blown over thanks to the deft handling of the situation by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The Chief Minister took the wind out of the Opposition sails by promptly asking Jayarajan to resign. A firm directive from CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury that nothing short of resignation would do, also helped to tide over the crisis.