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If you are one of those who think that English language television channels headquartered in and around Delhi present a reliable picture of the subcontinent, it is time to take a serious reality check. Such and other Delhi-centric views would have you believe that the coming Lok Sabha election of the Indian Union is some sort of a boxing match between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi and that the sentiments of the people are neatly divided between the Indira Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Palakkad has many claims to fame. Among them is the fact of the district being a stronghold of the CPI(M). The town, which has remained a red citadel, is all set to play host to the party’s plenum from November 27 to 29, which is expected to have a crucial bearing on the State’s politics.

What was the tearing hurry on the part of the Prime Minister to recommend cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar for Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, barely within 24 hours of his formal retirement from the game? Firs of all, why Bharat Ratna for Sachin? Is Tendulkar’s achievement bigger than those of internationally acclaimed physicist Prof. Satyen Bose of Bose-Einstein theory fame and Dr Homi Bhabha, father of India’s atomic energy programme, who did not merit Bharat Ratna?

New Delhi: The Government has said that there is 'no question' of getting involved in the arbitration process initiated by the Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland in the chopper scam.

BHOPAL: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is finding the going tough in Vidisha - one of the two constituencies from where he is contesting the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh. While his position is quite comfortable in Budhni - the other seat from where he is in the fray - things are not at all smooth for him in Vidisha. Fully aware of the loss of prestige a defeat in the polls will entail for him, the chief minister has deployed an army of party workers, led by his wife, for campaigning in the constituency. His wife is camping in Vidisha - a district headquarter town about 60 km away from Bhopal - and going from door to door, seeking votes for her husband.

Elections to five state assemblies have reached a decisive stage with the battle lines having been finally drawn up. Though predicting the poll outcome is a gamble, one can, however, have a look at post-poll scenario. The elections are being held in Madhya Pradesh on November 25 and in Chhattisgarh polling has already been completed. Both the states are ruled by the BJP. The Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Delhi are also slated to go to poll on December 1 and on December 4 respectively. Poll is due in Mizoram on December 4.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh cautioned the nation that there may be terrorist attacks aimed disrupting the ongoing polls to the five state assemblies and the forthcoming general elections to Lok Sabha due in 2014.

LUCKNOW: The impressive mobilisation by Congress party to protest against non-implementation of the Food Security Act by Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh boosted the moral of rank and file as well as senior leaders.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Oommen Chandy-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government has, for all practical purposes, become a government of controversies, by controversies and for controversies.

If the prices of food articles in October this year increased by an overall 18.19 per cent as per the government data, things look much worse this month with food and vegetables prices reaching an all-time high and sudden spurt of over 100 per cent in salt prices in several markets across northern, eastern and north-eastern India following reports of shortage of this indispensible cooking ingredient sending shivers among housewives, restaurants, dabbawallas, cooked food suppliers and, of course, gourmets. The common man’s disposable income to buy non-food items is constantly shrinking affecting demand for manufactured products.