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In an ironic reversal of their assigned roles, regional Congress leaders are currently handling a scathing political attack on their party by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with greater confidence than their supposedly exalted High command Delhi-based leadership, post recent Assembly elections.

In 1997, Lalduhoma quit the Mizo National Front after he lost to Zoramthanga in the race for party President. On Monday, the 74-year-old Lalduhoma was set to replace Zoramthanga as chief minister of Mizoram.

Kolkata: Top gofers of the country will be seen in action in the second edition of the Rs One crore prize money SSP Chawrasia Invitational presented by TAKE Sports at the c Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC), from December 7 – 10.

Kuala Lumpur: Riding on forward Araijeet Singh Hundal's hat-trick, two-time champion India overpowered spirited Korea 4-2 to open their campaign in Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Malaysia on a victorious note at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

New Delhi: India had a golden ending as Payal, Nisha and Akansha put up dominating performances to emerge champions as the country concluded its campaign with 17 medals at the IBA Junior World Boxing Championships in Yerevan, Armenia.

Kolkata: 10K world record-holder Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw in the women’s category and two-time world championship silver medallist Kenyan Daniel Simiyu Ebenyo in the men’s category will make headline debuts in One of India’s biggest running festivals and the World Athletics Elite Label Road Race, the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K, on 17th December.

The outcome of the five Assembly elections held in November has proved almost all opinion polls and ground reports wrong. Even the few exit polls that predicted a thumping BJP victory in Madhya Pradesh gave the Congress a comfortable majority in neighbouring Chhattisgarh. The clean BJP sweep of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh has therefore come as a major surprise after the BJP's recent losses in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka and given the signs of a popular yearning for change in Madhya Pradesh after eighteen years of BJP rule and no such visible anti-incumbency against the Congress governments of Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

Election result for Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly reveals that the electorates in Chhattisgarh have driven the Congress and the BJP towards a tougher contest for Lok Sabha election 2024 by reducing the difference in their shares in total votes polled to merely 4.04 per cent from 9.94 per cent in the Lok Sabha election 2019. The decline of vote share of BJP from 2019 was 5.17 per cent, out of which 0.73 per cent went to the Congress and 4.44 per cent went to the other parties.

Zoram People's Movement (ZPM)'s sweeping victory in Mizoram bins the proverbial belief that Indian politics has little space for the young gun. Of course, there are exceptions when mint-fresh political parties are known to end the regime of an established political outfit.

The first thing Prime Minister Narendra Modi did after cornering three states in the ‘Hindi heartland’ was to address Indian Navy personnel on Navy Day and proclaim that ranks in the Indian Navy will be renamed so that the ranks reflected Indian culture. The uniforms of sailors and officers of the Indian Navy will also display the legacy of Shivaji Maharaj. Question is, why is the Prime Minister of India bent on changing “everything-India” to suit his and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s idea of India?