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As the Telangana elections approach their final week, the youngest state in India is ready for a Triangular electoral contest. The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (B.R.S.), Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) compete for victory.

Usually every actor aspires to be a hero. But even when told by a maestro like Satyajit Ray on his face that a hero never looks like him the plain speak could not dampen Rabi Ghosh's spirit; he was comfortable with facts.

Irrespective of the outcome of the batch of petitions in the Supreme Court against the SEBI investigations into the charges levelled by US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research against the Adani group of companies regarding violations of stock market regulation, it is most likely that short selling would emerge as the villain of the piece.

A fish curry is a meal while macherjhol is a emotion that will find widespread support in West Bengal. Its residents who swear by the taste of hilsa would in all likelihood be foxed by Gujarat's choice of Ghol as the state fish.

As Telangana goes to polls, on November 30, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi took inspiration from Team India’s performance at the just concluded the ODI World Cup. Hoping to emulate the cricket team, the party launched a campaign asserting that, just as India will lift its third trophy, the party will also win Telangana for the third time. Leading from the front is captain K. Chandrashekhar Rao; the others include a mix of family members, seasoned politician and former bureaucrats. though the Indian team failed to win the World Cup on November 19 final, the BRS is following the same leadership with confidence that India might have file in ODI final this year to win, but BRS will be third time lucky on December 3 when the results will be out.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Nothing seems to be going right for the Congress in Kerala. As if the plethora of problems already plaguing the party were not enough, the Congress is caught in a major controversy over the election of the Youth Congress state president.

Holding conferences of investors with attempts made to induct representation of as many foreign countries as possible have become an annual or biennial ritual with states in this country. Closing ceremonies will be marked by state chief ministers proudly announcing promised investments, in most cases of astronomical sums, not necessarily justified by ground reality. Huge public money will be spent on hosting such ceremonies to what results the state administrations will not tell the people at any stage. The obliging print and electronic media, for reasons well known will go to town to report in minutest detail of investment promises made. Sometimes these are beyond the capacity of announcing groups or unrelated to what they are presently engaged in. But the media will not take the trouble of checking at any stage how much of investment promised is in the process of becoming a reality.

Results of 199 Rajasthan Assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday will decide which party rules the state for the next five years. Since 1998 no party has been repeated twice in succession in Rajasthan. By that token, the Congress would be taking a break from December 3. But Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is behaving like he’s not going anywhere even if it’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has been campaigning against Gehlot for the last several weeks.

New Delhi: World Championships silver medalist Amit Panghal (51kg) and Six-time Asian Championships medalist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will be among the top pugilists fighting it out at the 7th Elite National Boxing Championships scheduled to be held in Shillong, Meghalaya from November 25 to December 1.

Chennai: Seher Atwal holed two birdies in the last three holes to win the 16th and final leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Tamil Nadu Golf Federation's Cosmo Golf Club here on Friday.