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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.

Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel has not just divided Muslim political leaders. It’s also solicited diverse responses from religious figures and institutions, reflecting deeper divisions about what Islam stands for in the 21st century.

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.

Mumbai: Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar feels that ''it is easier to wear a helmet and face fast bowling than playing kabaddi.”

Don’t call it a ceasefire. That’s the word from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office even as the Israeli government announced it will pause its destruction and ethnic cleansing in Gaza for at least four days, with the possibility of further extensions as conditions develop.

After being sworn in as the new president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, has formally asked India to withdraw its military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago. This request was made during a meeting between Muizzu and India’s Minister for Earth Sciences, Kiren Rijiju, who was present at Muizzu’s swearing-in ceremony on November 17. The Muizzu administration is currently also reviewing approximately 100 agreements, including defence and security pacts, signed with India during the tenure of the previous president, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

On Friday, OpenAI, the Microsoft-funded operator of ChatGPT, fired its CEO, Sam Altman. Then, after five days of popcorn-emoji chaos, they hired him back. The sudden move, which billion-dollar investor Microsoft only learned about moments before it was released to the public, seems to have come from a fight between Altman and engineer Ilya Sutskever, who is in charge of “alignment” at the company. Sutskever’s faction, including board member Helen Toner, whose feud with Altman may have precipitated these events, is out. Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and Harvard president who doubted that women are good at science, is in. Altman’s return means that, in a fight about profit versus safety, profit won.

With a knack of hitting the headlines, be it by scoring a century or taking off his shirt and standing bare-chested at Lords cricket ground or becoming BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly is in the news again. This time as the brand ambassador of West Bengal, the state arguably India's left handed batsman lives in.

Who is ‘Panauti’ for which political party will be known on December 3 when votes are counted and the results of the assembly elections are out. And if the 2024 general election favours the INDI-Alliance, the Election Commission, which has issued a show cause notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his anti-Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarks, will forget ‘Panauti’ and ‘pickpocket’, both.