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BHOPAL: Late night political scene in Madhya Pradesh has undone some surprise change for both BJP and Congress For BJP it was never expected that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will directly appeal to M.P. voters “to support me by reposing confidence yet again in BJP to form a double engine government”.

LUCKNOW: Failure of seat sharing in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections has led to sharp bitterness in INDIA partners Samajwadi Party and Congress. As of now both the parties are adamant to confront each other in assembly polls on November 17 accusing the other party playing in the hands of BJP.

A newcomer with a handsome face needs no recommendation for entry into filmdom. Feted by Hollywood and nearer home at Bollywood to be one of the finest actors to perform before the camera, Om Puri who stood out in a crowd with a pockmarked face was an exception. He was at the height of his histrionic talents when he passed away. He was only 66 and certainly not an age for him to die. . He was born on October 18, 1950.

Bolivia’s governing party and a shining light of the Latin American left, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is mired in a deep internal crisis.

With the country inching closer to polls in five states followed by the parliamentary elections, the situation remains quite dire and critical. The sinister design of the powers to be to transform the country socially and politically in the mode of theocratic order of the Hindu Rashtra is already underway. Religious majoritarianism, curtailing press freedom, decimating the public sector to give leeway to private corporate interests, increased violence against historically marginalized communities, and heightened misogyny are just some of the phenomena in the long list of symptoms of a crumbling democracy. The prevailing reality looming large before all of us is the strangling of the ethos of justice, equality, and democracy, the cornerstone in the imagination of the new nation-state, India.

Congress is resurgent in Madhya Pradesh, but it is the only state among the five going to poll in November, is ruled by the BJP, where it has better political prospects than in any other state. Logically, the opposition INDIA alliance should have gone for putting joint candidates against the BJP’s to avoid division in anti-BJP votes, but unfortunately they are contesting separately, and all efforts of reaching at some seat sharing arrangement have failed.

Gurugram: Norway's Madelene Staynar fired error free six under 66 to emerge sole leader but it was Diksha Daggar (67) and Vani Kapoor (68), who hogged the spotlight as they were second and third respectively after the first round of the Hero Women’s Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country Club.

New Delhi: JSW and GMR co-owned franchise Delhi Capitals on Thursday announced that it has retained 15 players, including 5 overseas players and released three ahead of the Women's Premier League auction which is set to be held later this year.

New Delhi: Former World champion, PV Sindhu came from behind to beat the seventh-seed Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung to advance to the quarter-finals of the Denmark Open Badminton at the Jyske Bank Arena in Odense on Thursday.

Rightist forces do not empathise with the human and humanity. Humanitarian emotions and sensibilities have been unknown commodities for them. Hitler crushed the humanity and the worst victims of his tyrannies were the Jew. It is ironical that now the same Jews are perpetrating the worst kind of torture on the Muslims of Gaza and Palestine.