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It is quite a loaded statement. Just after returning from Delhi, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, on his mission to apprise home minister Amit Shah about the violence in the state during the panchayat elections in which nearly 17 persons were killed in inter party clashes, said: "The darkest hour is just before the dawn. There will be light at the end of the tunnel. The only message I could get today is if winter comes, can spring be far behind. Good will happen in the days to come."

The Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar claims he is neither 'tired nor retired' at 82. Undeterred by the recent political crisis in his party, the Grand old man has begun to rebuild his shrinking party after the BJP engineered the division in the NCP. Pawar founded the party in 1999, rebelling against Congress. He is currently facing the very tough challenge of keeping his flock together. Senior Pawar is much older and has health problems.

As the Vidhan Sabha elections to the five states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Mizoram – are approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has upped the ante against both the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi, not against any other party or leader in opposition, betraying his heightened political threat perception from, though he had boasted for “Congress Mukta Bharat” and formerly brushed aside Rahul Gandhi as someone politically insignificant and merely a child (pappu).

At first, comparing Palestinian gunmen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to rioting youth in France may resemble likening apples to pears. In many ways, it is.

New Delhi: India's campaign in the team event of the Badminton Asia Junior Championships ended as they lost to Indonesia 1-3 in the quarter-finals in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Monday.

New Delhi: Indian hockey team captain and ace drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh, who finished top goal scorer in the recently concluded FIH Hockey Pro League, has credited this achievement to combined team work and effort.

New Delhi: Amid nerve wrecking drama, Lakshya Sen, trailing 16-20 in the second game, staged a dramatic recovery as he saved four game points to overpower the reigning All England champion China's Li Shi Feng, 21-18, 22-20 to win the Canada Badminton Open, his first title of the year, in Calgary.

Stock exchange is expected to serve as an economic barometer that is indicative of a country's state of the economy. Key market indices should provide the pulse of the economy. However, the theory is of little practical value in India. Indian stock markets have become punters’ paradise, a big gambling den for foreign portfolio investors (FPI) who are in control of the trade. The stock markets are rising and falling too frequently for vague reasons to help big time operators book large profits. Take for instance the fall and rise of India’s stock market during the current year.

In a rally organized in Pratapgarh on July 4, 2023 in the poll-bound state Rajasthan, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India Nitin Gadkari, has said that an innovative proposal has been made to reduce the price of petrol to Rs 15 per litre. On that day petrol was being sold in Rajasthan at Rs113.48 per litre, and hence attracted the attention of the people who understood Gadkari’s statement implying that if the Modi government returns to power after the 2024 general election petrol will be sold at Rs15 per litre.

The nature and character of the West Bengal panchayat poll violence, which claimed 17 lives, two less than the 2018 poll violence, underscores an ominous development for the ruling Trinamool Congress, was at the receiving end of the brutality. This also underlines a significant shift in the pattern of the violence, on who is inflicting it and on whom. Out of the 17 persons who died in violence, nine were from TMC. Usually, the ruling party does not suffer huge casualty. But in this election, TMC’s loss could be described as substantial.