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LUCKNOW: This month’s civic polls in Uttar Pradesh are very crucial for BSP national President Mayawati and her party as the results would show whether the combination of dalits and Muslims is still effective in winning seats for the BSP. Ever since the party was formed in 1984 by late Kanshiram, for the first time BSP national President Mayawati is playing aggressive Muslim card in civic polls to test water for crucial Lok Sabha polls next year.

New Delhi: Having lost six of their eight matches played so far, the bottom placed Delhi Capitals are virtually out contention in this seasons IPL but all-rounder Mitchell Marsh says that though, "we let ourselves down but still proud of the group and a lot of belief in the group."

New Delhi: Promising Odisha athlete Bapi Hansda won a silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the ongoing 5th Youth Asian Athletics Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He clocked 51.38 seconds, his personal best to finish ahead of Sri Lanka’s Kuda Liyanage Ayomal who timed 51.40 to bag bronze while Qatar’s Mahamat Abakar Abdrahman won the gold with a time of 50.91 secs.

Dubai: The duo of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy did country proud as they won the first-ever gold medal for India at the Badminton Asia Championships in the doubles category beating Malaysia's Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi in the final here on Sunday.

By end 2023, rail journey time for passengers between Kolkata and the three Barak valley districts of Assam via Dhaka, Bangladesh may be reduced to 15/16 hours only, if things run according to plan. A Kolkata-Agartala journey would take only around 10 hours, according to Railway authorities.

A schism that could tear the Anglican church apart is about more than LGBTQ rights. It's about fundamental cultural and religious differences with potentially profound consequences for the geopolitical battle to shape a 21st-century world order.

The strategy of the vice chancellor of Vishwa Bharati University, Bidyut Chakraborty, has crossed the line of decency. Chakraborty who has, for more than six months, been tirelessly working to evict Amartya Sen from the premises of Shantiniketan on April 20 shoot off yet another notice to Sen asking him to “vacate or face eviction”, in case he fails to vacate the 13 decimal plot of land by May 6. Nonetheless Sen on his part is determined to challenge the VU action in court. Chakraborty hardening his stance has made the intellectuals and academics to believe that VC should not have done this without endorsement of Narendra Modi who is the Chancellor of VU.

The Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu has renewed its vows with the principal opposition party in the state, the AIADMK, with certain concessions from both sides. One, the BJP’s K Annamalai will put his ego on hold and for that, the AIADMK will consider Annamalai an equal partner and not a maverick like he was taken till yesterday.

Many migrant workers face wage-related abuses, including non-payment, delayed payment of wages, and in many cases forced to work beyond the legal working time having most direct and tangible effect on their everyday lives. These sometimes lead to even debt bondage and forced labour.

India’s integration into the global value chains and favourable container pricing trends are making the country an ideal choice as an attractive ‘China plus one’ alternative.