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Barely thirteen months before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which together contribute 120 seats out of the total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the political campaigning and organizational activities are most manifest in the BJP camp while the Bihar Mahagathbandhan parties as also Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh are still not equally active.

What is ‘understanding’ an utterance and what is ‘misunderstanding’? The answer is obvious – if someone understands exactly the same as to what was uttered is ‘understanding’ and if someone derives any other meaning is ‘misunderstanding’. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for two years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 15,000 is clearly a case of ‘misunderstanding’ his utterance which was in fact targeted against Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a public servant who love to be called himself Pradhan Sevak of the Country, but not understood as such by one complainant BJP MLA and former minister of Gujarat Purnesh Modi and Chief Judicial Magistrate of Surat H H Varma.

New Delhi: IPL franchise Delhi Capitals and DP World, a leading provider of smart end-to-end logistics, on Friday today announced a long-term partnership.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Friday hailed the Odisha Government on winning the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Award for Best Hockey Infrastructure during the AHF Congress held in Mungyeong, Korea on Friday.

“The proletariat will win. Capitalism will be defeated. Death to Imperialism!” Read Shaheed Bhagat Singh, wearing a red scarf, from a telegram message that was to be sent to the Third International on the occasion of Lenin’s death anniversary in 1930.This gesture made by Bhagat Singh not only underlined the international unity of the communist movement but also highlighted the core of his ideology, around which he wanted to build a free India and a prosperous world.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no longer a Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took the decision to disqualify the Gandhi Family scion following his conviction in a case of criminal defamation, with two-year jail sentence. Less than two years of jail and he wouldn't have ended up in this mess. But, irony of irony, it was Rahul Gandhi who tore up an ordinance to amend the law drafted by the Manmohan Singh government. The disqualification came the day after a Surat court convicted Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi was given the option to "apologise", but he refused. The Congress had called the verdict "infirm, erroneous and unsustainable".

The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil in the country. The immediate provocation for this hurriedly drafted petition was the conviction of the Congress MP Rahul Gandhi by the Surat Court over a four year old defamation case, but it was the culmination of great discontent felt by all the non-BJP parties in the last four years of the Modi rule since the second consecutive BJP win in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Later in the day, the announcement by the Lok Sabha secretariat about disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member, has given a new dimension to the petition.

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games Gold medalist Nitu Ghanghas and defending champion Nikhat Zareen chalked out record contrasting victories to reach the finals of the Rs 20-croreMahindra IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here on Thursday.

Bhopal: China won both the gold medals while India picked up a silver and bronze each on day two of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol at the M.P. Shooting Academy Range here on Thursday.

Gurugram: Vani Kapoor carded a crucial birdie on the very last hole to card 3-under 69 and with a three -day total of 2-under 214 won the 7th leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, title here on Thursday.