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There could be a musical chair this year with nine states going for elections. It will be a trailer and the semi-final before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The results will show whether the BJP continues to sway the voters or the Congress-led Opposition will defeat the BJP in the upcoming elections. Regional satraps would naturally want to protect their turf.

As south Delhi’s Mehrauli Archaeological Park gets a makeover ahead of the G-20 Summit in Delhi in September, a massive anti-encroachment drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) took place in the Ladha Sarai village of Mehrauli on February 10. The demolition drive was carried out pursuant to hundreds of eviction orders slapped by the DDA last December, which ordered that encroachers remove themselves within ten days.

Kolkata: Amandeep Drall got off to a flying start as she opened her campaign with a 2-under 70, that put her one shot ahead of Shweta in the third leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Defending champion Stephen Gallacher (Scotland) has his task cut out as he will battle it out to retain his Hero Indian Open title with array of winners in the field this time which includes Yannik Paul, Guido Migliozzi, MacIntyre, Kalle Samooja, Thorbjørn Olesen, Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal (2), Nicolai Højgaard and Shaun Norris, all of whom have all held aloft a trophy at least once on the DP World Tour in 2022.

Suffering in Syria and Turkey caused by a strong earthquake on Feb. 6 has elicited an immense worldwide humanitarian response. The toll as of press time for this article was 36,000 people dead, with the number of recorded deaths steadily rising as rubble from collapsed buildings is removed. Unusually cold weather and snow add to the grief and difficulties in delivering aid material to survivors.

In Tripura, with only 48 hours before the scheduled Assembly polls on February 16, the state Congress unit has been left to fend for itself by the party high command in carrying out its pre poll campaign. Despite earlier assurances by local Congress leaders, neither Mr Rahul Gandhi nor his sister Priyanka or other senior leaders, bothered to visit the state, ignoring frantic requests from the state leaders.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world back on track for 2030 SDG goals, reiterating the call on the G20 to agree on a $500 billion annual stimulus to achieve it.

It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine's Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at multiple locations.

New Delhi: In a bid to provide aspiring stars and teams an opportunity to perform at a world-class venue, Hockey India on Monday announced that it will host four Junior National Championships in the newly-build Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, Odisha.

Kolkata: Amandeep Drall, who finished tied third in the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, starts as one of the favourites for the third leg at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club commencing here from Tuesday and will battle it out with Seher Atwal, who won the first leg of the Tour this year.