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Gandhinagar: Tokyo bronze medalist boxer Lovlina Borgohain and Commonwealth Games medalists Mohammed Hussamuddin and Jaismine Lamboria recorded facile victories to storm into the finals of their respective weight divisions at the 36th National Games here on Tuesday.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan’s threat to move the court over the recent audio leaks questioning how and who did leak them suggests that that the PTI chief seems to be on the lookout for an escape from the accusation through a juridical route. The statement he made on Monday is a sequel to a steady stream of audio recording that were allegedly candid conversations never meant to be heard by the public, of government figures in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Panchayat elections scheduled to be held in West Bengal early next year will be in stark contrast to the rural polls held five years ago. But the CPI-M has little reason to be upbeat about its chances of surging past the BJP which many voters opposed to Trinamool Congress feel is a better choice than CPI-M to support.

LUCKNOW: Unless Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav understands meaning of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s role in the evolution of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, it would be a very difficult task to run the party in his absence. Akhilesh Yadav will have to see how his father commanded influence in all sections of society and made friends in ruling party as well as in opposition. Mulayam Singh Yadav who died on October 10 at the age of 82, has left behind a great legacy of millions of supporters who believed in him.

After their design to confine Nitish Kumar to Bihar going haywire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah have chalked out a fresh strategy to unleash a blistering attack on him and portray him as an opportunist politician who even did not care for his political mentor Jay Prakash Narayan. Modi and Shah are conscious of the fact that the BJP can do better in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections if they succeed in portraying the Bihar chief minister as a failed administrator. In their perception Bihar in the changed political scenario would play the pivotal role in ensuring the defeat of the BJP.in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

The two-day National Convention of RJD held on October 9-10 in Delhi has made it clear that there will be a united opposition led by the congress to dethrone the BJP in Lok Sabha Election 2024. RJP leader Lalu Yadav’s saying this in categorical terms is significant for several reasons which included gaining strength of the opposition unity in the country and also putting more political concerns on the BJP’s political platter.

At last a political party other than the Bharatiya Janata Party has caught on that cornering increasingly rabid Hindu votes is half the electoral battle won in Modi's India. For decades, the "secular" and "communal" Hindus were separated by the Muslim vote-bank with the secular Hindus slowly but continuously losing ground because of the consolidation of "Hindu votes" even as the proliferation of secular parties left the "Muslim votes" divided and infructuous. This allowed the BJP to start the process of monopolizing the Hindu vote-bank, which kept gravitating towards achieving a distinct state of consolidated Hindu majority.

Chennai: Delhi’s 24-year old Harkrishan Wadia was the quickest among the home qualifiers as seven Indian drivers made it to the Stage-2 of the FIA Rally Star Asia-Pacific Finals following preliminary runs at the Madras International Circuit here on Monday.

Ahmedabad: The quartert of Ajatasatru Sharma, S Albert Raj, Bhumjit Singh and Gyanjit Arambam paddled in unison to K4 Sprint gold in the Canoeing and Kayaking competition on the river Sabarmati enabling Services to further consolidate their position at top of the medal table in the 36th National Games Academy here on Monday.

Gurugram: Austria’s Christine Wolf is keen to defend her Hero Women’s Indian Open title, which she won at the DLF Golf and Country Club here in 2019 However, the event could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.