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A long term political dividend was in her sights when Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that Prime .Minister, Narendra Modi did not goad the central investigation agencies like CBI and ED to swoop in on the homes of her party leaders. While her political opponents ridicule her and her party leaders try hard to conceal their bewilderment, Banerjee who has made a habit of turning challenges into opportunities may have the last laugh after announcement of results of 2024 parliamentary elections.

The Thursday morning nationwide crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) begs the question “Why now, why today, why this morning?” It can’t be that the PFI was found engaging in “terror-funding”, and “terror activities”, just the night before? Terrorists and their handlers take time to set up terror factories, so what was the rub here, why now?

Telangana Armed struggle was a Communist led rebellion of peasants against princely state of Hyderabad in the region of Telangana. Basically the struggle was to liberate the peasants from unjustified exploitation and merge Hyderabad in the Indian Union when it attains freedom. The book of Com Rajbahadur Gaur, published by the Communist Party of India (CPI) in September 1947, soon after India got independence, had been titled correctly as it said Tricolour Shall Fly Over Hyderabad. Dr Rajbahadur Gaur was a renowned communist leader of the peasant rebellion that had started in 1944-46 and was involved in insurrection in 1946-51.

Surat: Favourites Gujarat blanked Delhi 3-0 while defending champion Bengal overpowered Maharashtra 3-1 to win the Men and women's Table Tennis team titles respectively at the 36th National Games here on Wednesday.

Surat: Veteran Achanta Sharath, winner of three gold and a silver in the Commonwealth Games, proved that age is just a number.

Surat: Favourites Gujarat chalked out an easy 3-0 victory over Bengal while Delhi upset second-seeded Maharashtra 3-2 in the 36th National Games men’s table tennis semi-finals at the PDDU indoor stadium here on Wednesday.

Gurugram: Gaurika Bishnoi fired three birdies on the trot in the last three holes, to return 3-under 69 and take a huge six-shot lead at the end of the second round of the 13th Leg of the Hero WPGT at the DLF Golf & Country Club, here on Wednesday.

One of the earliest stories of confidence trickery by serial conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar is from early days in Bengaluru where he grew up. Then a 17-year-old, he is known to have carried around with him a forged letter of Bengaluru police commissioner declaring that the teenager was eligible to drive cars and bikes anywhere in Karnataka.

The new face of Adivasi identity, Hemant Soren, son of the legendry tribal Guruji, Shibu Soren , has blown the war trumpet against the BJP’s design to impair the sensibility of Adivasi individuality and turn Jharkhand into the colony of the capitalists advocating the Hindutva political line by attacking at the social and political base of the saffron brigade in Jharkhand.

Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when top justices of the topmost court are there to exclaim in wonder and tell an acclaimed lawyer defending the hijab, “Sir, it was a pleasure listening to you!”