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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a massive manifestation of Kerala’s collective anger against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s activities in violation of the Constitution. The protest march to the Raj Bhavan on November 15 against the gubernatorial grouches saw the attendance of close to one lakh people.

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP has launched a massive campaign to win over tribals who constitute a significant portion of state's population. Its defeat to the Congress in 2018 assembly polls was largely due to the fact that it won less than one third tribal seats compared to the Congress.

Kashmir’s politics is likely to witness a major change, Separatist leader Bilal Gani Lone is preparing to bid farewell to separatism and enter the mainstream politics.. Bilal is elder son of Abdul Gani Lone, the Hurriyat Conference leader who founded the People Conference. Considered a moderate who had wide support across north Kashmir, Abdul Lone was thrice elected from Handwara in Kupwara district before militancy erupted in Kashmir. He was assassinated on May 21, 2002, during a rally at the Srinagar Eidgah.

The Federal Parliament and provincial assemblies’ elections in Nepal are scheduled to take place on November 20. But the election fever isn’t felt in most of the 165 first-past-the-post constituencies or directly electable seats out of 275 lower house seats of FP. The same is true for 330 FTPT seats to be directly elected to provincial legislatures out of 550 provincial law-makers. The rest (110 in the FP and 220 in PL to be elected under proportional representation) are to be filled in after the election of FTPT seats. The National assembly – the upper house - has 59 members; 56 are indirectly elected to six-year terms by an electoral college comprising provincial and local leaders, while three nominated by the President of Nepal on the government’s recommendation.

New Delhi: Teenage pugilist Vishwanath Suresh ousted Ireland’s Patsy Joyce Thady by a split 3-2 decision to commence India’s campaign on a winning note at the IBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships in La Nucia, Spain on Tuesday.

Chandigarh: Ridhima Dilawari, Gaurika Bishnoi, Hitaashee Bakshi start as strong contenders in the tough field at the 15th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Chandigarh Golf Club which starts here from Wednesday.

Last weekend Chengpang Zhao, the 45-year-old co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest trading platform, Binance, announced on Twitter that his exchange would liquidate its entire FTT holdings.

Offence is the best strategy for Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren to foil the mischievous designs of the Narendra Modi government, the BJP and the powerful caucus of the Dikus, the non tribals, who have been desperate to grab the land of the adivasis on the plea of industrial development and their empowerment. Hemant has come to realise that prostrating before Narendra Modi would diminish not only his social stature but more significantly of his father, the Guru of Adivasis of Jharkhand, Shibu Soren.

President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping met on Monday in the Indonesian island of Bali, the first substantive meeting between them since Joe Biden became President, and Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term. The other side of the road, other leaders of Group of 20 paused till Xi-and-Biden worked out the kinks in the US-China relationship. A potential thaw in relationship was the goal from the deep freeze where it stood. The general feeling after the three-hour long meeting was “progress had been made”.

The draft text on CoP27 agreement released on Monday, November 14, clearly shows the division. Countries are still fighting on the most contentious issue of agreement on “funding arrangements for loss and damage”. The UN climate conference is still swinging between hope and despair. At one point of time, the head of cabinet for EU executive vice-president Frans Timmermans, even warned delegates that “progress at this CoP won’t be great.”