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New Delhi: Hockey India on Wednesday lashed out at former women’s team chief coach Sjoerd Marijne, for making “the malicious attempt to paint a dark picture of Indian sports administration.”

Aroosa Alam, the Pakistani journalist and advocate of India-Pakistan peace, whose “pure, beautiful friendship” with Amarinder Singh is now at the centre of a public slugfest between the former Punjab CM and his estranged colleagues in the Congress.

The part-virtual and part-person meeting of the foreign ministers of four countries – the United States, Israel, India and United Arab Emirates – on October 18 saw the emergence of a new grouping in West Asia. It is significant that the meeting took place when the Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar, was visiting Israel to hold talks with the Naftali Bennett government.

The behaviour of fuel prices in India is falling into a regular pattern. Three distinct patterns emerge, relative to elections in the country in the price movement of petroleum products. These phases fall into pre-election, election and post-election scenarios. The pattern has been repeating itself ad nauseam even as the government claims that the prices are a function of the market forces and neither government nor the producing and marketing companies have any role in them.

The results of the by polls of thirty assembly constituencies and three Lok Sabha seats announced on November 2 make it clear that the BJP's days of supremacy in Indian politics have been reversed. The Congress has staged a significant come back while the regional parties, have more or less maintained their respective turf, excepting TRS in Telangana which lost a seat to the BJP. Trinamool Congress in West Bengal improved its share to a record level of more than 80 per cent in two out of four seats.

New Delhi: Akash Kumar is the lone Indian challenger left in contention at AIBA World Boxing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

A perfect macro storm for the Pakistani rupee has seen it tank from PKR 152 in May to PKR 170 now. The primary catalyst for the rupee's plunge was the escalation in the trade deficit and the PTI government's indiscriminate borrowing from the banking system to generate economic growth policies, whose endgame was a spike in the M2 money supply and a draconian inflation spiral.

In Assam, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally the United Peoples’ Party Liberal (UPPL) won all five seats where assembly by-elections were held on October 30.Its performance in the biggest state in India’s Northeast somewhat offset its miserable showing in West Bengal, where saffron party candidates forfeited their security deposits in three out of the four seats they contested, losing all.

BHOPAL: Nobody expected such a massive BJP win in the by-polls held in Madhya Pradesh on October 30. Most of the observers thought that because of the exorbitant price rise of diesel, petrol, LPG cylinders and scarcity of fertilizers at the time of sowing and terrible unemployment, the voters will teach a lesson to the BJP. But they very badly letdown the observers and elected BJP candidates from two out of three Vidhan Sabha and the solitary Lok Sabha seat. The credit for these victories goes to Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan, who addressed 40 public meetings and personally met thousands of voters, spent nights in the homes of unknown voters and proved that he is a master election strategist.

“First step outside Maharashtra, giant leap towards Delhi via Dadra Nagar Haveli!”, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, Neil Armstrong-like, tweeted, soon after the Sena’s newly minted candidate, Kalaben Delkar, won the Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH) bypoll. Kalaben defeated the BJP’s Mahesh Gavit and Congress candidate Mahesh Dhodi. Both the Maheshs couldn’t have imagined in their worst nightmares that a complete rookie would worst them without even a ‘May I?’