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Whenever petrol and diesel prices go up, the government claims it is open market forces at work. But like all pre-election times, fuel prices have suddenly stopped rising and there has been no increase for the past two weeks or so. While it is true that international crude prices have taken a breather in recent days, the reason for a stall in the century run of fuel prices in India is anything but that. It is a deal between the government and the oil companies.

Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has announced that not all public sector banks will be privatised, but only a select few. If privatisation is good, then all must be privatised; if it is not so, then none should be.

Kalyani: Relegation was confirmed for NEROCA as they slumped to yet another defeat, losing by a solitary goal to nil against Sudeva Delhi at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Country's number one in both WTA Singles and Doubles rankings Ankita Raina and six-time Grand Slam winner Sania Mirza will lead India's charge in the Billie Jean King Cup World Group play-off tie against Latvia in April.

Jaipur: Seher Atwal, who grabbed a maiden breakthrough win in the fourth leg, is back for the sixth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at Rambagh Golf Course, Jaipur and she will battle it out with Jahanvi Bakshi, who found her maiden win in the fifth leg last week.

Greater Noida: Riders from India, Pakistan, and Nepal shared honours on the opening day of the World Cup Qualifiers for Equestrian Tent Pegging kick here on Tuesday.

Gurugram: Chandigarh based Ajeetesh Sandhu, Harendra Gupta along with Delhi’s Honey Baisoya were tied for the lead as they all carded identical at six-under-66 in round one of the Prometheus School Presents Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship at the Golden Greens Golf Club here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Ace shuttlers PV Sindhu Sania Nehwal Kidambi Srikankth, and B Sai Praneeth will spearhead India's challenge at the YONEX All England Open to be played at the Arena Birmingham from March 17 to 21.

In a huge nation with a wide variety of classes and temperaments of people, long term political predictions are hazardous. Most politicians believe only the personality of a leader earns popular support. Most observers assume that Indian voters can be enticed with variety of lures, bamboozled with threats of violence and influenced by caste considerations though outcomes in the past have disproven such beliefs. Indian voters are easily influenced only by their conscious and not by external pressures.

Tamil Nadu election for its 234-member Assembly on April 6 would witness a medley of battle-lines, involving not only the two major Dravidian rivals but two other fronts throwing up challenges to the voting strengths of traditional rivals — the ruling AIADMK and DMK.