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JHANSI: Tension prevailed in Srinagar police station area of Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district when two communities clashed over playing of colours during Durga idol immersion procession on Tuesday. However, police deployed near the spot immediately acted by detaining three from the spot.Superintendent of Police, Mahoba, Aparna Gupta, said that dispute broke out between two communities while taking the...

BHOPAL: Congress released its first list of 144 candidates for the MP polls Sunday with a nod to numerology - at 9.09 am on the first day of Navratri, fielding 69 of its 96 sitting MLAs in a mix skewed towards youth. PCC chief Kamal Nath was among the nominees, 65 of them below 50. Rahul Gandhi calls ‘unemployment’ single biggest issue in IndiaBesides 19 women, there are six Muslim, 39 OBC, 30 ST...

Much attention will be lavished on caste and community voting intentions in these state polls, very little on boring stuff like agriculture. Yet in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana, farmers are key election influencers.The farm factor, at the base level, comes from the share of population that works in agriculture - 72.4% in MP, 70% in Chhattisgarh, 62% in Rajasthan and 60% in Telangana....

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday set the ball rolling for assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - the last electoral battle in the run-up to 2024 general election - by announcing a 24-day poll window extending from November 7 to November 30.Chhattisgarh will be the only state to have polling in two phases, with the assembly constituencies in the...

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday released its second list of 39 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election, which includes Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Singh Patel and Faggan Singh Kulaste, as well as four Lok Sabha MPs.By fielding such heavyweights, the party has raised the stakes for the assembly polls and underscored its determined bid to retain power in the state amid...

GUWAHATI: China’s latest claim to Arunachal Pradesh by releasing a list of “standardised geographical names” for 11 places in the frontier state turns out to be a random naming of isolated forest tracts, nondescript peaks, non-existent rivers and town areas superficially bound together as part of Cona, Zayu and Medog counties in Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet. For instance, the coordinates of two...

In a move seen as a reiteration of its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, China has standardised the names of 11 places in the state, which it calls "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet". The development comes just a week after India held a G20 meeting in Arunachal that China chose to skip.The names were released on Sunday by China's ministry of civil affairs in Chinese, Tibetan and Pinyin. This is in...