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T20 World Cup champions, India will clash with Bangladesh in a three-match T20I series which gets underway in Gwalior from Sunday, the 6th of October. India start firm favourites and are the number one team according to the ICC T20I Rankings. Bangladesh are way down in the pecking order at number 9. India will be led by Suryakumar Yadav – their new captain in the format and will be without the services of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja – the trio resigned from the format post India’s triumph in Barbados earlier this year.  The series will give an opportunity for India’s young crop of talented players to showcase their mettle on the world… Read More »SKY, Rinku And Abhishek Amongst 5 Key Players For India In T20Is vs Ban

The alliance of the Congress and the National Conference (NC) is predicted to win the most seats in Jammu and Kashmir, according to a poll of polls. Health warning: exit polls often get it wrong. An exit poll by Dainik Bhaskar forecasts the BJP would get 20-25 seats, the Congress and NC combine would win 35-40 seats, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 4-7 seats, and other parties 12-16 seats. Peoples Pulse’s exit poll predicted 23-27 seats for BJP, 46-50 for Congress-NC alliance, 7-11 for PDP, and 4-6 for other parties. There are 90 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, so the halfway mark is 46. Statehood has been a major issue in the Jammu and… Read More »Congress-National Conference Get Most J&K Seats, But Short Of Majority: Exit Polls

The Congress is poised to win and win big in Haryana, a state ruled by the BJP for the last decade, show four exit polls. The exit polls do not always get it right. They have been way off the mark in the past. The most recent example being the Lok Sabha polls where they went horribly off target. Dainik Bhaskar predicts 44-54 seats for the Congress in the 90-member state assembly, a huge jump from the 31 seats it won the last time. The same poll gives BJP anywhere between 15-29, which is a huge slide from the 40 seats it won in the 2019 polls.   Another poll, Dhruv Research, gives Congress 50-60… Read More »Big Win For Congress In Haryana, Show Early Exit Polls

The Congress is likely to form the next government in Haryana, ending the 10-year run of the BJP and its alliance with National Conference may stay ahead in the race for Jammu and Kashmir, which could delivered a fractured mandate.   An aggregate of four exit polls indicate that the Congress will win 55 of Haryana’s 90 seats.  In Jammu and Kashmir, which also has 90 seats after delimitation, the Congress-National Conference alliance is likely to win 43 seats — three less than the majority mark of 46.  Exit polls, though, can often get it wrong. 

A court in Himachal Pradesh today ordered the demolition of three floors of a disputed mosque in Shimla. The Shimla Municipal Commissioner Court has given two months to the Masjid committee and Waqf Board to complete the demolition process of the Sanjauli mosque. The conflict arose after several sections deemed the mosque illegal and subsequent protests by some Hindu organisations. The next hearing is on December 21. The lawyer representing the locals of Sanjauli raised the demand for the demolition of the mosque. “In 2011 the municipal commission (MC) gave the first notice to the Mosque Committee. How a five-storey building was built by 2018? No record was given to the MC despite them asking… Read More »Shimla Court Orders Demolition Of 3 Floors Of Disputed Mosque