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With exit polls predicting a Congress win in Haryana, the focus has moved to who would be the next Chief Minister. Health warning: exit polls often get it wrong. Former Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said if it comes to deciding the next Chief Minister, that’s a call the “high command” would take. There are 90 seats in the Haryana assembly, so the halfway mark is 46. Most exit polls predicted the Congress would likely win between 44 and 61 seats. Asked about senior leaders Kumari Selja and Randeep Surjewala also airing their chief ministerial ambitions, Hooda said,  “We are expecting to win many more seats. Under the BJP, law and order… Read More »Kumari Selja As Haryana Chief Minister? Congress’s Bhupinder Hooda Says…

Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which was hoping to find a toehold in Haryana — the next logical choice after ruling Delhi and Punjab — could fail to open its account in the state, exit polls have indicated. Exit polls, though, can often get it wrong.  AAP had contested on 89 of Haryana’s 90 seats. But its campaigning was hamstrung due to the absence of its key leaders including Arvind Kejriwal for the most part. Mr Kejriwal and his close aide Manish Sisodia, arrested in connection with the Delhi liquor case, got bail just ahead of the election.  AAP, though, had not been able to open account in Haryana in 2029 as well. But the… Read More »AAP Could Fail To Open Account In Haryana, Exit Polls Indicate

The potential successor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday, a Lebanese security source told Reuters on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike that is reported to have targeted him. In its campaign against the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Israel carried out a large strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Thursday that Axios cited three Israeli officials as saying targeted Hashem Safieddine in an underground bunker. The Lebanese security source and two other Lebanese security sources said that ongoing Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburb – known as Dahiyeh – since Friday have kept rescue workers from scouring the site of the attack. Hezbollah has made no comment so far… Read More »Nasrallah’s Potential Successor Out Of Contact After Israeli Strikes: Report

<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> A day after India announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Islamabad to attend a key meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) mid-October, he said he was going to Pakistan for a “multilateral event” and not to discuss Indo-Pak relations.</p> <p>He said this in response to a query during an interaction after he delivered the Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance organised by IC Centre for Governance here.</p> <p>”Yes, I am scheduled to go to Pakistan in the middle of this month, and that is for a meeting of the SCO Heads of Government. Normally, prime ministers go to high-level meetings of heads of state, and one of the ministers… Read More »Going To Islamabad For Multilateral Event, Not To Discuss Indo-Pak Ties, Says Jaishankar

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