Mallikarjun Kharge & Shashi Tharoor vote in their states. Central Election Authority chair Madhusudan Mistry says 96% turnout registered for polls deciding next Congress chief.
The rally in Bellary was Congress’s show of strength and unity with Rajathan CM Ashok Gehlot, Cong president hopeful Mallikarjun Kharge and feuding state leaders D K Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah in attendance
Senior leader says Congress will benefit from Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka, but BJP govt’s own performance will be its undoing. Response to yatra is tremendous, he adds.
I am not an unabashed admirer of Tharoor—I criticised his book on Hinduism—but he is the only Congress candidate with skill, stamina, principle to dynamise opposition.
Mallikarjun Kharge has so far held 12 meetings with 5 more planned across states & UTs. Plus, a control room in Delhi is reaching out to all those who will vote on 17 October.
The elites aren't comparing Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor based on their political and administrative experience, acumen, or even what is good for the Congress.
A known Gandhi family loyalist, Mallikarjun Kharge is a grassroots leader with a strong electoral record who worked his way up through through student and labour politics.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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