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By Chaitanya Kalbag Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire Absurdity was piled atop absurdity as seven weeks of vitriol ended in a splash on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a seaplane ride. When this prime minister arguably the most powerful mass leader we have had in a generation breaks security rules his loyal ministers fall over themselves to promise a review. He sets the rules. Our politicians have plumbed new depths in slander and abuse. This is a bottomless pit: with social media amplifying every word and gesture we have heard enough about everything from imported mushrooms to Allauddin Khilji s offspring. Although Modi has only seven million fewer followers than Donald Trump s 44 million on Twitter he has to work much harder making speech after stump speech. He cannot take anything for granted least of all the seven million Gujaratis between 18 and 25 who were eligible to vote in the 2017 election - which is why hoppi...

The Gujarat Assembly election 2017 is quite significant for the Indian National Congress (INC) because the birthday party is making an attempt hard to overthrow the rule of thumb of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who is in energy within the country for ultimate 22 years. The election is also critical for Rahul Gandhi - the newly appointed president of Congress celebration. It s an opportunity for him to persuade an electoral comeback for his birthday celebration in the nation. For the Gujarat Assembly polls 2017 Congress birthday party has fielded 176 applicants for the 182 seats. Here is the entire listing of Congress candidates contesting in the ongoing election battle in Gujarat: Constituency Candidate Abdasa Pradyumansinh Jadeja Akota Ranjit S. Chavan Amraiwadi Arvindsinh V. Chauhan Amreli Pareshbhai Dhanani Anand Kantibhai (Soda) Parmar Anjar V.K. Humbal Anklav Amitbhai Chavda Ankleshwar Anil Bhagat Asarwa - SC Kanubhai Vaghela Bacharaji Bharat https://500px.com/kiran77ns1 Thak...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President-designate Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appealed to the voters in Gujarat to exercise their franchise in the second phase of polling that has begun. Today is Phase 2 of the Gujarat elections. I request all those voting today to vote in record numbers and enrich this festival of democracy Modi said in a tweet. The ushering in of a new Gujarat has already begun. Your one vote will strengthen and empower the foundations of democracy. I appeal to the people of the state to vote more and more for a bright tomorrow Gandhi tweeted. Voting began in 93 assembly constituencies across 14 districts in northern and central regions at 8 a.m. and will continue till 5 p.m. There are 851 candidates in the fray. Elections are being held in Banaskantha Patan Sabarkantha Mehsana Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Aravalli Mahisagar Panchmahal Dahod Kheda Anand Vadodara and Chhota Udepur districts in the northern and central regions. The first phase of polling...

The BJP today attacked the Congress for allegedly indulging in corrupt practices after a court here found former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda guilty in a coal block allocation case and Delhi Police arrested its MLA in a money laundering case.Addressing the media in Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said the Koda government was backed by the Congress when the scam occurred which put the party and the previous UPA government in the dock. The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court today pronounced Koda and three others guilty of criminal conspiracy in the coal scam case in which they allegedly illegally ensured allocation of a Jharkhand coal block to a Kolkata-based firm.Mr Goyal also said that three-time former Congress MLA from Delhi Rajesh Jain was arrested last month allegedly for converting black money through shell companies and hawala after demonetisation. Madhu Koda was propped up by Ahmed Patel. The party made ...

BUENOS AIRES: The outcome of the eleventh ministerial conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was a positive one for India as the country was able to secure the interests of its farmers as well food security for the poor an official said on Wednesday after the talks concluded with no substantial legally binding declaration. India was successful stopping any of the new issues like investment facilitation and micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from entering the ambit of the WTO. Though there was no ministerial declaration work programmes on issues like fisheries subsidies and e-commerce became the outcome of the four day meeting which culminated on Wednesday. Work programmes are the guiding principles for an issue to move forward by the next ministerial while a ministerial declaration is a text with legal sanctity. In case a declaration is not there it s replaced by the chair s statement which sums up the negotiations and the road ahead. The chair s summary is n...

MOHALI: Statistical highlights of the second ODI between India and Sri Lanka on Wednesday. # India s 141-run triumph is their biggest by runs margin at Mohali obliterating the 64-run win vs Zimbabwe on March 10 2002. # India (392/4) have recorded their third highest total in ODIs at Mohali - the top two being 414 for seven at Rajkot on December 15 2009 and 404 for five at Kolkata on November 13 2014. # India s aforesaid score is the highest by any nation at Mohali outstripping the 351 for five by South Africa vs Netherlands on March 3 2011. Their previous highest total at this venue was 321 for nine vs Pakistan on November 8 2007. # India became the first team to register 100 totals of 300-plus in ODIs followed by Australia (96) South Africa (79) Pakistan (69) and Sri Lanka (66). # Rohit Sharma s superb unbeaten innings of 208 is the second highest by a captain in ODIs - the highest being 219 by Virender Sehwag vs West Indies at Indore on December 8 2011. These two innings are the on...