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Karnataka polls: Siddaramaiah will pay the price for dividing Lingayats, says HD Deve Gowda. Though the battle in Karnataka is between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda has lately been dominating the news. He’s been accused of having cut a deal to support the BJP in the event of a hung Assembly. Recent praise for him from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reports from the ground suggest something is afoot. Gowda denies any such understanding and in an interview with Y Maheswara Reddy of 101Reporters for Firstpost explains why he thinks the JD(S) will come to power.
Karnataka elections: Narendra Modi to interact with state BJP women's wing workers through NaMo app tomorrow. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Fridayinteract with the office bearers and workers of the BJP's Karnataka women's wing through the NaMo App.
With Karnataka polls around the corner, both BJP and Congress reduce women empowerment to a poll plank. Last week, the Congress party held a ‘Jan Aakrosh Rally’ or a public anger rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi. On 29 April, at this rally, Congress workers held aloft placards and posters with Rahul Gandhi’s photo and the line, “Rapes not my new India (sic)”. Gandhi said, during his address, “Modiji speaks about 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao'. However, in the history of India – for the first time in 70 years – India’s prime minister has been questioned abroad. He was told that women in India are not safe, that women are being attacked.”
Karnataka polls: Supreme Court's order demoting SC/ST officers in state irks community, may impact electoral results. A few days ahead of the Karnataka Assembly polls, over 20,000 government officers belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities are being demoted across all government offices in the state. Acting on a Supreme Court order that revoked reservation in promotions, the Karnataka government has started the process of demoting officers.

Europa League: Arsene Wenger and Arsenal must take inspiration from 2006 to overcome tricky Atletico Madrid. To put it plainly, the 2017/18 season has not gone as per plan for Arsenal. The Gunners had finished a disappointing 2016/17 by winning the FA Cup, but knew that the next season had to be better, as the club looked to return to the Champions League. Despite the optimism, they were never really in the picture to finish in the top four, let alone contest for the title, leaving the Europa League as their only way to salvage a lost season and get back into Europe's premier club competition.
Champions League: Roma's profligacy against Liverpool ensures their roller-coaster ride meets a dead end. It took nine minutes to crack the dream. It took 26 to demolish it. Or so everyone thought. Roma’s second-half rally, though, broke the narrative. It brought the host on the verge of a place in the final but profligacy ensured a turnaround did not materialise. Edin Dzeko could have had a second-half hat-trick, his teammates fluffed their lines, and two reasonable penalty shouts were overlooked by the referee. The miracle would just not appear for Roma.
New Zealand Open: Lakshya Sen reiterates credentials as future of Indian badminton by stretching Lin Dan. Lakshya Sen. Remember the name, carve it on your memory wall in the unlikely event that you have not heard it. The lad from Almora, Uttarakhand, was the runner-up in the 2016-17 Nationals, narrowly missing the chance to break the record of the iconic Prakash Padukone – of winning the men’s singles national title while still a junior. Sen is the future of Indian badminton.
The Arsene Wenger Era Part 4: Despite FA Cup success, Arsenal could barely match rivals' financial and technical might. “You can always discover new things in football. Every game is a new adventure. That’s why the excitement is the same,” perhaps the only thing which trumps Arsene Wenger’s love for Arsenal Football Club is his adulation for the beautiful game. And it is this childlike glee of the Frenchman which invigorated football fanatics and the sports media on the eve of Wenger’s 1000 game in charge of Arsenal. After all, in the post-Ferguson, ultra-modernist era of European football, Wenger was the only flagbearer of stability and constancy – the only sensible voice when it came to limitless expenditures in the transfer market.

Dust storm kills over 100 in UP and Rajasthan, injures 183; MET predicts another bout in 48 hours. A storm whipped through a large swathe of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh last night, killing over 100 people in a trail of destruction that brought down mud houses, uprooted trees and flattened crops. At least 183 others were injured as a massive dust storm, followed by thunder showers, snapped power lines and sent tin roofs and street hoardings flying in parts of eastern Rajasthan and the adjoining areas of Uttar Pradesh.
Maharashtra insecticide poisoning deaths: State govt submits proposal to Centre, seeks banning of five toxic substances. Months after the deaths of 63 farmers and farm labourers due to insecticide poisoning in various districts of Maharashtra, the state government recently submitted a proposal to the Central government to ban four insecticides.
Democracy In India Part 8: Strong democratic process engendering surplus of free speech, empowering communities. Editor's Note: As the Indian Republic turns 70, Tufail Ahmad begins a journey through the country to examine the working of democracy at the grassroots level. Inspired by the French author Alexis de Tocqueville, who toured America and wrote Democracy in America, the author — a former BBC journalist and now senior fellow at the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute — will examine how sociological realities of India and the promise of democracy interact with each other in shaping the lives of the Indian citizen. This report is the eighth in a series called "Democracy in India".
Fire breaks out at Ahmedabad's ISRO research centre; 25 tenders rushed to spot, no casualties reported yet. Ahmedabad: A major fire broke out at a research facility located in the Space Application Centre (SAC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Nobody was reported injured in the blaze, they added. "A major fire broke out at the research centre inside the sprawling SAC campus in the Satellite area of the city this afternoon. As many as 25 fire tenders have been pressed into service by the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES)," an AFES official said.

Kabul twin blasts: Pakistan's role can't be ruled out; Ashraf Ghani govt-Taliban peace talks have turned glacial. When writing on Afghanistan, one tends to run out of adequate adjectives to describe the unending horror of the conflict that has been going on for over three decades. The recent suicide bombing in Kabul seemed, however, particularly bizarre. News of the event got out slow because almost all of the journalists who were present at the site of the explosion were killed in a second blast deliberately timed to hit those who hurried towards the first explosion. Those, on whom, we depend to provide us with the news, were literally blown apart. Courageous journalists are always in danger, but this 'ten at one stroke' hits particularly hard.
Kabul twin blasts: Pakistan's role can't be ruled out; Ashraf Ghani govt-Taliban peace talks have turned glacial. When writing on Afghanistan, one tends to run out of adequate adjectives to describe the unending horror of the conflict that has been going on for over three decades. The recent suicide bombing in Kabul seemed, however, particularly bizarre. News of the event got out slow because almost all of the journalists who were present at the site of the explosion were killed in a second blast deliberately timed to hit those who hurried towards the first explosion. Those, on whom, we depend to provide us with the news, were literally blown apart. Courageous journalists are always in danger, but this 'ten at one stroke' hits particularly hard.
At least five dead after Puerto Rican military plane crashes in Georgia, probe to ascertain accident's cause underway. A Puerto Rico Air National Guard cargo plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia, scattering fiery debris over a highway and railroad tracks, and likely killing all nine people aboard, officials said. At least five were confirmed dead, a US official said on condition of anonymity, adding that the number of fatalities could rise.
Donald Trump's lead lawyer in Russia probe steps down; president hires attorney who represented Bill Clinton during impeachment. Washington: US President Donald Trump added a top impeachment attorney to his legal team Wednesday after the lead White House lawyer for the Russia meddling investigation stepped down. The recruitment of Emmet Flood, who represented president Bill Clinton when he was impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate in 1998-99, signaled that the White House is going on the offensive as it girds for a tough battle over presidential powers and possibly obstruction allegations with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who leads the Russia probe.