In seniority in the BJP leadership team, V K Malhotra, who passed into the ages this week, was next only to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Nanaji Deshmukh, notes Sudhir Bisht.
Bharatiya Janata Party's Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, will lead the party in the coming assembly elections in the national capital.Malhotra was chosen as the party's chief ministerial candidate at a meeting of the Parliamentary Board which met at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi."He is an acceptable and senior leader. He has the potential to lead the party in the coming elections and emerge victorious," BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley said.
The BJP won the Chandigarh mayoral election on Thursday, defeating the AAP-Congress alliance. Harpreet Kaur Babla of the BJP was elected as the new mayor, while the AAP-Congress alliance won the posts of senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor. The victory of the BJP candidate indicated that cross-voting took place during polling. The Supreme Court had previously overturned the result of the 2023 mayoral poll, which had seen the BJP candidate win despite allegations of tampering with ballots. The court had ordered prosecution of the returning officer for the poll, Anil Masih, a BJP leader, for his "misdemeanour." The court had also declared defeated AAP-Congress alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar as the new city mayor. This latest victory is a significant win for the BJP in the city and represents a setback for the AAP-Congress alliance.
The three AAP councillors switching sides is set to tilt the scales in favour of the BJP whenever fresh mayoral polls are held.
Amazon Prime Video has announced 69 assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
Amazon Prime Video has announced a huge number of assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
Akshay and Pankaj Tripathi have the maximum amount of screen time in the trailer and both actors don't disappoint.
While Bollywood could not attend Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra's destination wedding in Rajasthan, they did line-up for another union in aamchi Mumbai.
There's much entertainment coming up from July to December, and Joginder Tuteja highlights those films for us.
Deepa Gahlot lists 10 popular family shows and films streaming on various platforms.
"It's a pity that because there are no big names attached to it, Sony Liv did not go all out to promote this dark and gripping series, the way they did with a Scam 1992. They should have made it track more to ensure it reached more people."
Joginder Tuteja looks at the forthcoming Southside remakes.
The Filmfare OTT awards 2021 were held at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel, and the big winners of the night were quite expectedly, Scam 1992 and The Family Man 2.
Just a day before Shabana Azmi met with a road accident on January 18, she was celebrating husband Javed Akhtar's 75th birthday bash with the rest of Bollywood. And it was a full house, as *everyone* came forward to pay their salaams to one of Bollywood's leading writers and poets.
The duo of Vyas and Desai took the opposing bowlers to the cleaners throughout the innings while stitching a massive first-wicket partnership of 282 runs.
A summary of Tuesday's action in the Ranji Trophy.
There's a lot of action on the OTT front as well as in theatres.
A round-up of Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday
A summary of the first day's proceedings in the Ranji Trophy matches across the country.
If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a successor needs to be done early, observes Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd).
Which one are you looking forward to?
A roundup of Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches on Friday.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Friday.
Bollywood glorifies Mumbai's dons in its movies.
A round-up of the fourth and final day's play in the Ranji Trophy matches across the country.
On the last date of hearing, the Maharashtra police had produced additional letters to establish Moist links of the arrested accused even as the petitioners described it as cooked-up evidence.
A look at the red carpet arrivals.
Queen Elizabeth II had an impromptu lesson in Indian dance mudras, or ritual hand gestures, when the 90-year-old monarch met celebrated dancer and choreographer Arunima Kumar at the Buckingham Palace.
'She really doesn't care if she is called heartless.' 'For her, the job needs to be done. That's all that matters.'
Hema Malini and Shaina NC have also been omitted from the group.
Narendra Modi's stamp was written all over as the Bharatiya Janata Party announced its election campaign committee for 2014 polls on Friday including top leaders Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley who will work under him.
Companies have also managed to find talent created by frequent exits.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Monday.
India Test regulars like Cheteswar Pujara and Ishant Sharma have also thrown their hat into the ring with base prices of Rs 50 and Rs 75 lakh respectively.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday
Ambitious diplomats continue to be attracted to politics but do they make good politicians, asks Jyoti Malhotra
Men and women from mofussil India are buying designerwear either on their laptops or their cellphones.
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