Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion.
All five leaders named have been critical of the saffron party's decision to appoint former chief minister B S Yediyurappa's son Vijayendra as its state president and Ashoka as the leader of opposition.
The next time your child complains that his mathematics homework won't help him in real life, you can tell him that the subject could help cure blood cancer.A new study has shown that maths and medicine could help cure patients suffering from CML or chronic myelogenous leukaemia with an optimally-timed cancer vaccine, where the timing is determined based on their own immune response.
In the second part of the series on three Indian Americans who are pushing the boundaries in their respective fields, Arthur J Pais speaks with Kirin Sinha, winner of the prestigious Marshall Scholarships, who fuses dance and maths.
Amyra attends a wedding... Ali has an announcement... Mahesh Babu goes trekking...
TCYonline.com presents the answer keys to the CBSE Maths exam in the Delhi region.
While he has 57 first-class, 24 List A and 39 T20 wickets at domestic level, Shahbaz Ahmed does have the ability to punch above his weight.
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From a maths perspective, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans can still reach the IPL playoffs, but they need to ward off inner gremlins on Saturday to notch a mandatory win to keep that dream flickering.
Doordarshan has launched a Maths Helpline programme in collaboration with the Mathematical Sciences Foundation.
Looking at E Krishnappa's third Kannada film.
A study has finally dispelled the myth that boys are born better at maths than girls -- in fact, it claims that differences in examination results are down to "nurture" and not nature.
rediffGURU Rohit Gupta, co-founder and COO of College Vidya, offers expert advice on career programmes in India.
India's track record of over-promising and under-delivering also leaves plenty of room for doubt.
While financial planning is good for you, the process which a planner can put you through is not so great, observes financial planner P V Subramanyam.
While Wadiyar, scion of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family, is making his political debut from the Mysore Lok Sabha segment, Lakshmana is state Congress spokesperson and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's confidant.
APESMA chief executive John Vines said the lack of confidence expressed by business community about the standard of Australian education reflects workforce issues.
'It is important to understand that the disability is not in the person.' 'The problem lies in societal attitude and the discriminatory treatment given to disabled people in our country.'
Simanta Roy meets Kirin Sinha, who is turning how to teach girls to SHINE in math on its head, with dance
In a breather to about 17 lakh madrasa students, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Allahabad high court that scrapped the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 calling it "unconstitutional" and violative of the principle of secularism.
Here are some golden nuggets when it comes to creating wealth. Read them and if you find yourself saying, 'This everybody knows', cross your heart and ask yourself how many times you have forgotten these simple rules, says P V Subramanyam.
Get Ahead reader Vinaya is taking the Graduate Admission Test on November 2, and is weak in Reading Comprehension and Maths. Can you help?
Trainers at TCYonline.com share tips and tricks on how to improve your problem-solving skills and speed.
The police found a couple of pages of a purported death note by the seer in which he is said to have blamed some people of "harassing and blackmailing" him.
Trainers at TCYonline.com share some easy to use tips using solved examples.
Manjul Bhargava, who was recently awarded Fields Medal, Math's biggest global honour, tells P Rajendran that society's attitude towards the subject is changing slowly
'The revenue projection arises out of all sectors doing well and the formalisation of the economy helps in making sure the tax domain gets widened.'
Analysts and economists have hailed the fiscal projections in the interim Budget, saying the lower fiscal deficit forecast shows that the government, even in an election year, is serious about fiscal consolidation and that the numbers look achievable. According to Devendra Kumar Pant, the chief economist at India Ratings, the two broad themes of the interim Budget are fiscal consolidation and stepping up focus on agriculture/rural to course correct, to some extent, the differential benefits of the ongoing economic growth that's tilted in favour of upper-income bracket/urban households. The projected fiscal deficit numbers for FY24 and FY25 suggest that the government is serious about achieving the fiscal consolidation path of 4.5 per cent fiscal deficit by FY26, and given the nominal GDP growth assumption and revenue buoyancy, the target appears plausible, Pant said in a note.
Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu, actor Pawan Kalyan and I will come together to get 111 seats in Andhra Pradesh, says Narendra Modi in Hyderabad. Vicky Nanjappa report
'If equities perform well in a year, withdraw money from equities. If the equity market is down, shift withdrawal to the debt portion.'
Usain Bolt, already the world's fastest man, could lop another 0.18 seconds off his 100 metre sprint world record even without running any faster. It's just a question of getting a few conditions right - and doing the maths.
JMM starring Ramya and Sudeep is a romantic film. Songs do the same amount of talking that the characters do.
A 16-year-old Indian-origin 'genius' from Germany has managed to crack puzzles that had baffled the world of Maths for more than 350 years.
The prime minister prostrated before the Sengol and sought blessings from high priests of various 'adheenams' in Tamil Nadu with the holy sceptre in hand.
A prominent seer in Karnataka booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) on Monday broke his silence over the issue, claiming it was part of a long drawn conspiracy against him, indicated an inside job and vowed to come out clean in a case of sexual abuse of high school girls.
If the United States wants to stock its own industry with top-flight technologists, The Washington Post has advocated training young Americans rather than depending on foreign students to boost its economy.
Few actors share Kareena's fearlessness for closeups in their 40s. A still force in a high-strung thriller, her marvellously opaque portrayal of a woman hiding skeletons in her closet turns a crafty police procedural into a wistful story of survival, observes Sukanya Verma.
The government will not fund religious instruction like Quranic interpretation and Islamic law at madarsas (religious schools) but financially support regular subjects like maths and science that may soon be taught there as part of its modernisation process. The human resource development ministry will link madarsas with the National Institute of Open School and introduce mathematics, social sciences, Hindi, English and other regular subjects as part of modernisation.
P Rajendran finds out how Himanshu Asnani, a winner of the Marconi Society's Paul Baran Young Scholars Award, swiftly moved from wanting to become a neurosurgeon or cricketer into engineering
Initially, it was suspected that the question papers were genuine. But CBSE officials, on inspection, found that the papers were fake.
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