The Congress' central leadership on Monday continued its struggle to placate the never-ending power tussle that keeps haunting the grand old party in the last few remaining states where it is in power. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. |
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THE BIG STORY Tug-of-war in Raj casts shadow over Cong poll The Congress party’s Rajasthan turmoil on Monday threatened to derail its national plans, with an unprecedented rebellion by lawmakers in the state casting a cloud over the party’s upcoming presidential election, as the top leadership scrambled to contain a spiralling crisis of its own making. Read more. |
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 Bhojpur’s Saurabh Kumar built his fantasy T20 cricket team online. He even bet on who’d score and how much. He had all the right guesses for last week’s India-Australia match. Which game company will now pay him Rs 1 crore as prize money? |
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From the Edit Page India’s quest for a new digital order Indeed it is, beyond question, at the appropriate juncture, in due course, in the fullness of time” — Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Prime Minister. The celebrated fictional character in the iconic British TV series, Sir Humphrey, was a master of stalling. By yes, he meant no, not bothering to distinguish between good and bad, between progressive and regressive policy, if he and his beloved civil service retained control. Control is what formed the core of the Indian economy before it was unshackled in 1991. A second watershed moment, albeit unwittingly, was when the mobile phone became ubiquitous in the hands of the citizenry. The first is under peril today, counterintuitively, by market forces, and the concept of control is central to the draft telecom bill 2022, released this month by the department of telecommunications. Read more. |
NUMBER THEORY Is Cong still an ideology based pan-Indian party? The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, led India’s freedom movement and then went on to become India’s dominant political party after Independence. For years, it was the only pan-Indian political party in the country. Does the Congress enjoy a similar stature today? Its leaders think that it does. “It (Congress president) is not just an organisational post, it is an ideological post, which represents a belief system and vision of India”, Rahul Gandhi said on September 22. Read more. |
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HT This Day: September 27, 1962 Liston knocks out Patterson in first round  (Click to expand) Sonny Liston became the new heavyweight boxing champion of the world last night by knocking out Floyd Patterson with a stunning left hook in 2 minutes and 6 seconds of the first round. Read more. |
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