BHOPAL: What began as a high-stakes political gamble by BJP and triggered allegations of horse-trading, constitutional conspiracy, midnight protests and legal warfare finally ended on Thursday with an anti-climactic yet politically explosive finale for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajya Sabha battle.With the 3 pm deadline for withdrawal of nominations expiring and Congress nominee Meenakshi…

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP and Mamata Banerjee loyalist Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday gave an ultimatum to the party supremo saying that she “will have to choose if she is with her nephew Abhishek Banerjee or a senior party worker like me.““I am with Mamata Banerjee, but Didi will have to decide if she is…

Tamil Nadu’s food system relies a lot on a workforce that rarely gets noticed. Bees. The primary pollinators of crops such as mango, coconut, sunflower and cotton, without them yields could reduce by 40%, or in some cases, 90%. Yet across the state, from Kanyakumari, the honey capital of India, to the Nilgiris, these pollinators…