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Mamata Banerjee, who is seeking a third term as chief minister of West Bengal, announced Trinamool Congress candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections on Friday. Interestingly, the TMC chief held the press conference in a tiny room in Kolkata's Kalighat.

Why did Mamata Banerjee choose this tiny room for the crucial press conference? It is because she thinks the room is lucky for her. This phenomenon of political leaders succumbing to superstition is not new. Each election season, politicians are seen performing rituals and making 'temple runs' to improve their odds.

While finalising a small room in Kalighat to declare the list of Trinamool Congress candidates, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee also chose Friday for the announcement because she thinks that it is her lucky day.

VK Sasikala aka Chinnamma’s sudden decision to exit politics surprised many in Tamil Nadu and national politics arena.

In a two-page statement to the media late night on Wednesday, Sasikala, closest aid of late J Jayalalithaa, said she was quitting active politics and urged all Amma followers to unite and fight against the one and only enemy DMK and bring hundred years of Amma rule in Tamil Nadu as Jayalalithaa wished.

She did not give any reason for her sudden reversal of her earlier decision to participate in active politics, which she took just after her release from Bengaluru Jail, where she served four years’ conviction in a disproportionate asset case.

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dismissed the allegations revolving around the IT raid that took place at Taapsee Pannu and Anurag Kashyap's premises. The government was accused that Taapsee and Anurag were targeted by the Income Tax Department for their political views that were critical of the Narendra Modi government in the Centre. Without taking names, she said that raids have been conducted in 2013 also but no one raised questions back then.

She said during a press conference on Friday, "When raids happen on an individual when the previous government raided them then there was no problem but in this government, it becomes an issue. Please look back, in 2013 too, there were raids on the same person."

Sitharaman was referring to the reports that Anurag Kashyap was under the IT Department lens back in 2013 under the Congress-led UPA government. The IT agency had reportedly accused Kashyap of tax evasion. The searches at the premises of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and his partners who launched the now-shuttered production house Phantom Films, and Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu by the Income Tax (IT) department have landed them in trouble as the tax agency has found "discrepancy and manipulation of income" running into crores.

Under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi government is working towards making the roads of the national capital accident-free. The Kejriwal government has signed an MoU with the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropy.

The Transport Department will be given necessary technical assistance and its employees will be trained in road safety.

To ensure road safety in the capital, the Delhi government signed an MoU with the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropy. Under this MoU, many well-known road safety experts of the world will provide their assistance to the Delhi Government. Besides, necessary technical support will also be given to the Transport Department of Delhi by the concerned agencies and necessary training related to road safety will be imparted to the employees.