Jaipur: Trailblazers defeated Harmanpreet Kaur-led Supernovas on last ball of the first match of Women's T20 Challenge at Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Monday.

Smriti Mandhana played a brilliant innings of 90 runs from 67 balls.

In the last over, the equation came down to 19 off 6 balls as the senior-most bowler in Trailblazers' ranks took the ball. Harmanpreet smashed four boundaries off the first five balls to bring it down to 3 runs from the last ball. But in the end, experience won, as Jhulan got Harmanpreet to miss as Suzie Bates was run out trying to sneak through a run.

Brief Score :

TRL: 140/5 (20.0)

SPN: 138/6 (20.0)

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Mangaluru: In the recently held by-election for the Dakshina Kannada Local Authorities Legislative Council seat, BJP candidate Kishore Kumar Botyadi emerged victorious. The by-election was conducted on October 21 following the resignation of Kota Srinivas Poojary.

The vote counting took place today (October 24), where Kishore Kumar Botyadi defeated Congress candidate Raju Poojary by a margin of 1,697 votes.

Out of the 5,912 votes cast, Kishore Kumar Botyadi secured 3,654 votes for the BJP, while Raju Poojary received 1,957 votes for the Congress. Anwar Sadat of the SDPI obtained 195 votes, with 9 other votes cast, and 87 votes declared invalid.