Mexican Grand Prix | Bottas takes pole as Mercedes goes 1-2 in qualifying
The Hindu
Verstappen leads Hamilton by 12 points with five races to go in Formula One's best driver duel in years
got the front-row lockout for the start of the Mexican Grand Prix. The challenge will be holding off the hard-charging Red Bulls and Max Verstappen over 71 laps on November 7.
Valtteri Bottas and seized on what Verstappen called a “terrible” qualifying for Red Bull on November 6 to earn Mercedes its first 1-2 start of the season. Bottas starts from pole position and, most critically, Hamilton gets an early race advantage over Verstappen in their fight for the season championship.

The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











