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Guwahati: Assam’s Shivangi Sarma and Karnataka’s Khushi Dinesh raked in their third gold medal eachin the swimming competition at the Khelo India Youth Games 2020 here on Saturday. West Bengal’s Swadesh Mondol and Karnataka’s Nina Venkatesh completed a double each before SrihariNataraj dominated the boys under-21 100m backstroke.

Bhubaneswar: FIH Hockey Pro League debutants India made a dream start to the 2020 competition, powering to a superb 5-2 victory against the Netherlands in a breathtaking encounter at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

Mumbai: Defending champion and course record holder Sudha Singh, Srinu Bugatha, Jyoti Gawte, and Rashpal Singh are prepared to go head to head over the classic distance in this year’s Tata Mumbai Marathon and clock in a new personal record.

Kolkata: ATK emerged 2-0 victors against Goa in a closely-fought top-of-the-table clash in the Hero Indian Super League at the Salt Lake Stadium here on Saturday.

BHOPAL: A dinner hosted by a MP Minister has caused a sort of political storm in the state. Dinner was hosted by Govind Singh Rajput, who is regarded as a committed follower of Jyotiraditya Scindia. Though Rajput invited all the Ministers including Chief Minister Kamal Nath but many Ministers including Chief Minister did not turn up. This fact converted dinner into a factional event.

It is a tale of two countries. India’s growth rate slumped and it has caused a furore. The government has been held responsible for the sudden drop in GDP growth rate on account of its policy mistakes. In China, economic growth has fallen to a three-decades depth. At just about 6.1 per cent GDP growth in 2019, it is a distant call from those of days of two-digit growth rates in that country over decades.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has asked the rank and file, upto the lower level of the organisation, to reactivate the block level committees to use their full might to counter the anti-citizenship protest and ensure that the forces opposed to the idea of Hindu Rashtra are denied new pastures.

A question invariably asked is why Narendra Modi government has invested so much political capital in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)? The Act, critics say, is plainly illogical, not least because it leaves out of its purview the largest group of stateless refugees currently living in Indian soil—Tamils from Sri Lanka —many of whom are Hindus. The Act is also manifestly immoral, in that it singles out one particular religion—Islam—for particularly spiteful treatment and exclusion from any refuge.

Guwahati: Shivangi Sarma (Assam) and Khushi Dinesh (Karnataka) claimed a double gold each while Maharashtra’s Kareena Shankta accounted for a Best Indian Performance on the opening day of Khelo India Youth Game swimming competition at the Zakir Hussain Swimming Pool here on Friday.

Mumbai: Amateur Pranavi Urs made up for her last week’s final hole disaster by winning the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club on Friday.