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Kolkata: An eight-member FIFA delegation led by Oliver Vogt is here on a six-day visit for an official inspection to evaluate the progress and preparations for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2020.

Ajmer: In what were thoroughly one-sided and dreary final affairs, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) lifted the silverwares in the 49th Inter-Institutional Table Tennis Championships as they sent their rivals packing with an identical 3-0 margin of victory at the MCC Indoor Stadium here today.

Jalandhar: World Championships bronze medallist Vinesh Phogat will headline the Senior National Wrestling Championships to be held here from November 29 with over 500 grapplers vying for top honours in the men’s freestyle, Greco Roman and women’s events.

Guwahati: NorthEast United will look to consolidate their position in the top half of the Hero Indian Super League table when they take on Mumbai City FC at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here on Wednesday evening.

Kolkata: World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen scored an impressive 27/36 to win the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz 2019, taking home $37,500 and a glittering trophy. He also regains the world number one spot in Rapid Chess and is the world number two spot in Blitz Chess.

New Delhi: World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying and promising youngsters, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy hogged the limelight as they were bought by Bengaluru Raptors and Chennai Superstarz respectively while world champion PV Sindhu was retained by Hyderabad Hunters ahead of the fifth season of the Premier Badminton League (PBL), here today.

An open letter signed by scores of artists, filmmakers, playwrights and writers has pledged “full support” for Labour’s manifesto, It’s Time For Real Change, which they describe as “the most visionary offered to the British electorate in living memory.”

China has come up with a fresh idea to kickstart an organised movement of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to Myanmar. Progress on this critical part of the proposed resolution of the Rohingya repatriation issue has remained stalled for months, despite ongoing parleys involving India, China and Bangladesh.

The defeat has been monstrous for the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The ruling establishment of China has never imagined in its dreams that the young Pro-Democracy candidates of Hong Kong would show the Chinese veterans their right places.

Violence is a complex issue with various factors involved in it. Violence may be interpersonal, or self-inflicted. Whereas these carry negative impact, but the collective violence has much larger ramifications and can cause collateral damage. According to ‘World report on Violence and Health’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), over 1.6 million people worldwide lose their lives to violence each year. In the last century an estimated number of 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly as a result of armed conflict.