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Dubai: Belgium’s 17-year old Michelangelo Amendola set the early pace by dominating both the free practice sessions as the eighth season of the International MRF Challenge commenced at the Dubai Autodrome, here today.

Dharamshala: Tamil Nadu will look to add a couple of more titles as their Sub-Junior Boys and Sub-Junior Girls have entered the finals of the UTT 81st Cadet and Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championships at the Indoor Stadium here today.

New Delhi: Putting behind last two days disappointments, Indian shooters led by teenager Manu Bhaker hit back strongly to win three of the four gold medals up for grabs on the penultimate day of the World Cup Final (WCF) Rifle/Pistol in Putian, China on Thursday.

Digboi, Assam: Gurugram’s Veer Ahlawat, fired an eight-under-64 to take the halfway lead at the Rs Rs. 60- lakh prize money IndianOil Servo Masters at the Digboi Golf Links.

BHOPAL: Led by the veteran Medha Patkar, more than one thousand oustees of the Narmada project are camping in Bhopal for the past five days to highlight their grievances. They have laid siege to the office of the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) here, spending their nights under the sky and cooking food on the roads. They have declared that they won’t budge from the place till their demands are met.

The government has refused to accept the numbers that showed the falling affordability of the common masses to meet even the essentials. In its denial, the government has openly gone into politicizing Hunger.

The Seville Film Festival in Spain showcased more than 200 films during its run last week, among them Spanish icon Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory and Palestinian Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven.

Make in India, which was poised to be the global hub for manufacturing, lost steam. Prime Minister’s silence on the rampart of Red Fort in his Independence Speech on 15th August, 2019 endorsed the plight.

Senior Jharkhand BJP leader Saryu Roy will contest as the combined independent candidate against incumbent CM Raghubar Das in the ensuing Jharkhand assembly polls. This decision of Roy to oppose Das has not come a surprise. Das’s machination to help the corporate sector get the Adivasi land for setting up big industrial units and also patronise the corrupt elements have made it absolutely clear that going for BJP will prove to be a tough proposition.

Within two weeks of taking over the rule for the second term, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicted Indian economy to be five trillion dollars worth in six years meaning in 2025 ad though he did not elaborate grounds for his belief. A steady growth rate of 14 per cent a year alone can deliver the miracle but even his finance minister Nirmala Seetharaman was not sharing his enthusiasm. Her first insipid budget was mere exercise to balance incomes and expenditure. The stock market indices steeply went down in five hours reflecting disappointment in business world. Drastic change in the corporate tax structure within four weeks could not restore confidence not could pull the business and industrial world out of its dejection.