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Mumbai: Procam International, pioneers of distances running events in India, on Wednesday named film star Tiger Shroff as the face of the 17th Tata Mumbai Marathon scheduled to take place on Sunday 19 January 2020.

Mumbai: Mumbai City FC have included 18-year-old Mohammed Asif Khan to their squad for the 2019-20 edition of the Indian Super League, replacing defender Anwar Ali.

NOIDA: Diksha Dagar and Ridhima DIlawari carded identical three-under 69 each to set up a engrossing clash with Tvesa Malik and Gaurika Bishnoi who returned 71 each at the end of the first round of the 14th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Noida Course on Wednesday.

Iraq’s Communist Party has called for a new type of government and for the momentum of the current uprising to continue until its demands are realized as roads were blocked in Baghdad on Sunday. A party statement branded the current system a “terrible failure at all levels” as mass anti-government protests over unemployment, corruption, and poor delivery of services continued. It claimed that the popular uprising had created “a new reality” with people not coming out on to the streets for “partial solutions and cosmetic reforms.”

The last minute paradox, which led India not to join RCEP, was a bolt from the blue to member countries. At the present juncture, the policy makers viewed RCEP as the bane since this will represent India a buying market for the member countries. India’s prominence sparked as a buying country after US-China trade war. USA has been the biggest buyer of RCEP countries. Fears loomed large for trade diversification and India become the dumping ground, had it joined the trade block.

India has refused to be a part of the mega trading bloc Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in its neighbourhood in its present form as its demand were not met. Well that does not mean it has to forgo its Act East policy. Joining a trade bloc is only one of the ways of fostering regional integration. India still remains engaged with ASEAN and its other institutions like ARF, ADDM+ believing in the centrality of the bloc. It is also engaged in other regional and sub-regional groups like East Asia Summit, IORA, IONS, BIMSTEC, Mekong-Ganga Cooperation etc. India has bilateral relations with all countries in the region even up to the remote Pacific Islands. Mutual development, economic cooperation, connectivity and people-to-people contact have been the cornerstone of India’s policy and hence not being part of RCEP does not make the Act East Policy irrelevant in any way.

In a significant development in the communist strategy in influencing the political course in United Kingdom, the Communist Party of Britain, has extended its total support to the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in his bid to oust the Tories from power to implement his programme of building a new Britain for many and not few. The CPB has officially announced it by saying that Britain’s communists will not be putting candidates of their own in the December 12 elections since calling for any vote other than for Labour, jeopardises the prospect of securing a Labour Government.

Law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad reprimanding WhatsApp for criminal breach of the privacy of Indians is like the devil swearing by god.

Amid a changing global economic landscape, South Asia will need to leverage on all sectors of the economy in a balanced way, supporting improvements in agricultural productivity and a sustainable expansion of manufacturing, while promoting higher-skill services, and supporting over 150 million people in the region by a successful high-quality and job-rich growth strategy.

New Delhi: India women's hockey team skipper Rani Rampaul on Tuesday admitted that she is still in "daze" to accept that they have qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.