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INDIA: SPORTS

TENNIS: MARY PIERCE IN SEARCH OF THE NEXT INDIAN TENNIS STAR AT THE ROLAND-GARROS JUNIOR WILD CARD SERIES

Special Correspondent - 2020-02-18 17:50
New Delhi: The French Tennis Federation (FFT), organisers of Roland-Garros, the world’s premier clay court tournament, in association with the All India Tennis Association (AITA), today announced the sixth edition of the ‘Roland-Garros Junior Wild Card Series ’.

SCOTLAND GETS READY FOR A WALKOUT FROM POST-BREXIT UK

JOHNSON LACKS ‘DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY’ TO GOVERN SCOTLAND
Arun Srivastava - 2020-02-18 13:27
EDINBURG (SCOTLAND): Boris Johnson has rejected a call from Scotland's first minister for a second independency referendum. He said a referendum would "continue the political stagnation Scotland has seen for the past decade". This is nothing but to simplify the peoples’ aspiration and deny the failure of the successive Conservative governments in fulfilling the aspirations of the people.
INDIA

OF MADRASAS AND 'TOLS' IN EASTERN INDIA

ASSAM GOVT DECISION CREATES A BIG ROW
Ashis Biswas - 2020-02-18 13:22
More often than not, political developments in Assam have an instant ripple effect on neighbouring West Bengal. With the unsettling effect of the Assam NRC updating exercise on Bengal and other states still continuing, another administrative decision announced in Guwahati has set Muslims elsewhere restive and uneasy. First out-of-state reactions from the community have just been made from Kolkata.
INDIA

CAN CONGRESS SURVIVE THE CURRENT POLITICAL WILDERNESS?

WELDED TO GANDHI FAMILY, INDIA’S GOP NEEDS A REFORMATION
Kalyani Shankar - 2020-02-18 13:18
Many people are writing off the Grand Old Party, the 135-year-old Indian National Congress, after its poor performance in the recent Delhi polls, as it has suffered one set back after the other since 2014, despite some good patches in between. Can the Congress with such long history disappear? Will the Congress really perish or it will survive? It is for the millions of Congressmen to answer.
UNITED STATES

TRUMP CUTS TRILLIONS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE & MEDICAID

BUDGET WIDELY SLAMMED AS ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-POOR, ANTI-WOMEN
Mark Gruenberg - 2020-02-18 12:40
WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats, progressive groups, and defenders of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid all blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the fiscal year that starts October 1.

AMID CORONA SCARE, GLOBAL INVESTORS DIVERSIFY PORTFOLIOS

FOCUS SHIFTS ON ADDITIONAL RESIDENCE CUM INVESTMENT
Arnab Sengupta - 2020-02-18 12:35
The outbreak of the coronavirus, coupled with record valuations in equity markets, has triggered a global sell-off of high-risk investments and a significant shift in sentiment among global investors. Accompanying the dip is a well-reported surge into traditional safe-haven assets such as gold. As global investors remain concerned that the virus could become far more globally significant, inflows into gold exchange traded funds are 30% higher than last year. Other low-risk investments have reported similar inflows of capital.
INDIA

DELHI AND AHMEDABAD TOP IN ADDED FAT CONSUMPTION

STUDY SAYS VEGETARIANS CONSUME MORE FAT THAN NON-VEGETARIANS
Satyaki Chakraborty - 2020-02-18 12:31
The daily average consumption levels of visible fat (added fat) in Delhi and Ahmedabad was highest among the seven metro cities in India and the lowest in Hyderabad, according to a special analysis carried out by Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) from the database of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) study (2015-16), ICMR-NIN-Hyd. The analysis was supported by International Life Sciences Institute -India (ILSI - India).