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New Delhi: World Junior Championships bronze medalist Veer Dev Gulia secured his place in the bronze medal contest in 79kg while Naveen (70kg) reached repechage to keep his medal hopes alive at the Under-23 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Fatorda, Goa: FC Goa drew 1-1 against Bengaluru FC in a Hero Indian Super League encounter at the Fatorda Stadium on Monday. Ferran Corominas’ penalty cancelled out Udanta Singh’s opener for the Blues.

Since the re-election of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández of the right-wing National Party in 2017, mass protests have been ongoing in the streets of Honduran cities. That election was considered fraudulent by many, but now a court decision in the United States has added to the anger against Hernández, a close ally of the Trump administration.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The poor performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the five assembly by-elections held in the State has taken a heavy toll on the party.

BHOPAL: Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by poll is causing serious repercussions in both the BJP and Congress. While in the BJP series of dissenting voices are being raised while analysing causes of defeat, in Congress whispers are being heard about the likely changes because of the victory of Kanti Lal Bhuria, a party stalwart.

India urgently needs to work out new agreements with China and Bhutan to save its Northeast region from floods, land erosion and ecological destruction. Policymakers and economists in Assam feel this more strongly than ever, especially after experiencing the most recent spate of devastating floods. This year, according to Assam-based media reports, at least 100 people were killed, while the loss to property was assessed conservatively at Rs 5000 crore. The biggest state in India’s Northeast shares major international rivers like the Brahmaputra with Bangladesh. It is also fated as a downstream state, to receive the excess water flowing down the rivers in Bhutan.

Quite unexpectedly, Rahul Gandhi has shown that he cannot be taken seriously. His mournful silence at a time when the Congress has shown faint signs of revival in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections is one of the most curious political events of recent years.

Things are finally looking up for the Left in Latin America again. After the victory of Eva Morales in the presidential poll in Bolivia on October 20 following a bitter battle with his rightwing opponents, on October 27 just a week after, the conservative government led by President Mauricio Macri was unseated by the Left coalition led by Alberto Fernandes and former President Christina Kirchner. Alberto will now be the new President while Krichner, the main pillar of the popular Front frente de Todos (Everybody's Front) will take over as the Vice-President.

In a country where poverty, hunger and human destitution growth rates more than match the economic growth indices there ought to be something seriously wrong with that country’s economic progression system. Such a situation is possible only in a radically capitalist economy or in banana republics as noticed in some countries in South America and Africa. It is a matter of serious concern that India’s GDP growth in recent years did not visibly improve the country’s ranking in either the UNDP’s Human Development Index or the Global Hunger Index. Poverty, hunger, unemployment and human destitution in India seem to be growing irrespective of its “impressive” economic growth rates in recent years.

New Delhi: India overpowered Chinese Taipei 3-1 to win the title and the gold in the Cadet girls category at the ITTF Junior Circuit Premium Oman Junior and Cadet Open table tennis at Muscat yesterday.