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New Delhi: Indian Junior team captain Skipper Uttam Singh on Thursday exuded confidence of retaining Sultan of Johor hockey title saying, "the tournament will be an ideal litmus test ahead of the FIH Junior World Cup in Malaysia"

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen and former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth crashed out losing to local challengers in straight games in the French Open badminton in Rennes. In the process India’s challenge in the men’s singles came to an end in the tournament

Can law be in someone’s blood? If so, it must run in the veins of the Chandrachud clan. Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud’s grandfather and uncle were lawyers. His father was the 16th and longest—serving Chief Justice of the country, and both his sons are lawyers. Abhnav is in Mumbai and Chintan in London. “I completely dedicated myself to the profession of law, and that left very little time for anything else,” he says.

It is no secret that a majority of Christian organisations and community leaders in Northeast India are upset with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the recent outbreak of ethnic violence in Manipur. This has come as a setback to the saffron party’s long term plans seeking a durable political consolidation in the region, for the present.

Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy’s tactic of remaining on top of the news cycle by challenging Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao week after week since July of this year has been working fine. Revanth Reddy has virtually driven the BJP out of the headlines racket by pitting himself as the sole challenger for the Telangana Chief Minister. He has made the assembly elections a one-on-one between the Congress and KCR’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi with the BJP relegated to whether Tiger Raja Singh’s resurrection will fetch it the lone MLA seat of Goshamahal which it had won in 2018. But most of all, Revanth Reddy's challenge to KCR to contest against him from Kodangal constituency has gone unaccepted, which is a big loss of face for the Chief Minister. Instead, KCR has chosen to contest from two relatively safe constituencies.

On a sacred religious occasion of Dussehra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, played a vicious game of communal politics, when he expressed his diagnosis on social disharmony alleging ‘casteism’ and ‘regionalism’ as the causes, but not even mentioning the hate speeches based on religious bias and communalism. He was grossly wrong on facts and also on his intent.

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has added a new dimension to the current debate on caste-based reservation by stressing the need to advance from the accommodative aspect of the reservation policy as it is practised today to one where reservation would be a tool for empowerment.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat does not enjoy the dubious reputation of speaking lies. But on Dussehra, in his annual sermon, when he tried to dig out the ghost of the “foreign powers” for putting the blame for the unabated six-month-long violence in Manipur, one could not hide the shock at Bhagwat not telling the truth and passing the buck only for the sake of electoral gains.

The Congress was booted out in 2018 assembly polls.. And now it is harbouring hopes to make a return. The ruling Mizo National Front and the opposition Zoram People's Movement haven’t given up hope, though. The BJP in Mizoram has to contend with the sordid happenings in neighbouring Manipur. The MNF is led by Chief Minister Zoramthanga and the MNF and the Congress have held power for three and four terms respectively since the signing of the Mizo peace accord. The MNF is banking on its record of good administration and effective management of government resources for the uplift of the people to keep it in power.

Discontent among the BJP leaders denied party tickets to contest Vidhan Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh and their supporters in the party’s rank and file is slowly acquiring dangerous dimension, a situation which is potentially frustrating for the BJP’s state and Central leaderships, particularly the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and PM Narendra Modi.