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New Delhi: Unheralded Afghanistan created history and the biggest upset as they stunned defending champion England by 69 runs to register their only second win in the ICC World Cup after a gap of eight years, at the Arun Jaitely Stadium here today.

New Delhi: Kenya's Daniel Ebenyo on Sunday emerged the new Men's champion while Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana's regained the women's title after six years in the USD 268,000 prize money Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon in the capital city on Sunday.

Contrary to the Dravida Model of sidelining Brahmins in Tamil Nadu as part of the caste politics under the garb of so-called social justice, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu led by Chief Minister M K Stalin has decided to honour father of India’s green revolution late M S Swaminathan by naming the Thanjavur-based The Agricultural College and Research Institute after the iconic agricultural scientist.

On August 7, 1990, Prime Minister V P Singh, driven by his own set of political difficulties, announced in Parliament that the Mandal Commission’s recommendations for reservation of Other Backward Classes would be implemented. It was a turning point for Indian Political system, marking the advent of what came to be known as Mandal politics that was centred on the interests of the backward class voter and transforming the nature of electoral politics with the rise of leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav.

The Israel-Palestine conflict has sent ripples through the shipping and maritime industry, leading international companies to issue cautionary advisories and adapt their operations in the region.

India has been witnessing a systematic weakening of Trade Unionism by the ruling establishment through adoption of labour policies that push the workers more and more into unorganized sector. The unprecedented sufferings that the COVID-19 crisis brought for the working class has made them accepting low-quality jobs that pay too low a wage to survive with dignity sans any social security coverage. Working class protested it throughout the year 2023, and they are now gearing up for stiffer protests ahead.

Ukraine war and more immediately the Hamas-Israeli conflict had driven many things from out of the public view. One of these is the Nobel Prize in Economics in this year to a not widely known academic.

Mallikarjun Kharge assumed the office of Congress President on October 26, 2022. He beat Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor in an election that was fixed to elect him. At the time Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was still on his Bharat Jodo Yatra and the entire attention was on the Gandhi scion. Nobody took Kharge seriously. Not even as a Dalit face of the Congress. Yet it was a momentous time in Congress history. If anybody in the Congress could be considered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s equal, it wasn’t the just-elected Congress President.

New Delhi: Champion Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has been nominated for the Men’s World Athlete of the Year 2023 award by the World Athletics.

Gurugram: In-form Diksha Dagar, will headline the home challenge at the US$ 400,000 Hero Women’s Indian Open slated to be played at the DLF Golf and Country Club here from 19 to 22 October.