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New Delhi: Maharashtra's Aakruti Narayan and Odisha's Sohini Mohanty combined well to clinch the girls doubles U-16 title of the 28th Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship at DLTA Complex here on Friday.

New Delhi: Defending champion Chala Regasa (Ethiopia) on Friday exuded confidence of retaining the USD 268,000 prize money Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon scheduled here on 15th October.

In Assam, Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, responding to fresh charges of corruption from the opposition, has launched a sharp counter attack specially targeting the Congress party in the pre-poll campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam unlike in other states, appears to be slightly better placed than its rivals, somewhat helped by a continuing lack of cohesion within a divided opposition.

Just as Union home minister, Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda are about to make a brief visit to West Bengal early next week, fissures threaten to turn into cracks in the state BJP unit. While leading lights of Trinamool Congress, the ruling dispensation are making no effort to conceal their glee at the infighting in the principal Opposition outfit in the state, there are little perceptible signs of its troubles coming to an end.

The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream. The tiger, wanting an excuse to attack the goat, accuses it of muddying the water it is drinking; when the goat points to the impossibility of this, as the tiger is upstream and the water is flowing not to the tiger but away from it, the tiger says: “well, your father had muddied the water I was drinking”.

The ferocious conflict which has erupted with the astounding Hamas attacks in southern Israel and the Israeli counteroffensive with the savage bombardment of Gaza constitutes a new chapter in the ongoing history of the occupation and the resistance to it by the Palestinian people.

Rajasthan polls, that has been rescheduled for November 25 from November 23 by the Election Commission of India on account of very large number of weddings in the state, has offered the twin challenges of “infighting and anti-incumbency” for both the Congress and the BJP.

Elections often throw up surprises. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao isn’t one for unexpected surprises though. He is confident his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, will keep control of the Telangana assembly at the expense of the Congress and the BJP. Reports say money and liquor are inundating the poll-bound state while KCR battles charges of plotting unending family rule. The Telangana Chief Minister is immune to such accusations, and he is convinced overwhelming numbers of Telangana voters will once again vote Bharat Rashtra Samithi to power with him at the helm poised for launching a national role.

An unprecedented gloom has been setting over in our hitherto unblemished skies. All pervasive, suffocating. Since last nine years, right from 2014, there is all out destruction of everything positive. And it does get noticed. The sentinels of media convey to country how pillars are crumbling. Manipur incidents could be shared only after three months, but when it did, it shook the world. The stream continues to flow overcoming the deterrents. For the very sense of awareness about our link with the world, with evolution, or its negation, we are indebted to media. Slowly, media has started occupying the space that it has always deserved. But not for long. Media must be tamed if it has to be ‘His Master’s voice’, this fact has gone deep for those in the power game. All other options are getting removed from the scene.

Not unexpectedly, Israel-Hamas war has sparked off a battle of words and ideas between two mainline political parties in India.