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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.

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.

Ecuador belonging to the Latin American continent is witnessing its run off Presidential elections on October 15, Sunday culminating in a fierce poll campaign marked by jail killings, car bombings, shootings and a widespread security crisis involving the common citizens. The Left wing Presidential nominee Luisa Gonzalez who entered the runoff campaign as the frontrunner after the first Presidential elections, is currently behind his young opponent Daniel Noboa by about seven points in opinion polls. Only a last minute miracle can ensure the victory of Gonzalez who belongs to the party of the former President Rafael Correa.

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”.

'Global Jihad Day', Friday, October 13, was an imposition on the non-Muslim world. The Muslim world has a grudge and the rest of the world has to pause and pay. It is about who is the aggressor and who is the silent sufferer? It is no longer ‘Hamas’, but the entire Muslim fraternity. A former head of Hamas gave the call for ‘Global Jihad Day’ and governments worldwide bent at the knee to comply, except for a few honourable mentions.

On Tuesday, Joe Biden said he’d formally ask Congress to approve military funding for Israel in the coming days, emphasizing: “We stand with Israel. And we will make sure it has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, and respond to this attack.” The sentiment is understandable given the horror of Hamas’s massacre on October 7.

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.