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New Delhi: Crowd favourite Rashid Khan let go the four shot lead as Philippines golfer Migel Tabuena overturned a six-shot deficit to win the second edition of The DGC Open here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Defying the odds, Preeti put up a tenacious show to stun World Championships silver medallist Lacramioara Perijoc in a thrilling bout while Nitu Ghanghas and Manju Bamboriya also secured emphatic victories at the Mahindra IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Overcoming opening double bogey and a rain-induced break, home favourite Rashid Khan fired four-under par 68 and with a total of 11 under 205 took the sole lead at the end of the third and penultimate day of US$750,000 DGC Open at Delhi Golf Club here on Saturday.

Home minister Amit Shah’s setting the condition at the India Today conclave on March 17 that Rahul Gandhi must apologise for his UK remarks before he can be allowed to defend them in Parliament, is just like confessing the crime which the person has not committed at all. After maintaining a passive silence for more than a week, Shah coming out with this condition, certainly makes its abundantly clear that Narendra Modi is determined to confront the Congress and other opposition parties.

Key workers are essential for societies to function, but India has been repeatedly pointed out by international reports as a country that does not care for its key workers as in the case of ASHAs, or even does not recognize as the key workers as in the case of waste pickers, which increases their plights.

Confusion is setting in among a section of Trinamool Congress activists at the double face of the leadership towards scam tainted leaders even as party supremo Mamata Banerjee have asked them not to despair. They should walk along puffing up their chests, she further advised.

In Tripura, following its recent victory in the Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost no time to reach out to the tribal Tipra Motha (TP) outfit to address the sensitive issue of securing the long term future of indigenous people. As a first step, the Union Government decided to appoint an Interlocutor to work towards a ‘constitutional solution’ for the problems faced by the tribespeople in the state.

Democracy in India is a “global public good”. Rahul Gandhi added as an afterthought. It can’t fail. Speaking in British Parliament to a packed hall with politicians, diaspora leaders, students and academic, he’d just outlined why India’s democratic structures are under threat. From the Hindu right’s institutional capture to its stifling of dissent, targeting minorities, curtailing media freedoms, the list is long. His appeal was heartfelt, experiences from the Bharat Jodo Yatra structures, and focus on inequality, unemployment, institutional integrity and women’s rights apt. He’s not a political greenhorn—quite the opposite. But despite such merits, Rahul failed to convince.

What is happening in Telangana? After Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha declined to entertain the Enforcement Directorate’s invitation to drop by for another round of questioning in the Delhi Excise Policy case, there’s not much been heard of, and from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi. The Congress has hijacked the political narrative from not only the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, but also from the rest of the opposition parties.

New Delhi: Ace full back of yore and former India captain Gurbux Singh was awarded the prestigious Hockey India Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award 2022, at a glittering function here on Friday.