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Gurugram: Amid nerve wrecking tension Marcel Siem kept his cool at the crucial moments to pip his compatriot and overnight leader Yannik Paul by one shot to become the first German to win the Hero Indian open trophy as the home challenge collapsed on the last day of the tournament at the DLF Golf and Country Club here on Sunday.

New Delhi: The trio of elite runners, Man Singh, Belliappa AB and Karthik Kumar clinched the podium positions in the Apollo Tyres New Delhi National Marathon here on Sunday and qualified for the Asian Games in September.

Panaji: Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will lead the strong Indian challenge at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Goa to be played at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor stadium, here from 27th February – 5th March.

New Delhi: Double Olympic champion David Rudisha on Saturday urged India’s top athletes to go all out in the Apollo Tyres New Delhi National Marathon on Sunday and qualify for the Asian Games later this year.

Gurugram: Veer Ahlawat, Angad Cheema and Honey Baisoya kept home challenge alive even as Germany’s Yannik Paul remained in the lead at the end of the third and penultimate round of the $2 million Hero Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country club here on Saturday.

Though the Calcutta High Court direction on February 10 to Coal India to allow Indian National Mineworkers’ Federation (INMF) to participate in the meetings of the Joint Bipartite Committee on Coal Industry (JBCCI) is a victory to the trade union, this humiliating order does not seem to have any moral impact on the Narendra Modi government, as the sources have indicated further delay in wage negotiations.

A bumper potato crop and a surplus from the previous year have led to a sharp fall in prices. And, it’s driving millions of Indian potato farmers to desperation in the main potato-growing states — Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. India is the world’s second-largest potato producer, with an annual production of 50 million tons. China leads the chart with 78 million tons. Ukraine and Russia take the third and fourth slots with 21 million tons and 20 million tons respectively. The total global potato production was 376 million tons in 2021.

The central leadership of the BJP has been focusing its attention on the north eastern states of the country since then coming into power of the Party in 2014 and in its expansionist efforts, the main vehicle has been the RSS. In the present phase of the assembly polls to the three states Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, all senior leaders of the BJP have campaigned including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Home Minister Amit Shah. The polls in Tripura took place on February 16, the polling in the other two states is scheduled on February 27.

Only the best for the best. And as far as marquee political interviews go, that would be India-born Canadian Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At No.2 is ANI editor-in-chief Smitha Prakash, whose interview with EAM S. Jaishankar was the talk of the airwaves for all of last week.

The Supreme Court this week pronounced a few home truths about the state of our nation. The ‘confession’ came by way of oral remarks in a petition seeking to debar persons against whom charges have been framed in serious offences from contesting elections. But the court’s observations, though making distressing reading, cannot be more candid.