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In his centenary year, celebrating, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, reticent sarod legend, who took refuge in Hindustani classical music—a system that challenged him but rewarded him with stillness and equanimity.

Kolkata: Amandeep Drall carded 1-under 69 to lead the field while Vani Kapoor returned even par opening round to be at the second slot in the fourth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour the Tollygunge Club here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) on Tuesday appointed veteran coach Dmitry Dmitruk as the national boxing team’s foreign coach for two years.

Gurugram: Ttwo-time winner, SSP Chawrasia, on Tuesday promised a better showing by home golfers in the US$ 2 million Hero Indian Open to be played at the the DLF Golf and Country Club here from 23 February.

Veteran journalist Sankar Ray who was closely associated with India Press Agency (IPA) for the last twenty years, passed away on Tuesday morning in a Kolkata nursing home. He was 82. He was recuperating from an injury. Despite his age and injury he was active till his last moment.

The latest Employment Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data reveals the great distress in which Indian labour market is presently undergoing. It shows that the formal job creation has been declining sharply, a ground reality, which is in sharp contrast to the PM Narendra Modi’s claim in Rozgar Melas that his government has been distributing jobs and appointment letters and creating large number of job opportunities through appropriate policies.

Integrity of the state is one of the most sensitive issues in West Bengal politics. Yet after the issue of a separate state out of West Bengal has been raised by some BJP legislators earlier, when a resolution was passed in the state Assembly recently against another state being carved out of already partitioned West Bengal, these MLAs found their leadership speaking against them.

At a time when the Indian left has been in a state of stupor and the sympathisers and supporters were looking for some impetus, the 11th Congress of the CPI(ML) Liberation gave a big boost to the left and democratic forces of the country to take on the BJP unitedly in the coming battle, both in elections and outside.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has directed his party workers to corner BJP on the issue of caste census and launch state-wide agitation. Samajwadi Party national President himself raised the issue of caste census during current session of Uttar Pradesh Assembly and said it was required for inclusive growth.

The party name ‘Shiv Sena’. The party election symbol bow & arrow. Both have gone to the Eknath Shinde Group in this fight to the finish. Now, the ‘Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena’ wants the Election Commission dissolved. And, why not? After all, it was the Election Commission which gave away ‘Shiv Sena’ to the Shinde Group unmindful of Uddhav Thackeray’s objections. The scales of justice are not favouring the ‘Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena’. The Uddhav-led faction has challenged the EC decision in the Supreme Court. The court will also hear petitions related to the political fallout of the split in the Shiv Sena.