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Gandhinagar: On a day when nine new Games records were setup in athletics and swimming, Uttar Pradesh’s Ram Baboo hogged the limelight winning 35 KM Race Walk with record timing in the 36th National Games here Tuesday.

New Delhi: India's Mumtaz Khan and Timothée Clément of France have been named the FIH Rising Stars of the Year 2021-22 in the women’s and men’s category.

At the end of the fourth round of the triple jump finals at 2022 Commonwealth Games, Abdullah Aboobacker found himself in fourth position. A medal seemed unlikely at the moment. But Coach M. Harikrishnan, who couldn’t travel to Birmingham due to visa issue, knew exactly what his word needed to hear then. He realized there was no point in suggesting technical corrections at that moment. Harikrishnan dialed up long jumper Mohammed Anees in the stands and asked him to put the phone on loudspeakers as Aboobacker leaned across to listen.

One opinion poll places the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Congress and AAP in the forthcoming Gujarat assembly elections, slated for December 2022, with the BJP reportedly all set to beat both anti-, and pro-incumbency; perhaps, even another altogether different strain of incumbency if there’s one, in the state where Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat Model’ still models for top pick!

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale’s comments on rising poverty, unemployment and inequality is virtually of the nature of censoring the Modi government for its utter failure to provide a people oriented governance.

While targeting political parties in opposition, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi had equated ‘subsidies and freebies’ as ‘reveri culture’ which he wanted to be stopped. His languages was politically surcharged in such a manner that gave impression to the public that only political parties in opposition are indulging is such a culture and destroying the state finances, and BJP is not doing the same. However, the fact is, BJP ruled Uttar Pradesh is among the top five states in the country with largest rise in subsidies over the last three years. State like Gujarat also spends over 10 per cent of its revenue expenditure on subsidies.

Now that the Congress Party will have a non-Gandhi Chief, what happens to the three Gandhis- Sonia, Rahul, and Priyanka? Will they continue to dominate? When a reporter asked about their future role, Sonia said, "Of course, you have to ask the party, I suppose."

Gandhinagar: Pole-vaulter Siva Subramaniam lead the charge soaring over 5.31m to break his own National Record set four years ago, as Services substantially increased their medal tally in the 36th National Games here on Monday.

Surat: Sperheaded by B Sai Praneeth Telengana upset fancied Kerala 3-0 to win the Badminton Mixed Team gold in the 36th National Games here on Monday.

Dr. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, a renowned Kolkata based Marxist scholar passed away in a city hospital on October 2. He was 74. An unrepentant old-fashioned Marxist, Ramkrishna Bhattacharya preferred, for the most part of his life, to work for the ‘party in the broad historical sense’, as envisaged by Marx in a letter (29 February 1860) to Ferdinand Freiligrath. Of course, during his student life Bhattacharya was involved in active party politics and even became the President of the Bengal Provincial Student Federation. However, he resigned from the post following the invasion of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic by the Warsaw Pact countries headed by the then USSR in 1968. Gradually Bhattacharya withdrew himself from active Left politics which he came to see as increasingly getting tied up with the electoral mechanism. His faith in Marxism as a radical philosophy was never shaken.