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Surat: Veteran Achanta Sharath, winner of three gold and a silver in the Commonwealth Games, proved that age is just a number.

Surat: Favourites Gujarat chalked out an easy 3-0 victory over Bengal while Delhi upset second-seeded Maharashtra 3-2 in the 36th National Games men’s table tennis semi-finals at the PDDU indoor stadium here on Wednesday.

Gurugram: Gaurika Bishnoi fired three birdies on the trot in the last three holes, to return 3-under 69 and take a huge six-shot lead at the end of the second round of the 13th Leg of the Hero WPGT at the DLF Golf & Country Club, here on Wednesday.

One of the earliest stories of confidence trickery by serial conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar is from early days in Bengaluru where he grew up. Then a 17-year-old, he is known to have carried around with him a forged letter of Bengaluru police commissioner declaring that the teenager was eligible to drive cars and bikes anywhere in Karnataka.

The new face of Adivasi identity, Hemant Soren, son of the legendry tribal Guruji, Shibu Soren , has blown the war trumpet against the BJP’s design to impair the sensibility of Adivasi individuality and turn Jharkhand into the colony of the capitalists advocating the Hindutva political line by attacking at the social and political base of the saffron brigade in Jharkhand.

Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when top justices of the topmost court are there to exclaim in wonder and tell an acclaimed lawyer defending the hijab, “Sir, it was a pleasure listening to you!”

Prime minister Narendra Modi’s televised interview with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit on September116 at Samarkand is reverberating in the Western international media even five days after the event. All major media houses in USA and Canada are repeating the conversation between the two and showing the recorded clip over and over again.

Indian government is gung ho about Indian economy’s GDP numbers, which recorded a double digit growth in the first quarter this financial year and overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth largest economy. These numbers do give us a sense of pride as they are not insignificant achievements after the economy went for a toss during the last two years.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is gubernatorial grouchiness at its worst. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan must be replaced immediately. The Governor is guilty of going against all accepted norms of gubernatorial conduct, in the process of violating the Constitution he is supposed to uphold.

Arvind Kejriwal seems to have come of age as a politician. The Delhi chief minister is apparently taking a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi book to speak the same language, same content and wear the same demeanor. He needs to be given credit for his assessment that Modi’s language strikes a chord with the masses. He has only put himself in the same shoes.