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New Delhi: Indian Sub-Junior champion International Master Pranesh M scored an upset victory over two-time national champion and sixth seed Aravindh Chithambaram while third seed Grandmaster Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan) suffered a major setback to his title hopes as he lost to Saparmyrat Atabayev of Turkmenistan in the second round of ongoing Asian Continental Chess Championship here on Thursday.

New Delhi: Top seeds and favourites Praggnandhaa and Tania Sachdev started their championship campaign with draws as the Asian Continental Chess Championship got off to a rousing start here on Wednesday.

Chonburi, Thailand: Debutent Krishnav Nikhil Chopraa, was the best Indian at Tied 20th after the first day of the 13th Asia Pacific Amateur Championships at the Amata Spring Country Club, Chonburi here on Thrusday.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which shook the world, changes in employment patterns have become apparent. Flourishing sectors with dynamic work environments suffered jerks and trembled with fewer jobs, high prices and minimal demand. In the wake of the post-pandemic period, a new phenomenon gaining prevalence is dual job-holding or moonlighting.

Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP's core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which is on a backfoot in the state in recent days, allotting a meatier role to Chakraborty appears to be an act of desperation.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification” to score brownie points.

Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP on Wednesday of building three garbage mountains in 15 years and filling the national capital with waste, and then visited the largest site at Ghazipur today, that became a scene with BJP workers protesting with black flags and sloganeering against him and just some feet away in retaliation AAP workers sloganeered against the BJP. It’s a clear indication that Garbage mountains in Delhi have become a political issue just before MCD election due early in 2023.

With the Assam Government sealing the newly opened museum devoted to ‘Miya culture’ within hours of its opening in Goalpara district, clearly the targeted marginalisation of Bengali speaking Muslim settlers is set to intensify further. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma personally spearheads the offensive, describing the community as not indigenous.

Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Kerala is witnessing the spectacle of a governor who is out of control. One day he is demanding the resignation of all the vice chancellors of Kerala universities and on another day he “withdraws pleasure” from a minister in the government and asks the chief minister to remove him from the cabinet.