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New Delhi: Mumbai Indians on Friday named South African record-holding wicket-keeper Mark Boucher as their Head Coach.

There are fundamental objections to the plan of the government to privatise at least some of the public sector banks. They centre around the fact that such a move will change the pattern of deployment of credit, away from productive activities towards speculation, away from peasant agriculture towards big business (with dangerous implications for peasant viability, food security and employment), and away from domestic to global destinations.

Jaipur: Chandigarh's Abhijit Singh Chadha carded five-under 65 to regain lead in round three of the Jaipur Open at the Rambagh Golf Club here on Friday.

With only a fortnight to go, this edition of Durga Puja in Kolkata has a special significance. Hailed as a public art exhibition on par with Venice Biennale and Rio Carnival, Durga Puja, this year, begins on October 1 in Kolkata and all over India. During the event, class, religion, and ethnicity will unite as crowds of spectators walk around to admire the installations. Last year, UNESCO declared that Durga Puja is the best instance of the public performance of religion and art, a thriving ground for collaboration of artists and designers.

Given Bharatiya Janata Party's goal of becoming the ruling dispensation in West Bengal, the saffron camp has put its best foot forward in the state even when it is in a twilight zone. The areas of darkness are formed by successive electoral defeats and desertions while some passages in its path are lit up by some of the Trinamool Congress leaders being summoned by probe agencies on alleged corruption charges while a few find themselves behind the bars.

Some of the headlines make it sound like there was a fair bidding between Maharashtra and Gujarat for the Foxconn-Vedanta semiconductor project and Gujarat won the project, as well as the fair-play trophy, fair and square! Far from the truth! The fact is, Maharashtra never stood a chance, not when Gujarat is Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s home-state with Home Minister Amit Shah an unmoving stumbling block by Modi’s side.

In the renowned writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel “Kapalkundala", there is a famous dialogue "Pathik, tumi ki path haraiacho" (Traveller have you lost your way)., Scanning the observations of the Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on its ninth day in Kerala, it seems that the dialogue of Kapalkundala is apt for the Congress Party which is currently on to a 3500 km Yatra through 12 states and two union territories in 150 days led by the indomitable52 year young Rahul Gandhi.

Kolkata: An own goal at the half-hour mark by defender Odei Onaindia Zabala, enabled Bengaluru FC to pip Indian Super League (ISL) champions Hyderabad FC 1-0 and set up a title clash with Mumbai in the 131st IndianOil Durand Cup football tournament here.

New Delhi: Stage is set for a fierce contest for top honour as Uganda’s world half marathon record holder Jacob Kiplimo on Thursday confirmed his participation in the US$268,000 Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon, a World Athletics Elite Label Event, slated to be held here on Sunday 16 October.

New Delhi: Heirok Higher Secondary, Imphal, overpowered spirited Barway High School, Gumla, Jharkhand 2-0 to win the 61st Subroto Cup International Football Tournament Boys U-14 title at the Ambedkar Stadium here on Thursday.