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Gandhinagar: Ace shuttler and coach Gopichand says Gujarat has the capacity, resources and wherewithal to host the Olympics Games.

New Delhi: The sport of Rugby in India received a huge boost with worldwide partners of World Rugby, Capgemini announcing its partnership with the Indian Rugby Football Union (IRFU) on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Ace equestrian rider Fouaad Mirza has exuded confidence of bringing glory to India with a podium finish at the FEI World Championship , scheduled to kick start in Pratoni del Vivaro, Italy on Thursday.

Jaipur: Chandigarh's Abhijit Chadha carded a flawless eight-under 62 to lead the field after first round of the Rs 40-Lakh Jaipur Open at the Rambagh Golf Club here on Wednesday.

In February 19, 2017, at a meeting in Kochi’s Durbar Hall grounds, some of Kerala cinema’s biggest names gathered to protest the abduction and sexual assault of a woman actor. Among those present that day were superstars Mammootty and Dileep Singh, high profile directors --Kammal and Lal and many others.

“There is no God in cinema, Godard is God”- that was how a young member of our South Calcutta Film Club quipped as we were discussing the French films in 1965 after a screening of some films in the French consulate including afilm of one of the founders of French New Wave Jean-Luc Godard. Godard passed away on September 13 in his home in Switzerland at the age of 91 leaving behind a legacy of large number of films beginning with path breaking Breathless in 1960 and ending with The Image To Look in 2018. He was a disruptor in the conventional cinema world of 1960. He invented new idiom of film making and inspired a new generation of thinking film makers in the 1960s and 1970s and later also.

The manner in which the BJP created boisterous situation and its cadres indulged in violence near Nabanna the Bengal Government secretariat on September 13 certainly does not underscore BJP’s effort to stage a comeback, instead it makes explicit that the BJP had contrived a well-designed plan to engineer to wide chaos and violence in the state.

Once Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ makes its way out of Kerala, there should be peace between the Congress and the CPM. In Kerala, other than their committed cadres, the two do not differentiate between voters. The Kerala voter shifts loyalty from one to the other religiously every five years. It appears, however, that Rahul’s yatra would like this covenant broken come 2024, and the left parties have sensed this threat.

Indonesia’s geopolitical plate is piling up as the archipelago state prepares to host the Group of 20 (G20) summit and associated gatherings in November, including the Religion 20 (R20), a high-level meeting of religious leaders, the first under the G20’s auspices.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ yatra losing focus during its Kerala leg? The answer to that question, unfortunately, has to be in the affirmative.