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New Delhi: Indian campaign suffered a bit of reversal as Kapil Pokhariya and Sparsh Kumar bow out of Asian Elite Boxing Championships after losing their respective round of 16 bouts in Amman, Jordan on Thursday.

Pattaya, Thailand: It turned out to be an uneven day for the Indians as Mumbai teenager Nishna Patel carded par 72 to be at tied 30th while Kriti Chowhan (73) was at tied 43rd and the National champion, Avani Prashanth (74) was placed joint 52nd after the first round of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific championship. at the Waterside Course at the Siam Country Club here on Thursday.

Workforce in organized sector in India are threatened with large scale job cuts due to a range of factors including rising input costs, operational and supply challenges, rising trend of automation with artificial intelligence, and changing world of work with skill mismatch of the workforce with the available work.

Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side.

October 31 was the day of ‘March on Rome’, when Mussolini proceeded towards the capital of Italy hundred years back, with his black shirt clad young boys with arms. Even before that on October 28, 1922, the king in Italy was forced to accept Mussolini as his prime minister. But that was not all. Mussolini, with the sole aim of destruction of democracy, organised a brutal massacre in 1925.

At a time when panchayat elections are inching closer in West Bengal, indiscipline is rife in state BJP, be it at the leadership level or among the rank and file. Posters seeking whereabouts of Durgapur-Asansol MP, Surinder Singh Ahluwalia in his constituency is a case in point.

BJP-AAP, the political parties ruling the National Capital Territory of Delhi on different capacities, have touched new low in their slugfest while people are gasping to breathe clean air. Already toxic air quality became more hazardous in the morning today when the ‘very poor’ air quality turned ‘severe’. Children and elderly people found themselves struggling to breathe. A leading school had already closed, while the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had asked the Delhi Government yesterday to consider closing the city schools till the situation improves.

If nobody has noticed, Wayanad Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi speaks in riddles and then walks away from them as if it was malarkey, meaningless talk, which made no difference to the task at hand, i.e., Opposition unity, and divesting the BJP of power, both from the Centre, and from the states, wherever the BJP was running government. Is that how it is, does opposition unity matter to Rahul Gandhi?

India's first Nobel Prize winner in Economics Prof: Amartya Sen has stepped into 89 on November 3 this year. It has been a long innings for him as a proactive global intellectual who has made deep impact on the thoughts of the thinking world wide apart from India covering the areas of economics, polity, philosophy and also history.

Pattaya (Thailand): Promising teenager Avani Prashanth, will spearhead six-member Indian challenge at the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific championship at the Siam Country Club commencing here from Thursday.