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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!”

With Earth’s Orbits getting crowded, the risks of Kessler syndrome – a catastrophic and irreversible chain reaction of on-orbit collisions between debris and operational satellites –is becoming high, even though according to the most recent projection by Merrill Lynch/Bank of America the space economy would grow to $2.7 by 2040, while the global commercial revenues reached an estimated $271 billion in 2020. The monetary losses in case of Kessler Syndrome have been estimated to $191.3 billion.

The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist's fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court.

Europe’s centre-right political parties were until a decade ago seen as ‘both dependably dull and dependably stable’. But that is now a thing of the past. Now the continent’s Christian democratic, conservative and market liberal parties together constitute the mainstream right. They are now undergoing significant and fascinating transformations, not least as they confront an ever more serious challenge from the populist far right. The worrisome aspect is the presence of neo-Nazis in some form or the other.

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.