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Has Rahul Gandhi’s persistence prevailed? The Gandhi scion has always wanted an elected Congress president, and it seems he is getting his wish fulfilled: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has given her consent to Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to contest the party’s presidential election, and Congress leaders claim there couldn’t be a bigger endorsement of inner-party democracy.

Prince Charles, who held this title for a long time acceded to the British throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last week. He has a robust Indian connection and has been familiar with Indians for decades. After his accession, he became Head of the Commonwealth, a group of 56 independent countries representing 2.4 billion people, including India.

Surat: The best of Indian table tennis, led by Tamil Nadu’s Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan and Delhi’s Manika Batra, will be the star attractions in the initial phase of the 36th National Games, getting underway here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Top golfers will be seen in action in the inaugural Rs One crore prize money Kapil Dev – Grant Thornton Invitational, slated from September 27 to 30 at the challenging Gary Player course of the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon.

Recent revelations of massive corruption in West Bengal Government’s Education department, along with shocking accounts of major criminal activity in Birbhum and neighbouring districts, have shattered the state’s administrative morale. The situation has deteriorated to a point where the Government stands publicly accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about Gujarat-based private sector companies!

“ASHA will be the first port of call for any health related demands of deprived sections of the population, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services,” read the Union Government’s document on Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA). However, ASHA workers are deprived of even ‘worker’ status and hence of all benefits a worker must get for their survival with dignity. Such an exploitative system has been devised by the Union Government just by calling them ‘activist’ and ‘volunteers’.

The skyrocketing wealth of Ahmedabad-based business tycoon Gautam Adani in the last three years may be exciting news for shareholders of Adani group companies, but the same can’t be said about lenders to those enterprises as the liabilities don’t match with their real assets. According to the latest Forbes real-time billionaires list, Gautam Adani’s net worth is $148 billion, making him the world’s third richest man after Tesla chief executive Elon Musk ($253 billion) and French business magnate Bernard Arnault ($154.9 billion). Adani entered the global ‘Centibillionaires Club’ — businessmen having a fortune of $100 billion or more — in April, this year.

New Delhi: India clinched 19 medals including 10-Gold in the 40th Golden Glove of Vojvodina Youth Boxing Tournament in Serbia on Monday.

New Delhi: Haryana's Ritika Dahiya will spearhead four -member Indian Women team's Challange in the International Tent Pegging Championship to be held in Wadi Rum, Jordan from September 22 to 24.

Gurugram: Pranavi Urs who has won five times and finished runner-up three times so far this season so far, hopes to continue her domination of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour as she tees up in the 13th Leg at the Gary Player designed Black Knight layout at the DLF Golf & Country Club, here on Tuesday.