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New Delhi: Host India has been placed in a very tough Group A alongside eight-time champions China, two-time champions Chinese Taipei, and Iran in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup scheduled for January-February next year.

New Delhi: Seasoned campaigner Narender thrashed Sierra Leone’s Mohamed Kendeh to enter the pre-quarter-finals in the super heavyweight category of the AIBA Boxing Championships in Belgrade.

New Delhi: Dubai-based Arjun Gupta will spearhead the Indian challenge at the 12th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship (AAC) slated at the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club, from 3-6 November.

New Delhi: A thrilling contest is in the offing as Teams Baale Golf, BMW-Deutsche Motoren, K Devils and Delhi Tigers will lock horns for a spot in the final of the Delhi Glub League on Sunday.

New Delhi: Top seeds Nikki K Poonacha and Zeel Desai put it across their rivals in style to cruise into the semi-finals of the men and women's singles of the Fenesta Open tennis championship at DLTA here on Thursday.

Chile, an important nation of Latin America is going for the Presidential polls on November 21 this year, the outcome of which will be very crucial for the political future of both this country and the region as a whole. The left movement in the other countries of the continent are eagerly looking for the results of this election as it will have impact on the coming polls in other countries.

Afghanistan is now in a penumbra of bloody uncertainty which the Taliban 2.0 is too myopic and strategically incapable to overcome. As a result, Kabul, the capital of war-torn country, is fast turning into something utterly beyond recognition. The vibrant nightlife and arts scene of Kabul before the Taliban had swept to power in Afghanistan is now in a nightmare that does not know where it will end up to. Apparently, a radical transformation sans any semblance of human touch takes place there with thousands of longtime Taliban fighters, having poured into Kabul , working in round-the-clock security patrols.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy over the adoption of a newborn in the State capital has acquired a distinct political hue with the Government asserting that there is nothing illegal about it and the Opposition accusing the Government of abetting it.

Scientific ‘net-zero’ is a solution to the overheating of the earth and hence any criticism cannot be sustainable. However, nobody should be allowed to use it as a trap against any nation. The Emissions Gap Report 2021 released just a few days ahead of COP26 should be an eye opener for all that has pinpointed the vagueness and deception underlying the already announced ‘net-zero’. When India says net-zero is ‘not a solution itself’ it does not criticize or reject the scientific ‘net-zero’ but the ‘climate injustice’ the whole world has been subjected to since the industrial revolution after 1850s.

The role played by the 41 Ordnance Factories as a government of India departmental defence industry for the security and defence preparedness of our country was immense, though went unnoticed. But for them, it would have been impossible for the Indian Armed Forces to have won the Indo-Pak War of 1965, Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and the Kargil War of 1999. Unfortunately, the present government not only failed in recognising their services, but also undermined the very existence of these 41 Ordnance Factories as a composite organisation with its unilateral decisions.