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New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian para shuttlers Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam, who recently won gold medal in men’s doubles event at the Four Nations Para-Badminton International tournament, visited European Football giants Manchester United stadium, which is called ‘Theatre of Dreams’ in Old Trafford, England, during their tour. “I have been wanting to go to Theatre of Dreams for a long time but never had the time owing to my busy touring schedule, finally I managed to visit it and it was like a dream come true. Getting a tour of the stadium was very inspirational, especially seeing how…

Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) Mohammedan Sporting, the first Indian winners of the tournament, registered their first win of the 132nd Durand Cup, with a 2-1 result over the Indian Navy Football Team (INFT) at the Kishore Bharati Krirangan (KBK), here on Friday. David and Remsanga got the goals in the second half for the winners, while P.M. Britto scored a consolation from the spot for the INFT. Mohammedan had gone down in their opening Group B game to Mumbai City FC whereas the Navy men were playing their first game in the group.The first good chance came to the player…

In an official statement, the poll panel said, “The final proposal has been prepared by the Commission after an extensive and robust consultative exercise with diverse stakeholders, which included three days of public hearings in Guwahati on the draft proposal.”The ECI conducted two rounds of public hearings on the draft proposal — before and after publication of the draft. The latest was done in July last week. Based on the 2001 Census figures, all the Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies in the state were redefined by the ECI.The poll body said that 19 Assembly and two Lok Sabha seats have been…

Godinho was speaking during the launch of ‘Mhaji Bus’ (My bus) scheme in South Goa.Under this scheme, private buses will come under state-run Kadamba Transport Corporation Limited (KTCL) on contract basis to strengthen the bus transport of the state.Godinho urged all bus, taxi and other stakeholders in the transport sector to support technology and digital systems and come on one platform.”Digital systems will be a game changer. Digital system will not allow any manipulation and people will get good service with transparency. We need to improve the transport system. Taxi owners should come on digital platforms.”You can develop your own…

On Thursday the Kerala Assembly witnessed a ruckus after Kuzhalnadan was prevented from speaking by the vociferous treasury bench legislators even as Speaker A.N. Shamseer said that the Assembly is not the place where one can say anything, after Kuzhalnadan had sounded that he will expose a clandestine deal between Veena, her IT company and CMRL, a leading mining firm.On Wednesday, a news item had appeared in Malayala Manorama, a leading vernacular daily, which had reported that CMRL had paid Veena Vijayan and her IT firm Exalogic a sum of Rs 1.72 crore during 2017-2020 for IT services rendered by…

According to the police, around 10.49 a.m. on Friday, the police received a call regarding spotting of the body of a boy following which a police team was dispatched for the spot.”The kid was found by two persons in a drowned condition in around five to six feet deep water adjacent to Pusta Road. The fire department was informed and called after which the body was pulled out,” said a senior police officer.”No injuries marks were found on the deceased’s body. The child was found wearing a blue shirt and white stripes blue shorts,” said the official.”Senior police officials, the…

“Manpreet Singh alias Peeta and Mandeep Singh were both ‘wanted’ close operatives of Dala and had non-bailable arrest warrants against them for carrying out terror acts, including threats and intimidation, and terror funding for banned terrorist organisations in India. Originally from Punjab, they had been living in Manila and were nabbed by the NIA team in an early morning operation, the moment they landed at the IGI Airport,” the NIA said in a statement.The central agency said its investigations had revealed that the accused had entered into a criminal conspiracy to raise funds for the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), a…

However, he also said that some of the state government suggestions were turned down by the EC.”I could not see the final delimitation order published by the EC extensively. I will study and will give my detailed comments in a day or two. However, while EC has accepted some of our proposals related to the delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies of the state, a few were also rejected by the poll panel,” Sarma told reporters here.Meanwhile, Assam minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said: “As a result of this delimitation, the future of the Assamese indigenous people will be secured. They…

The arrested individuals were identified as Hafeez (29), a resident of Nuh in Haryana, Rahil (28), Ikram (33), residents of Palwal in Haryana, Robin (24) and Mursaleen (27), residents of Bharatpur in Rajasthan.The police have also recovered five pistols, 10 bullets, one truck with ATM breaking tools, including a gas cutter and a bottle of spray paint.The accused have been also found previously involved in more than 17 criminal cases, including murder, attempt to murder, abduction, assault on police, hurt, armed robbery, dacoity, intimidation, riots, trespass, ATM breaking, and the Arms Act in various states, including Delhi, as per police…

These injured persons are currently undergoing treatment in the Goa Medical College.”Chief Minister met Rajesh Patil and took update on the treatment and recovery of the injured,” CMO tweeted on Friday.On Sunday night, three persons were killed and three others sustained critical injuries after a speeding Mercedes rammed into three cars and two two-wheelers while heading towards Panaji on the Banastari bridge in Ponda taluka, around 17 km from here.After the accident, the people present at the site told reporters that a woman was driving the car. However, the police have arrested a man.According to police, the driver of the…