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Guwahati, Aug 9 (IANS) Chennaiyin FC will be aiming to begin their new campaign under former coach Owen Coyle with a victory as they gear up to lock horns against Hyderabad FC in their campaigner opener of 132nd Durand Cup at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, here on Thursday. The ongoing 132nd edition of the Durand Cup which is Asia’s oldest football competition includes a total of 24 teams from the Hero Indian Super League (ISL), I-League, and the Armed Forces, which have been organised into six groups of four teams.The top teams from each group and the two best…

The 33-year-old Moroccan reunites with head coach Juan Pedro Benali and he becomes the fifth foreign player for the campaign.Bemammer took his first steps in football at Maghreb de Fes in Morocco. Interestingly, it was under Benali, who was the club’s then-CEO, that he signed his first professional contract in 2009. The defensive midfielder then went on to play for Raja Casablanca, Difaa Hassani El Jadidi, FAR de Rabat, and Ittihad Tanger before returning to his boyhood club last year.Benali and Bemammer were also briefly reunited at Ittihad Tanger where the Spaniard helped the club avoid relegation.”Ali is a very…

Ramesh’s remark came after Shah taunted Rahul Gandhi’s much-hyped 2008 visit to the home of a widow — Kalavati Bandurkar — in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha.Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, without naming him, and Shah, the Congress Rajya Sabha MP said, “Amit Shah is completely following the path shown by his Saheb. Leave the election rallies, they are saying anything in the Parliament to mislead the country.””She (Kalavati) herself has told what Rahul Gandhi did for her after meeting her,” Ramesh said, attaching a video clip of Shah and the remarks of Kalavati.His remarks came after Shah in the…

Mandaviya, who is also the Minister in-charge of Chemicals and Fertilizers, made the appeal while reviewing the Good Manufacturing Practices and Compliances of Pharma Industry. “Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya reviewed Good Manufacturing Practices and Compliances of Pharma Industry. Called for further strengthening ‘Continuous Self Monitoring of Regulatory Compliance’ by manufacturers.This will give big boost to India’s reputation as pharmacy of the world,” Mandaviya’s office wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. The Minister also urged the industry to do a self-assessment of its manufacturing processes and make their own teams to inspect their plants to ensure the highest levels of production…

A census was conducted as a part of the Synchronized Elephant Population estimation — conducted once in five years, and being held across the southern states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.Speaking to reporters after releasing the elephant census report at his office in Bengaluru, Khandre said that in 2017, there were 6,049 elephants in the state. According to the latest census on elephants, the number has increased to 6,395.Khandre said that to ascertain the decrease or increase in the number of elephants, the census is undertaken every five years.Such a census was undertaken in 2017. An attempt was made…

He also said that the NDA government has failed to bring any Kashmiri Pandit back to the valley. Meanwhile in another interesting incident in Lok Sabha seen during the discussion on the no-confidence motion, Shiv Sena member Shrikant Shinde, the son of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, recited the Hanuman Chalisa in the House. Abdullah, while participating in the discussion on the no-confidence motion, said that PM did not just represent one colour, and instead, represented all of India. He said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were proud to be part of India. “But this nation has a…

Opening the batting in his third match for Northamptonshire, Shaw reached his hundred in 81 deliveries before switching gears to slam a mammoth 244 off 153 balls, also the second highest score in a county List A match as his team posted a humongous 415-8.Shaw hit 11 sixes and 28 fours and put on a big partnership of 194 with Sam Whiteman (54) for Northamptonshire. The right-handed batter reached his second ton in very quick time, off just 129 deliveries.The double century has also seen Shaw join a select club of batters scoring multiple List A double hundreds, with India…

However, at a strategic meeting that was convened in Guwahati on Wednesday to chalk out the strategy for next year’s general elections, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted that the saffron camp will consider the entire northeast as a single bloc and the party will focus on all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the region equally.At the meeting that was attended by the BJP chiefs of several northeastern states, Sarma claimed that despite the continuing unrest in Manipur, BJP will win both the Lok Sabha seats in the state.“Irrespective of the situation in Manipur, we will win both…

Action has been taken against these officers after the report of an enquiry committee, an official statement said on Wednesday. The committee was formed to investigate the matter of non-opening of four gates of the ITO Yamuna barrage during floods. The government has suspended Irrigation Department’s Chief Engineer Sandeep Taneja, while orders have been issued to charge sheet Senior Engineer Tarun Aggarwal and Executive Engineer Manoj Kumar of the department. Along with this, SDO Mukesh Verma, posted at Yamuna Barrage, has been charge sheeted. Due to heavy rains, a significant surge in the Yamuna level was witnessed and due to…

Participating in the no-confidence motion discussion in the Lok Sabha, the MP from Bihar’s Pataliputra constituency, while attacking the JD-U members, said: “I know the people of JD-U. All are junior to me. Many of them worked under my leadership. What will their leader Lalan Singh tell? I will expose them all.”Attacking the leaders from Opposition bloc INDIA, the BJP leader said: “What can you do? … arrogant people, you can’t do anything. Nothing will happen to him (Prime Minister Narendra Modi). PM Modi gave world class facilities — railway stations, airports and highways and waterways, but did not do…