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Hangzhou, Sep 30 (IANS) Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale defeated the Taiwan pair, the ninth-seeded Tsung-hao Huang and En-shuo Liang, 2-6, 6-3, 10-4 in the tennis mixed doubles final to win gold medal in the Asian Games, here on Saturday.After going down in the first set 2-6, the Indian duo mounted an impressive comeback, securing the second set and forcing the match into a decisive tie-breaker.In a one-hour and 14-minute contest, the Indian pair dominated the tie-breaker, ultimately winning it 10-4 and securing the gold medal.Bopanna secured his second medal at the Asian Games, having previously clinched the men’s doubles…

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Defending champion Vaidehi Chaudhari and Karnataka player SD Prajwal Dev will lead the exciting field in the singles main draw at the prestigious 28th Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship, set to begin on Monday at the DLTA Complex, here.The 23-year-old from Gujarat, Vaidehi has been impressive this year, winning two ITF titles which also includes her maiden ITF title that she won in Gwalior in January. Currently ranked fifth in India, Vaidehi will return to the capital city to defend her title. However, she is expected to face a strong challenge in the women’s singles…

Guwahati, Sep 30 (IANS) India’s ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin admitted that he did not think of being in the side’s 15-member squad for the upcoming Men’s ODI World Cup, adding that life can be full of surprises.On September 28, the last day of finalising World Cup squads, Ashwin replaced injured left-arm spinner Axar Patel in India’s final 15-member for the mega event on home soil. Ashwin, who made a comeback to the format in the recent 2-1 ODI series win against Australia, joins Virat Kohli as one of only two players in the squad who also featured in the 2011…

Hyderabad, Sep 30 (IANS) After making 54 off 50 balls on his return to competitive action in New Zealand’s warm-up match against Pakistan, Kane Williamson was pleased over how his right knee held up pretty well and added that achieving this wasn’t a reality over five months ago.There were question marks over Williamson’s participation in the event after rupturing the ACL in his right knee in March, while fielding in the opening match of IPL 2023 for Gujarat Titans, and had to undergo surgery on return to home.Since then, his rehab and recovery progressed in such a manner that he…

San Francisco, Sep 30 (IANS) Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube pages are the most delisted from Google Search when requested by European individuals using the “right to be forgotten” privacy law, a new report has shown.According to the cybersecurity firm Surfshark, about 100,000 Facebook, X, and YouTube pages have been delisted from Google using the “right to be forgotten”.The ”right to be forgotten” is a European Union (EU) privacy law that allows individuals to request the delisting of their personal information from online search results or remove data held by certain organisations.Over the last eight years, people requested Google…

While the strict terms and conditions by the IMF are being complied through difficult decisions by the caretaker government, which has been increasing prices of petroleum products, electricity and gas tariffs every fortnight, directly affecting the levels of inflation in the country and having damaging effects on lives of the locals, the broader intent is streamline domestic and external imbalances through policy anchoring.The inflation projections during September in Pakistan have been estimated to reach 31 per cent, making the country’s inflation rate the highest in Asia.This means that the direct effect of inflation through rising electricity and fuel prices in…

Shehbaz Sharif, who led the Pakistan Democratic Movement coalition government from April 2022 to August 2023 after ousting his predecessor Imran Khan from office in a no-confidence vote in Parliament, is now setting the platform for the return of his elder brother Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan through a heroic welcome and is acting as the balancing root and a connecting bridge between the country’s powerful military establishment and the Sharif family.The ambition behind this role is to ensure that Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan to win the next general elections and take control of the country’s federal power political house,…

The party’s top leadership along with its hardcore supporters have seen a major clampdown against their leader and the entire PTI large since the military establishment and the state decided to not spare anyone involved in the May 9 riots and vandalism.After Khan was arrested from outside the Islamabad High Court on May 9, PTI supporters and workers took to the streets in massive numbers.The outburst of angry PTI supporters and leadershi, resulted in incidents of riots and vandalism, attacks on GHQ (General Headquarters) Rawalpindi, the Core Commander’s Residence in Lahore and other military installations in major cities.It was then…

But even with its deep roots into power politics in Sindh province, along with a strong influence in Balochistan and the federal governments, the PPP has been forced to revisit its strategy and opt for political alliances to come into power.The party is desperate to win the next general elections and form the government in the federal capital. But it seems that there are no clear winners among the top political players at the moment.PPP co-chairperson and former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has expressed serious reservations over the backdoor engagements between the country’s military establishment and the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz…

During election campaigns, mentioning of India through the lens of Kashmir has remained a part of every political party’s election manifesto. And even after decades, the India mention for political gains remains unchanged.The previous coalition government under the premiership of Shehbaz Sharif has been under severe criticism for its policies and what locals term as succumbing to the IMF and pushing the masses towards catastrophic inflation that has plunged the lives of every household into severe financial crisis.And while the political parties struggle to formulate a political narrative to reach out to their voters for votes, the Indian mention is…