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Hungary: The Indian men’s team scored yet another thumping victory over Iran by a massive 3.5-0.5 points to stake its claim for the gold medal in the open section of the 45th Chess Olympiad on Thursday. The Indian men took their tally to 16 points out of a possible 16. World number four Arjun Erigaisi started the rampage with his black pieces and crashed through the defenses of Bardiya Daneshwar who proved no match against a highly skilled display by the Indian. Following Arjun’s win, World Championship challenger D Gukesh put it across Parham Maghsoodloo with black pieces, swindling the…

Chennai: Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the first ever cricketer in history to have scored 20-plus fifty plus scores along with 30-plus five wicket hauls in the longest format of the game. He is thus the first cricketer in the 147-year history of Test cricket to achieve the feat. Ashwin reached another great height as an all-rounder during the first Test against Bangladesh at his home stadium in Chennai on Thursday. After India was in a troublesome situation at 144/6, Ashwin started a fine counter-attack with Ravindra Jadeja, scoring 102* in 112 balls, with 10 fours and two sixes. His…

Kolkata: The junior doctors of Bengal called off their massive protest over the rape-murder of a colleague at a Kolkata hospital and said they will join work from Saturday. But there was a caveat – they said they will not join OPD services or attend elected operations. These would be resumed once they are assured of the state government’s commitment to the safety issue, they said. The announcement came after the state had accepted most of their demands — and amid massive floods in south Bengal where health services have become a priority. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been on…

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has slammed rivals YSR Congress and his predecessor, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, over a lab report about animal fats in ghee used to make laddoos offered as prasadam, or devotional offerings, at the temple town of Tirupati. A July 17 report from the Centre of Analysis and Learning in Livestock and Food, or CALF, lab at the centre-run National Dairy Development Board in Gujarat, released Wednesday, said it found animal fat in ghee used to make the famous Tirupati laddoos when the YSRCP was in power. The report indicated the ghee contained…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: A strong call to action has been issued by the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, asking the society to change its perspective on the girl child. The Church emphasized the need for cultural transformation in the way that girls and women are treated in its pastoral bulletin Renovacao. Fr. Aleixo Menezes’ editorial highlights the difficulties girls encounter and provides a solution by introducing the idea of “synodality,” which is defined as “walking together.” Despite numerous laws and measures, the editorial criticizes the state of affairs for girls in India today. It calls the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: A division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice M. S. Karnik & Justice Valmiki Menezes, by a brief order dated 18.9.2024, recorded the statement of the Panchayat of Ella, Old Goa, that it would not grant an occupation certificate to the disputed Old Goa bungalow on Survey No.4/1 without leave of the Court. The Court was hearing a PIL Writ Petition filed by the Goa Foundation and the Goa Heritage Action Group (GHAG) pleading for removal of the bungalow before the Exposition of the remains of St Francis Xavier this November. The PIL concerns the unprecedented…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that some South Indian states and political parties even today do not promote the Hindi language and are not even interested in speaking and understanding Hindi. Chief Minister was addressing the ‘Swarna Mahotsava’ of Gomantak Rashtrabhasha Vidyapeeth, Margao “South Indian states and political parties even today do not promote the Hindi language and are not even interested in speaking and understanding Hindi,” said Sawant. He also said that along with Hindi, all regional languages should be promoted. “Some regional political parties in South India still do not accept Hindi as the national language…