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Looking to break the 16-year-old Asian Games 'gold' jinx, Indian men's hockey team coach Terry Walsh said that the current lot of players have the "self belief" to come up trumps in the upcoming quadrennial event in Incheon, South Korea.
Walsh said unlike the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the Sardar Singh-led side has the ability to turn the 2010 Guangzhou bronze into a gold at the Asian Games to be held from September 19 to October 4.

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Sikhs in Aberdeen teamed up with local oil and gas workers over the Xmas period to provide food to the region’s less fortunate.

બીજા વિશ્વ યુદ્ધ પહેલાની આ વાત છે.  અહલ્યાબાઈ વારંવાર પડોશણોને કહેતી, ‘ઘરમાં વહુ આવશે એટલે હું તો ગામડે જઈને રહીશ. આજકાલની વહુઓને આપણે ક્યાં નથી ઓળખતા? મિજાજ તો જાણે સોળ ખાંડીનો! અને ઘરમાં ઘરડા જાણે એને ખીલી જેવા ખટકે! આપણે એવી રીતે ઘરમાં રહીને જીવવું નથી. મારે તો બાવડાં સલામત છે. તે ગામડામાં પડી રહીશ ને બે રોટલા ઘડી ખાઈશ.’

The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust last month received £200,000 – the largest donation so far – towards the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, London.

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after her victory in the US Open mixed doubles last week. 

For much of the time the last Labour Government was in power, the idea that the only way to get on in life was to go to university dominated discussions of what young people should do when they leave school. But while a university degree can be of immense value for some people, it is not the only option.

India's agonising wait to return to the World Group continued as the hosts lost 2-3 to Serbia in the rain-hit playoff tie after Yuki Bhambri surrendered tamely in the decisive fifth rubber against Filip Karjinovic in Bangalore on Monday.