| Four Indians bag gold at International Wrestling tournament in Italy |
Four Indian grapplers have struck gold at the International Wrestling tournament in Sassari City, Italy. They finished on top in their respective weight categories in Men's Freestyle.
Yogeshwar Dutt bagged the yellow metal in 65kg division, while Praveen Rana claimed the gold in 70kg category. According to the information received in New Delhi, Amit Kumar, 57kg, and Narsingh Yadav, 74kg, also finished on the top of the podium in their categories. After World Wrestling Federation introduced variations in the weight categories at the end of year 2013, Yogeshwar chose to compete in 65kg category, climbing up from 60kg division, in which he won the bronze medal in the 2012 London Olympics. Since jumping up the weight category, Yogeshwar has won gold in all four tournaments he has taken part so far. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
Comments
Post a Comment