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Ludhiana: Shuttler Dhruv Kapila and his partner Tanisha Crastor won the silver medal in the mixed doubles category in the Syed Modi Super 300 International Tournament , which concluded in Lucknow on Sunday. The duo lost the final to the Thailand pair, Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Supissara Paewsampra, 18-21, 21-14, 21-8. Dhruv and Tanisha reached the finals after defeating China 21-16 and 21-15 in the semi finals. In September, Dhruv had to walk out of the Vietnam Open Badminton Tournament, 2024 due to ill health. Dhruv and Tanisha reached the semi finals in that tournament too but could not play as Dhruv had high fever and body ache. He was rushed back to India. His father Gagan Kapila said, “Dhruv and Tanisha played well to reach the finals of the tournament. Though they tried to do their best, the finals match was tough. The pair won a silver for the country and we are delighted about this.” Prior to this, Dhruv and Tanisha Crasto had won the 85th Senior National Badminton Championship organised in Guwahati in Dec 2023. Earlier, in the Odisha Masters 2023, held from Dec 12 to Dec 17, 2023, the duo won a gold medal. Dhruv’s achievements include silver in the Asian Games, 2023, held in Hangzhou. Before that, he won the prestigious Thomas Cup in 2022. Dhurv played with his partner, Krishna P G in the men’s doubles in the tournament. The same year, Dhruv and his partner Arjun M R won the India Maharashtra International Challenge by defeating Thailand in finals. We also published the following articles recently Happy to be back in Lucknow for Syed Modi tournament PV Sindhu, the two-time Olympic medalist, aims to regain her form at the Syed Modi India International Badminton Championship in Lucknow after setbacks at the Paris Olympics and China Masters. She acknowledges the importance of the event for upcoming talent and focuses on correcting her mistakes to prepare for upcoming tournaments like the World Championships and others in 2024. Bennett University hosts India's first-ever FIP international padel tournament Bennett University hosted India's first international padel tournament, the FIP Promotion India Padel Open, from November 21 to 24. The event showcased the dominance of Spanish players, with Ainize Santamaria Landa, Aitana Solan Domenech, Edu Altimires Ros, and Pol Alsina clinching titles. DSMNRUs visually impaired cricketers play in natl tournaments Visually impaired students from Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University showcased incredible determination in the national-level TS Mishra blind cricket tournament, where the UP team emerged as runners-up. Despite financial and physical hurdles, their hard work and reliance on sound for gameplay have made them key players, earning recognition and support from their university.
Australia's House of Representatives passes bill banning children younger than age 16 from social mediaFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department's operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden's commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump's statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump's rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl's mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden's decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. _______ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.Manufacturing sector's struggle for revival
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New Delhi, Dec 7: With a 100-day TB elimination campaign starting on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India was fighting the disease in a multi-pronged manner with double support for patients, “jan bhagidari”, newer drugs, use of technology, and better diagnostic tools. In a post on X, Modi said, “Our fight against TB just got stronger! Powered by a collective spirit to defeat TB, a special 100-day campaign is starting today with a focus on high-burden TB districts.” India is fighting TB in a multi-pronged manner with doubling support to patients, “jan bhagidari”, newer drugs, use of technology, and better diagnostic tools, he added. “Let us all come together and do our bit to eliminate TB,” he said. In another post, Modi shared Union Health Minister JP Nadda’s article on the fight against TB, saying it gave an insightful picture of the steps “we are continuously taking to make India TB-free”. Nadda inaugurated a nationwide campaign in Haryana’s Panchkula to reduce TB cases and mortality due to it. The 100-day TB elimination campaign will be implemented in 347 districts of 33 states where the prevalence of the disease is higher. The campaign is focused on enhancing detection, reducing diagnostic delays and improving treatment outcomes.
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Saskatchewan NDP MLA Jared Clarke tore into Premier Scott Moe during a speech in the legislature on Tuesday, criticizing Moe's actions during the recent provincial election campaign and demanding an apology for a proposed policy Clarke believes was targeted at his children. "[The Saskatchewan Party's] legacy is attacking vulnerable kids. Prove me wrong," Clarke said. Clarke's speech during question period Tuesday lasted roughly 13 minutes, much of it spent taking Moe to task for a policy the Saskatchewan Party leader touted during the campaign as his "first order of business" if re-elected . Moe said his government would establish a policy restricting students' use of change rooms in schools to their sex assigned at birth. Throughout the announcement Moe frequently used the term "biological boys," which can be used to imply that transgender people are still their assigned sex at birth, despite their identity. WATCH | Sask. MLA says premier 'put a target on the back' of his trans kids with proposed change room policy: Sask. MLA says premier 'put a target on the back' of his trans kids with proposed change room policy 9 minutes ago Duration 4:37 Sask. NDP MLA Jared Clarke criticized Premier Scott Moe and demanded an apology for a proposed policy that would restrict students' use of changerooms in the province's schools to their sex assigned at birth. Clarke's transgender children were singled out in a newspaper story about the policy. The policy was not part of the party's election platform, which had been released just days before Moe's announcement. It was immediately flagged by experts and families who said it would put transgender children at risk . Before Moe announced the policy, news outlet the Western Standard published a story featuring a parent saying their daughter had been uncomfortable in a change room with two other students who identified as female, but were assigned male at birth, at a south Saskatchewan school. Sask. Party's '1st order of business' to be gendered change room policy in schools: Scott Moe Premier Scott Moe unveils new, smaller Sask. cabinet and says change room policy no longer 1st priority In his comments Tuesday, Clarke confirmed that the two children referenced in the Western Standard story were his. "The premier put a target on the back of my two 12-year-old kids," Clarke said. In response to a request for comment on Clarke's speech, a government spokesperson provided a statement. "The Minister of Education and then the Premier commented on this matter in response to questions from the media," it said. "At no point did they identify any students. The Premier and his campaign consistently stated that, 'the identity of individual minors should never be part of any political debate.'" Gendered change room policy in Sask. schools would put trans kids at risk, say advocates, families Teachers were sent degrading messages after Sask. Party promised change room ban: STF Clarke said his children's photos were circulated on social media and his family was targeted by hateful comments. The Saskatchewan Teachers Federation says teachers received degrading messages in response to the news in the following days . Clarke described the proposed policy as part of the premier's "legacy" and demanded an apology from Moe. "Transgender kids are not scary. Transgender people are not scary. They are not people that we should be afraid of. They are people who deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and love," he said. Moe backed off the policy after securing another majority government , saying it would be part of discussions held between elected school boards and Minister of Education Everett Hindley.