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“Now that we know what else we are good at, we need to give them a lot of encouragement,” he said.

At the same time, India is building further on sports that traditionally bring medals. Though both the men’s and women’s kabaddi teams did not win golds in two of the biggest upsets at the Games, boxing, badminton, and field events are expected to yield dividends in addition to the already rich hauls from shooting (nine medals) and wrestling (three medals).

India’s tally of total medals at the 2018 Asian Games stands at 25 medals in in six days -- six gold, five silver and 14 bronze medals at the rate of 1 gold, 0.8 silver and 2.3 bronze medals per day.

This edition of the Games will go on for nine more days, till September 2, 2018, and if the rate holds for the duration of the Games, that would mean India’s 570-member contingent would end up with 15 golds, 13 silvers and 33 bronzes, according to a simple back-of-the-book calculation.

This would matching the record of 15 gold medals won at the very first edition of the Asian Games in New Delhi 67 years ago. India’s next best performance was at Guangzhou in 2010 – 14 golds, 17 silvers and 34 bronze medals -- two years after shooter Abhinav Bindra’s breakthrough Gold at the Beijing Olympics.

Rifle shooter Joydeep Karmakar, who finished fourth at the 2012 London Olympics, said one big difference is that former top athletes are now giving back to the sport.

“Athletes in our era hardly had any scientific coaching but now we can see many giving back to the system as coaches. They have been there, seen it, done it. They’re telling today’s athletes what mistakes not to make. There are genuine coaches who are grooming this teenage invasions,” Karmakar said.

“The young brigade is also fearless and they know how to ignore negativity.” follow norms. “We suspect more establishments will make it to the list of those that are violating firesafety rules,” said the officer.

Gurbaxish Singh, president, Hotel and Restaurant Association - Western India (HRAWI), said it is a matter of concern that eateries continue to flout firesafety norms. “It must be considered as a necessity by businesses, otherwise patrons are going to walk away,” said Singh, adding that one of the reasons why restaurants flout rules is “lack of awareness”. sion made by the Bengal government and the state election commission that the discipline, mandated by the Constitution and enforced by the enabling state law on the subject, must be maintained.

“Having regard to the seriousness of the allegations and bearing in mind the fact that these proceedings were pending, we are of the view that it would be necessary to exercise the power under Article 142 of the Constitution to extend the period of 30 days for the filing of election petitions in respect of the uncontested seats,” the court said. that instead of viewing it as part of a process, the government had an “episodic” approach to it. “This government has an event-centric perspective. Doklam is part of a process; he (Modi) sees it as an event. The truth is that the Chinese are still there. If we were in power, Doklam would not have happened,” Gandhi said at the IISS.

“On Pakistan too, the Modi government lacks a coherent strategy, but sees it as episodic. The problem is who do you talk to in Pakistan, which institution do you talk. They have institutions that hate us, promote terror in our country, we don’t want to talk to them.”

Gandhi cited the experience of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, whose initiatives with the civilian government in Islamabad were undermined by other institutions in the country, through events such as the Kargil intrusions. While expounding on the Modi government’s foreign policy, Gandhi took a swipe at the alleged domination of the foreign ministry by the Prime Minister’s Office, saying the “capable” minister, Sushma Swaraj, would have achieved something if she were allowed to work, instead of being confined to responding to visa requests on Twitter.

Gandhi told a gathering in the Grand Committee Room in Westminster that the Congress has succeeded in “completely dismantling” the idea that the Modi government is a success by highlighting what he called its “insane economic policies” such as demonetisation.

“There is a job crisis in India. China is creating 50,000 jobs in 24 hours, India is creating 450. These are not my figures but government of India data. The jobs will come from small and medium enterprises but the Modi government focuses only on some big businessmen,” he said.

According to him, Modi is “not allowing Indians to express themselves”, while the Congress wants to return the country to the “old India” of pre-2014, of social inclusion, when journalists and those holding differing views did not face threats to life and limb.

“You will feel the weight of a combined opposition in the coming assembly and general elections. Look at the arithmetic, in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, if the opposition come together, the BJP cannot even win five seats; and if they don’t do well in these states, they cannot win the election,” Gandhi said.

The event in Parliament was hosted by senior Labour MP Keith Vaz and attended by party MPS Virendra Sharma and Seema Malhotra. Gandhi also addressed students at the London School of Economics on Friday evening.