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MUMBAI, Aug 4: Sagar Sadvarte garnered a total of five points to top the under- 14 category at the Childrens Rapid Chess Tournament organis...

MUMBAI, Aug 4: Sagar Sadvarte garnered a total of five points to top the under- 14 category at the Childrens Rapid Chess Tournament organised by the Childrens Chess Academy, Dombivli. Amar Kamath and Poorva Varrier with five points each to top score in the under-12 and under-10 respectively. In the under-8 category National player Ketki Kulkarni with 5 .5 points shared the top spot with Sachin Bedekar.

scores (finals): U-14: Sagar Sadvarte (5); Ninad Konakonchi, Rohit Kulkarni, Arun Subramanian, Shreyas Zare (4); Subir Roy (3.5); Priyank Desai (3)

U-12: Amar Kamath (5); Chaitanya Vaidya, Vinay Kumar, Anit Kamat, Srinivas Satishkumar (4); Anand B Iyer (3.5); Rushikesh Varde (3)

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U10: Poorva Varrier (5); Vinay Kumar (4.5); Vrushali Kulkarni, Akshay Deshmukh, S Vishwanath, Siddharta Natu (4); Mughda Varrier (3.5)

U-8: Ketki Kulkarni, Sachin Bedekar (5.5); Akarsh Rai (5); Rohil Bhatt (4.5 ); Kunal Rao, Viviktesh Agwan, Priyank Singhvi (4).

banel breaks: Jeetendra Banel registered the first `break-to-finish’ (white slam) at the PGM District Ranking Carrom Tournament organised by the Pratapchandra Gupta Memorial Sports and Cultural Foundation at the Nagindas Khandwala College in Malad (W), today. Banel recorded a 25-21, 25-1 victory over Nitin Mudliar in the Singles first round.

In another first-round singles match, Sayyad Hussain came from behind to beat Shyam Pawar 12-25, 25-1, 25-3.

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Other results (1st round singles): Rajkumar Kanojia bt Rahul Gupta 25-0 25-6; Sanjay Barve bt Tarun Shah 25-0 25-14; Manu Baria bt Rashid Khan 25-1 25-2; Mangesh Waghmare bt Manoj Gohil 25-0 25-14; Suresh Shinde bt Shailesh Bhurkhe 11-25 25-9 25-19; Devji Sinha bt Kishor Parmar 25-3 25-17; Prafulla Anglekar bt Dushyant Rane 25-10 25-0; Ajay Kamble bt Ravi Singhania 25-0 25-4; Santosh Satpute bt Shrikant More 25-16 12-25 25-2; Satish Sonawane bt Shashikant Waghmare 25-16 25-2; Sayyad Hussain bt Shyam Pawar 12-25 25-1 25-3; Sachin Bansode bt kunal Choudhari 25-0 25-0; Prashant Tambe bt shekhar Manjrekar 9-25 25-1 25-0; Pradeep Jadhav bt Diwakar Sawant 0-25 25-14 25-12

India, US yet to find ‘landing ground’ for trade talks, our red lines must be respected: Jaishankar

India, US yet to find landing ground, our red lines must be respected: Jaishankar on talks

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Underlining that “there are things you can negotiate and there are things you can’t”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Sunday that India has been in talks with the US for “a trade understanding” where “our bottom lines and red lines are respected”. He reassured Quad is active, and India aims to go beyond defending interests and catch up in manufacturing.

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