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Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Former Spain international Luis Garcia will be the marquee player of Atletico de Kolkata in the upcoming Indian Super League (ISL), the franchise announced Monday. Garcia will team up with compatriot and ex-Getafe midfielder Borja Fernandez, who will be the second foreigner in the ranks of the club which is partly owned by La Liga champions Atletico Madrid. The 36-year-old attacking midfielder, who had two stints with Atletico Madrid besides plying his trade for another Spanish giant Bercelona and Premier League club Liverpool, had announced his retirement in January. He had his best years with Liverpool, winning the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the FA Cup.

Dubai, July 7 (IANS) The 46 Indian nurses rescued from a hospital in northern Iraq’s war zone have been offered job opportunities in India and Arabian Gulf countries by United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian entrepreneur Azad Moopen, a company statement said. “We will recruit these repatriated and devastated nurses on priority at Aster Medcity, Kochi, MIMS Hospitals at Calicut and Kottakkal, and DM WIMS Medical College Hospital in Wayanad,” Moopen, chairman of the Dubai-based Aster DM Healthcare, said in a statement.

Gurgaon, July 6 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader O.P. Dhankar on Sunday justified his controversial statement saying the party would get girls from Bihar to ensure that men in Haryana can get married. If anyone has been hurt, they need to revisit my statement,” said Dhankar. It is my concern that there are illegal marriages being carried out here. He said that there must be more focus on this issue of illegal marriages, and added that the relations must be formed on the basis of respect.

Kolkata, July 6 (ANI): Opposition parties have attacked the Trinamool Congress Government in West Bengal over the gruesome murder of a college student in North 24 Parganas. There is total absence of law and order as police is acting as a tool of Trinamool Congress,” Samik Bhattacharya, BJP leader said. Standing up against criminal activities in his area cost a second year college student his life, forcing enraged locals to stage vociferous protests and block roads and rail lines. Twenty-year-old Sourav Choudhury was reportedly abducted by some assailants on Friday night and later hacked to death.

Patna, July 6 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday defended party leader O P Dhankar after the latter made a controversial statement saying the party would get girls from Bihar to ensure that men in Haryana can get married. “I had a word with him (Dhankar). Media has quoted him out of context,” said Sushil Modi. “He (Dhankar) has said that this buying and selling of girls will be stopped and proper marriages will be carried out.

Kanpur, July 6 (ANI): Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal on Sunday warned that the BJP-led NDA Government’s move to bring consummable food items such as onions and potatoes under Essential Commodities Act and empowering officials would further accentuate corrupt practices. “Now they have included onions and potatoes under Essential Commodities Act, but they have no idea that with this step which increases the power in the hands of officials, they will only allow corruption to jump even further,” he said. He also hoped that the government will take remedial measures in order to stave off the price rise which is pressing hard on common man’s pocket. Their slogan during elections was to bring an end to price rise.

Moradabad, July 6 (ANI): A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation visited Moradabad jail on Sunday to meet their party workers who were arrested after the Kanth violence. BJP Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Suresh Khanna criticized the inhuman behavior of the local police with the BJP workers saying that they were partial in illegally removing the mic from the temple which led to the violence.

FIFA has warned Nigeria about possible suspension after a regional court ordered the sacking of the country’s football association and the appointment of a new administrator to run the game in the populous west African nation. Nigeria’s government has been set a deadline of Tuesday to restore the leadership of the Nigerian Football Federation to their position or the country could be suspended from playing in international competitions. “FIFA has learnt from various sources that the Nigerian Football Federation has been served with court processes and that consequently an order restraining the President of the NFF, his Executive Committee members and the NFF Congress from running the affairs of Nigerian football has been granted by a High Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” said a FIFA statement.

NewDelhi, July 5 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today said that all parties have agreed to cooperate with the government during the upcoming Budget Session. The government has agreed for discussions, as it wants to take everybody onboard in all decisions,” said Mahajan after the all party meet. She asserted that the main focus of Budget Session will be on the Rail Budget and General Budget, which will be presented before the parliament. The issue of whether there should be a Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha was expected to be discussed during the meeting.