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Victory India’s Surendra Singh has won three gold medals in the third round of Asian Athletic meet. He won this third gold medal in men’s 3000 meter race while another Indian athlete Bibin Mathew won a bronze medal for his country from the 400 meter race. Surendra took the time of 8.07.22 to win the race. He was emerged victorious even in the third round of the series. With three gold medals he has won US$4500. India’s Ravinder Singh and Sandeep Kumar won the silver and bronze medals in the competition while Ailem Singh and Aswal Kashinath remained at the fourth and fifth position. With it India swept the competition. India’s Bibin Methew won the second gold medal for his country by defeating China’s Liu.Methew. He had won first two rounds also. In the third round he and Liu took equal time to finish the race and the winner was decided by photo finish. India’s Shekh Murtaza won the bronze medal in the same competition. In the third round India won three gold, four silver and seven bronze medals, though none of the Indian athletes could qualify for the world championship that will be held in Berlin from August 15 to August 23.In the first round India had won one gold, four silver and four bronze medals while in the second round they had won 2 gold, three silver and four bronze medals. In women’s discus throw Krishna Punia and Seena Auntil remained at the third and fourth position. Asian champion Chin Song Aimen won the gold. In men’s discuss throw Om Prakash remained at the second position. In the 400 relay-race India won the silver medal.

Rathore Escapes India’s Olympic medal winner Rajyawardhan Singh Rathod had a narrow escape. his car met with an accident 90 kilometers away from the Pink city Jaipur on the Jaipur-Delhi road. His car was hit by a truck from behind. He was traveling along with his family when the incident happened. They all escaped unhurt.

Jatendra’s Medal Hopes  Though Olympic medalist Jatendra Kumar has failed to win any competition after changing his weight category but he has hoped that he will win a medal in the Ashian Championship that will be held in China from 5 to 14 June. Now he has taken the place of Akhil Kumar while Akhil has joined the 57 kg weigh category. After Olympic it is his biggest tournament and he is working very hard. Under the guidance of Coach Gurbax Singh and Jaidev, he is learning the boxing tactics of 54 kg weight category. It is being expected that Kazakhstan pugilists will be the biggest hurdles in his medal quest. In the last Asian Championship that was held in Mongolia he had won the bronze medal in the flyweight category and this time he is expecting to win a medal in the new weight category. This championship is very important as for as the World Championship is concerned. This championship will be held in Italy. Akhil Kumar is not taking part in the Asian Championship because of fitness problems so Jatendra has taken his position.

Attacks Racial attacks on those people of Asian and African origin are a natural phenomenon, which go to the western countries in search of better job options. But now racists have started to attack not the job seekers but even the students who go to Australia and United States to get higher education. In recent times many students have fallen prey to the racial attacks even in the campuses of some famous universities of America. Almost half a dozen students have lost their lives in the racist attacks in recent months. Indian students are undergoing similar situation in Australia and its state Victoria also. Attacks on the Indian students in Australia had started very early but most of the students preferred not to go to the police and stay calm. If some students dared to get the matters reported in the police stations, the administration tried to ignore the sensitivity of the matter by terming those attacks as the incidents of loot instead of terming them as the racial attacks. Australian state and centre government always tried to keep such kind of incident under cover to save billions of dollars income that they earn from the foreigner students.

Economy Presently more than four laks (400000) foreigner students are getting education in various Australian educational institutions. According to the numbers, Indian students are at number two after the Chinese students. Almost one lakh Indian students are getting education in Australia and half of them are from the northern state of Punjab. Australia earns almost $200 million from the Indian students as educational fees.  Except it Indians’ contribution in the economic progress of Australia is uncountable. Last week’s incidents have created fear not in the minds of the Indian students studying in Australia and their parents but have also alerted all the state and centre government of India. Centre government had summoned Australian high commissioner in the office of foreign affairs ministry and made him to understand the sensitivity of the matter. Indian high commissioner in Australia, Sujata Mehta went to hospital personally to meet the victims of the racial attacks and also appealed to the Australian government to do its constitutional duty for the protection of the foreigners.

Steps In the initial stages the spokes persons of Victoria state government and central government declined to accept these attacks on the Indian students as racial attacks but when media exposed the truth with facts, the Australian Prime Minister, foreign minister and education minister accepted the truth. Some of the racist attackers were arrested and cases of intentional murder were filed against them. Now it has come to light that more than twenty incidents had happened only in Sydney where Indian students were attacked by the racists. In this grim situation India government should come forward to assure the security of the Indians who are in Australia and other western countries studying or earning. Indian students should be stopped from going to Australia till Australian governments takes appropriate steps to assure the safety of the India students. On the other hand Australian government should take immediate steps to arrest the culprits and bring them to justice. Indian students should be treated as the students of other countries are treated in Australia. In recent years Australia has emerged as the educational hub which is a very big achievement but if Australian government does not take appropriate steps then nobody can stop Australia from getting the tag of a racist country.