Falcao suffered anterior cruciate ligament damage during Monaco’s Coupe de France tie against Monts Or Azergues on January 22 and went under the knife soon after.The recovery time for a serious ACL injury is typically between six and ninemonths, which would rule Falcao out of the World Cup finals but the 28-year-old is refusing to give up his dream of being in Brazil just yet.

Giuseppe Rossi’s knee injury

Fiorentina forward Giuseppe Rossi’s injury is worse than expected after doctors discovered further damage to the ACL in his right knee. It was thought Rossi could return to action in 6 - 7 weeks after the ACL injury, but Fiorentina has said that further tests have discovered “a stress to the anterior cruciate ligament previously operated on.”

The 26-year-old is the top scorer in Serie A this season with 14 goals in 17 matches and has returned to the Italy team. He is expected to be a key part of Cesare Prandelli’s World Cup roster this year, although his participation is now in doubt.

Gabriel García Márquez Passes on

Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature in their language. But the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who has died at the age of 87 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease achieved just that, especially thanks to his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Since its publication in 1967, more than 25m copies of the book have been sold in Spanish and other languages. For at least a generation the book firmly stamped Latin American literature as the domain of ‘magical realism’.

Eastern Panorama Election Survey

Would you vote for the best candidate in your area, no matter from which party they are, or would you vote for a weaker candidate in order to let the best party win in National results?

Rizu Uz Zaman: Our nation of course. Nation comes first. If the base is strong, all the related fields will be supported well.

 

Abid Rahman: No matter what, I’ll vote “the person” worthy for it; be he/she from a weak or a small party.

Frency Maibangsa: I think this time I would choose party over candidate. I’m not in support of any political party, but I believe that for development change is necessary.

Spondan Bora: It’s a messy game here … we have already had quite a long reign of the Congress. We have seen its pros and cons. Now experimenting with a new party this time is all we can do. For that’s the only hope left - To experiment. It no more is limited to our expectations for we are always let down. We can only hope for the better by experimenting with a new team. So I definitely would vote in National interest.

Abishek Shiv Roy: i would vote for the candidate rather than the party.