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New Delhi: Overcoming several odds 17-year old Jr women's hockey team forward Mumtaz Khan has become one of the brightest prospects for the country after putting in impressive performances in the last couple of years.

New Delhi: Ace striker and former captain Bhaichung Bhutia is of the view that a successful striker needs to have something extra in him to make him special in the team.

New Delhi: Bengaluru based Akhil Rabindra who last year became the only Asian to make it to the AMR Driver Academy, is among 12 elite drivers from around the world to be retained by the prestigious Aston Martin Racing (AMR) Driver Academy for the 2020 season.

New Delhi: Former hockey captain Sardar Singh, cricketer Virender Sehwag, 2016 Rio Paralympics silver medalist Deepa Malik, eminent sports journalists Neeru Bhatia and Alok Sinha are among the members of the selection committee formed by the Sports Ministry for the national sports awards his year.

Donald Trump’s proposal to postpone the 2020 election is nothing less than the opening act of a coup. The aim is not to actually delay the vote, as only Congress has that authority. Rather, this move is aimed at undermining confidence in the legitimacy of the results should Trump lose on November 3rd and, further, to sabotage efforts to expand vote-by-mail. This is a full-frontal assault on American democracy which must be blocked by a landslide vote against the Republican Party on Election Day.

BHOPAL: Corona Virus while spreading at a fast speed in Madhya Pradesh is not sparing the VIPs. It is a matter of coincidence and serious concern that it has affected both the head of the government and the head of the BJP organisation. At the time when Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan was already in hospital, V. D. Sharma MP and president of the state BJP tested positive. Besides V. D. Sharma ministers Tulsiram Silawat and Ramkhelawan Patel and BJP organisational general secretary Suhas Bhagat have tested positive.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There has been no let-up in politics over covid 19 even though the dreaded virus is tightening its vice-like grip on the state.

The results of a nationwide economic survey in Pakistan, undertaken by IPSOS, Europe’s leading market research outfit indicate that the net job loss in the country due to pandemic, is feared to surpass substantially the estimate by the ministry of planning, worked out in April this year, between 12.3 million and 18.5 million people. The loss to economy is put anywhere between Rs2 trillion and Rs2.5 trillion in just three months, assuming “moderate to severe shocks from the coronavirus outbreak”. In monetary terms, the three-month wage loses will translate in to Rs.66 billion.

The pandemic and the lockdown are certainly causing an absolute shrinkage in the Gross Domestic Product of the Indian economy. But these tend to obscure something very serious that was happening even earlier, namely a real income decline for vast numbers of working people.

August 5 marks the completion of a year since the infamous steps were taken in parliament to nullify Article 370 of the constitution that provided for special status to the state of Jammu & Kashmir and the damaging legislation which dismembered the state and created two union territories – Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.