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New Delhi: Riding on Vandana Katariya's three goals India piped spirited South Africa 4-3 and completed their Pool A league assignments with two wins on Saturday and will face Australia in the Quarter-Finals of the Women's hockey competition of the Tokyo Olympics.

New Delhi: Indian hockey is at cross road. After 41 -years, India gets a chance to make it to the four of the Olympics men hockey as they take on Great Britain the quarter finals in Tokyo on Sunday.

India is a labour intensive nation with the largest diaspora in the world. According to a United Nations report, “Migration 2020 Highlights”, close to 18 million (1.8 crores) Indians live and work outside the country. Several independent investigative reports have highlighted the grave exploitation of Indian workers overseas.

Use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 respectively led to a situation where the common man was struck in dismay; even the military strategists of Japan could not imagine that such a powerful and devastating weapon had already been developed by the Americans and now being used on their population. The event is remembered around the globe by paying homage to the victims and pledging to work for complete nuclear disarmament so that no person on earth has to ever face such heinous crime.

Mamata Banerjee’s task to bring together the entire opposition on a common platform and evolve a unity model is more arduous and daunting than the challenges being faced by Rahul Gandhi.

Reopening schools after closure of about 16 months since the lockdown from March 24, 2020 is being felt necessary, but the fear of COVID-19 infection has made the government indecisive on reopening and parents hesitant about sending their children to schools, though we have seen in the first and second wave of COVID-19 that the children in general were successful in dealing with the virus. We now know much more about the infection in relation to children, and therefore, schools could be reopened with safety measures.

Despite improvements in daily vaccination numbers and the promise of increased supply, challenges persist in India’s vaccination drive. First, there is a sharp rural-urban disparity (which, to be sure, is narrowing) in per capita vaccination numbers, and second, there are intermittent “dry” days in some parts of the country when lack of supplies brings the vaccination process to a halt.

Amit Shah! If there’s a ring of authority to the name, it’s because ‘Shah’ spells ‘Amit’, like in the ‘Rishtey mei toh hum tumhare baap lagte hain, naam hai Shehanshah’, which is a ringtone that sounds like ‘The name is Bond, James Bond!’ But this is about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, whose successes double up as failures depending upon which side of the aisle an onlooker happens to be at a given point in time, at Amit Shah's side or on the other side.

Pegasus, the winged horse, is supposed to carry thunderbolts as per Greek mythology. It seems one of these bolts has struck the Modi government, which is in a real predicament over the use of the Israeli spyware to snoop on people in India. Whether such use was authorised or unauthorised remains a moot point right now.

New Delhi: Riding on Vandana Katariya's three goals India piped spirited South Africa 4-3 and completed their Pool A league assignments with two wins and kept their Quarter-Finals hopes alive in the Women's hockey competition of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.