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New Delhi: India's only World Cup-winning captain Ajit Pal Singh feels that winning start is crucial for Indian hockey team at Tokyo Olympics as it will help them gain confidence and momentum.

The idea of an alternate front has emerged once again after the meeting held at the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar's residence recently. Why is the idea gaining ground though there are three more years for the next General elections? Some opposition leaders believe that non-BJP parties should join hands without waiting for Congress to take the initiative. Pawar was categorical that any new alliance will include Congress to fight the BJP and added such a collation should have collective leadership.

The recent action taken by Twitter against Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account has rekindled debate on the company’s power to lock or suspend a user’s account.

The French far-right party National Rally led by Le Pen, who is a front-runner in the opinion polls for the presidential elections next year, suffered a major jolt in the regional elections held on Sunday when NR failed to win even a single region out of thirteen in which polling took place. Similar was the fate of President Macron’s party En Marche which could not make any mark.

On the Doctors Day the 1st July it would be appropriate to pay homage to those who sacrificed their lives to save the mankind from the catastrophic damage of the COVID-19. In addition to taking care of the sick in the hospitals, risking their lives, the health professionals continued to be engaged in the research work on the SARS COV -2 virus which has been mutating very fast and produced new variants of concern. This put forth serious challenge.

For want of a better description, they’re the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA opposition’. The goal is to transform to the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA ruling alliance’. They have to corner 273 Lok Sabha seats in 2024, what a bright old spark, called a ‘journalist’, says is ‘half of half’ of the total Lok Sabha, the tipping point to flip Narendra Modi off the scales.

Refusal of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to keep his promises made to Chirag Paswan, son of late Ram Vilas Paswan and insulting him in full public view at the insistence of the Nitish Kumar and a section of Bihar BJP leaders is leading to a massive churning in the state politics. Possibilities of fall of the NDA government in Bihar headed by Nitish Kumar is also not being ruled out.

With announcement of some new measures to mitigate the destruction caused by the second wave of COVID-19, the size of the assurance for small businesses including the MSMEs and needy households till date has swelled to Rs 6.3 lakh crore, which is indeed an impressive figure, a treat for the ears, but cannot provide the much desired relief and stimulus to the devastated economy.

New Delhi: For forward Udita, a handball player who switched to Hockey only in 2016, getting selected in the 16-member Indian Women's Hockey Tokyo Olympic squad is a dream come true. Now she along with team mates is all geared up to perform well in the Games.

New Delhi: Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat, shot to glory and gold as she claimed 25M Pistol title piping Rio Olympic winner Anna Korakaki (Greece) to earn India the first yellow medal in the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Osijek, Croatia on Monday.