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New Delhi: A four member Indian women archery team accompanied by five officials is in Paris to prepare for securing the remaining two Tokyo Games berths when they compete in the final Olympic qualification tournament from June 17-20 in the French Capital.

New Delhi: A 7-member Swimming team, including Srihari Nataraj and Sajan Prakash will take part in the Belgrade Trophy 2021, a FINA-accredited Olympic Qualifying event, scheduled for 19th and 20th June.

On June 23 the combat with corona virus pandemic would be of 15 months old. The NaMo government has formally not announced the end of the lock down though the government agencies have adopted a generous attitude of neither proceeding against violations nor restraining the states from imposing their lock down. The economic activities ceased to be active. Even though government allowed resumption, most production units were still struggling to restart as they see no profit in production without the demand. The economy that was moving upwards at the rate of 8.26 percent in first year of the NaMo regime, slumped down to minus 7.30 per cent in April 2021 as the government statistics revealed. NaMo had gained the mandate on his promise to accelerate the growth rate to generate more jobs. In his seven years in power his solution has rendered 120 million without jobs. It does not include number of losers in the aftermath of demonetization.

After losing the historic battle of Bengal and Narendra Modi’s image of invincibility lying completely shattered on the streets of Kolkata, the Rajput warrior of Uttar Pradesh, the chief minister Yogi Adityanath, has launched a blistering attack on the two commanders of the Saffron brigade, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to make them bite the dust in the coming battle in Uttar Pradesh in 2022.

Since the past week, social media platforms have been abuzz with posts about how the Ministry of Home Affairs has acted upon the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, even though no rules have yet been framed.

Post the West Bengal election results, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders were lost sheep, stumped for not knowing what to do and what to say, used as they were to singing praise of dear leader Narendra Modi, so cued they were to raise Modi’s larger than life image to rarefied heights where, apart from fawning BJP leaders, there’s nobody else around. The disappointing West Bengal election results and the no-show in Kerala had left Modi’s underlings comatose, with the only tune playing ‘God save Modi’.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of providing free vaccine for all adults of India has certainly solved a cross section of the problems of vaccination in the country for which he has been praised and thanked even though these were his own creation. Nevertheless, the government would need to take follow-up actions in the right earnest to accomplish the target of vaccinating all within the stipulated time frame.

After the setback in Ecuador Presidential elections in April this year, the Leftist coalitions recorded clear victories against the rightwing combinations in Mexico and Peru imparting a big boost to the left forces in the other countries of Latin America who are bracing for elections in 2021 end and 2022.

The Congress leadership is engaged in damage control in Punjab with the political crisis threatening to go out of control. The high command is looking for a formula to calm down the tempers of the dissidents against the chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh. The Assembly elections are scheduled early next year. Punjab is one of the few Congress-ruled states and the Party would like to retain it . It is a border and a sensitive state which had seen violence in the past.

New Delhi: Olympian and former assistant coach Tushar Khandekar feels that Indian (men) hockey team has a realistic chance to have a podium finish at the Tokyo Games.