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New Delhi: Hockey India on Monday joined 38 other National Associations from around the world as a member of the World Masters Hockey (WMH).

Gurugram: Armed with the confidence of a long-awaited win last week, Vani Kapoor returns for the sixth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour this week at ITC’s Classic Golf & Country Club.

New Delhi: Asian Games champion Amit Panghal (52kg) defeated Carlo Paalam of Philippines 4-1 to move into the semi-finals of the Asian/Oceanian Olympic Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan todayand in the process secured the sixth quota for India at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Goa: Chennaiyin and ATK will be gunning for their third title in the Hero Indian Super League and nobody will grudge them of a place in Sunday’s final in Goa.

Srinagar: Kolkata glamour club East Bengal overcame a nine-man Real Kashmir by a solitary goal In a crucial encounter of the Hero I-League played at the TRC ground in Srinagar on Monday.

New Delhi: Six -time world champion Mary Kom (51kg) chalked out a flawless 5-0 win over Irish Magno of Philippines to enter the semi-finals of the Asian/Oceanian Olympic Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan on Monday and that enabled her to book her ticket for the Tokyo Olympics.

The US attempt to hammer a peace deal with the Taliban has proved to be a non-starter as far as to bring peace and stability in the war ravaged Afghanistan. The deal with Taliban has no meaning unless a similar bipartite agreement is signed between the militant organization and the Afghan government. The drama in Doha just followed US President’s visit to India. President Donald Trump is under compulsion in his election year. He wants to show to the American electorate that he can broker a peace in Afghanistan and at the same time can contain Beijing’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific.

Concerted efforts are being made to protect image the Prime Minister Narendra Modi from being further maligned in the Delhi massacre. To accomplish their mission some intellectuals and political analysts have been trying to unearth a deep divide between Modi and his protégé, the home minister Amit Shah. Instead of putting the blame they are out for the head of Shah.

Having secured parliamentary approval for some of the key items on the RSS/BJP’s pro-Hindu agenda such as depriving Kashmir of its special status and enacting citizenship laws based on religion, the saffron dispensation is currently facing only two major hurdles on its forward march.

It is interesting to note that the international arms trade in the south and south-east asian regions is fast getting narrowed down between two major suppliers, the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Russia, traditionally a major player, is steadily losing ground to the two more aggressive arms traders — the US and China. For the US, raising arms exports to India appears to be more important than striking a bilateral trade deal between the two countries. This became amply clear during the recent two-day visit of India by President Donald Trump. At the very beginning of his trip, Trump announced in Ahmedabad that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would sign off on a $3.5 billion arms deal, which would see the sale of 24 Sikorsky MH-60R Sea Hawk multi-role helicopters for the Indian Navy and six Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters for the Indian Army. However, the two leaders failed to agree to an anticipated general trade deal.