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New Delhi: The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on Wednesday hailed the inclusion of Shooting in the final Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) medal tally.

Mumbai: Football Sports Development Limited today confirmed the Hero Indian Super League 2019-20 semi-final line-ups and fixture list to be played over two legs. Defending champions Bengaluru face ATK and 2019-20 season’s League winners Goa play Chennaiyin for a spot in the Hero ISL final, scheduled on Saturday, March 14.

Bhubaneswar: Gujarat swimmer Kalyani Saxena completed a unique personal milestone here at the Khelo India University Games on Wednesday, winning her 50th medal at the national level.

Bhubaneswar: Sanket Mahadev Sargar from Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Prashant Suresh Koli from Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon broke national records to clinch gold and silver respectively in the men’s 55kg weightlifting event at the Khelo India University Games(KIUG) here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Top seed Dev V Javia overpowered third seed Chirag Duhan 6-2, 6-1 to win the boys singles title while Vaishnavi Adkar defeated Sanjana Sirimalla 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 to emerge victorious in the girls section at the Roland-Garros Junior Wild Card Series here at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association on Wednesday.

During his one-and-a-half day’s stay in India, President Donald Trump successfully persuaded a cash-strapped and recession-hit India into signing defence contracts worth $3 billion. Never mind that India’s trade deficit with the USA stood at an astronomical $23,255.9 million by 2019 end. What is obvious is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan of “Make in India” does not apply to the defence sector. Here, the policy is “Make in USA, buy and use in India.”

Magnificent pageantry, super optics and perfect platitudes. The much-trumpeted POTUS visit to India produced all this, but very little beyond. Of course, it generated a lot of hot air, creating a bit of ‘western disturbance’ which, however, did not induce any rain.

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must be channelling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political dilemmas in Israel’s history.

The red-baiting of Sen. Bernie Sanders has been stepped up as we near the date of the important South Carolina primary election on February 29. “Liberal” pundits have accused him of everything from supporting “Marxist dictators” like Fidel Castro to singing the praises of chandeliers installed in the Moscow subways by the communist dictators of old. “You don’t ever talk about the wonderful chandeliers in the Moscow subways when you have Stalin killing 30 million of his own people,” Joe Scarborough declared on Morning Joe today. “With his praise of dictators, who does Bernie remind you of?” Joe’s wife, Mika Brzezinski, then asked.

The India-US Joint Statement of February 25 said that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and USA President Donald Trump vowed to strengthen their Global Strategic Partnership by deepening defence and security cooperation, through maritime and space domain exercises, sharing information, exchanging military liaison and so on. Focus was given to make Indo-Pacific region a free, open, inclusive and peaceful area.