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Hyderabad: Rituparna Das stunned World No. 14 Beiwen Zhang as the Pune 7 Aces trounced the Awadhe Warriors 4-1 to reach the semi-finals at the Star Sports Premier Badminton League at the GMC Balayogi Indoor Stadium here in Hyderabad today.

Hyderabad: Defending champions Bengaluru Raptors will aim to put up a commanding performance when they take on the bottom-placed Mumbai Rockets in their attempt to make the semifinals of Star Sports Premier Badminton League at the GMC Balayogi Sats Indoor Stadium here in Hyderabad in the season's final double header tomorrow.

New Delhi: Jinson Johnson, who holds the national record in 800m and 1500m, expressed that the upcoming Khelo India University Games will be a big boost for the young sportspersons in the country.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Monday named 24-member squad for the upcoming matches against World No.1 Belgium in the FIH Pro League to be held on 8 and 9 February at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium, Bhubaneswar.

New Delhi: World Champions P.V.Sindhu (Badminton) and M.C.Marykom (Boxing) are among the five women athletes shortlisted by the BBC for their inaugural “BBC Sports Woman of the Year award.

Ahead of the contest to find Jeremy Corbyn’s successor in Britain’s main opposition party, some seniors leaders have come out stressing that electability doesn’t mean Labour becoming ‘more Tory’ and strive to simply find fault with the leftwing policies of Corbyn. These leaders also argue that the leadership candidates who have thrown their hats in the ring must realise there’s no evidence that Labour lost the election because of its leftwing policies.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Shocking indifference and callous neglect – this has been Kerala’s lot in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, February 1,2020.

Nothing could explain better the loss of sense of wisdom and rationality of the BJP leaders and its rank and file and their turning into a band of insensitive mercenaries than the slander inflicted by the general secretary of Bengal, Sayantan Basu. Intensity of his hatred towards the Muslim protestor could be gauged from his caustic observation towards the 56-year-old woman protester Sameeda Khatoon, who died at ‘Kolkata’s Shaheen Bagh’ at Park Circus Maidan on Saturday, where hundreds of women and children have been staging demonstration against CAA, NRC and NPR for last one month.

When the BJP raises the communal temperature, it is a sign of the party realizing that it is in trouble. Since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is being seen as the frontrunner in the Delhi assembly elections, it is not surprising that the BJP has decided to pull out all the stops where its communal rant is concerned.

The union home minister Ameet Shah touched hornet’s nest through his amendment to the Citizens’ Act. The tornado of protests began to sweep across entire country but only after his revelation of his proposed move afoot to prepare National Citizen Register. The amendment to the Citizens’ act was not necessary as the union home ministry alone was equipped with the authority to grant, disallow or even withdraw citizenship. The amendment did not confer more authority on or withdraw any on granting citizenship. The main purpose was to indicate that the citizenship grant to refugees or infiltrators from three neighbours, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, would henceforth be based on religion of refugees, and to only minorities in those countries as they were forced to seek shelter due to atrocities on them. The explanation in body of the amendment did not mention Buddhist from Tibet who had escaped atrocities by the communist regime of China.