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New Delhi: The full-time whistle blew as the Indian Arrows vanquished Churchill Brothers to record their first win of the Hero I-League 2019-20 season. On the touchline, Head Coach Venkatesh Shanmugham and Assistant Coach Mahesh Gawli sported wide smiles as they joined in the celebrations. For the duo who have both enjoyed decorated playing careers and celebrated a multitude of trophies and triumphs together, this victory at the Fatorda Stadium was special — marking their first win since joining forces to take charge of the Arrows.

New Delhi: The Indian men's and women's table tennis teams missed out on an opportunity to secure qualification for the Tokyo Olympics in the 2020 ITTF World Team Qualification tournament in Portugal, earlier this month, but the top Indian TT players still have a chance to book a berth in the singles competition.

New Delhi: World Championship bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth and former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead a full-strength Indian men’s team challenge at the Badminton Asia Team Championships to be played in Manila, Philippines from February 11-16.

New Delhi: Serena Vikram Singh of Noida held her nerves as she overcame overnight leader Kayla Perera to claim the Girls 15-18 title on the sixth play-off hole in the US Kids Indian Championship golf at the Classic Golf Resort near Manesar on Friday.

Palestinians waged a general strike in the besieged Gaza Strip January 29 as protests continued to rage against the “dismal” Middle East peace plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

BJP experimenting violence with hatred has been gradually reaching to the flash point. This has not come as surprise. Amit Shah, the Home Minister has been providing it a perfect shape and character in the form of pitting Shaheen Bagh against India. In his election speeches in Delhi he has been harping on this aspect by saying that Shaheen Bagh has been endangering the social and political ethos of the country. The most ridiculous thing what he said was: “Listen voters on February 8, press the EVM button on lotus so hard that the shocks are felt in Shaheen Bagh.” No doubt only a person like Shah could speak this language.

We had our Republic Day this week, the day when our Constitution came into effect for the first time with a democratic governing system completing the transition towards becoming a sovereign republic. For the first time we addressed ourselves as “We the People” of a secular, socialist, democratic republic. For the first time in last two hundred years, we became an independent country with our composite culture and a pronounced sense of love and peace for the entire humankind. With the attainment of nationhood, we started building up the world’s largest democracy. On January 26, 1950, with the coming of Constitution, the path was charted out and we took our initial steps.

The first Economic Survey presented in the first year of the 2020s, the decade which has been termed as the ‘key to India’s growth’ by the President of India in the Parliament of India today, presents a very disturbing picture of the state of economy in 2019-20 where we have landed at under the leadership of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has expected this first Budget Session of the decade ‘should ensure to lay strong foundation for a bright future of the country in this new decade’.

New Delhi: Aryan Kaila of Delhi and Sri Lankan Kayla Perera extended their lead in the boys’ and girls’ category respectively at the end of the penultimate round of the US Kids Indian Championship golf tournament being played at the Classic Golf Resort near Manesar.

New Delhi: Women hockey captain Rani Rampaul on Thursday earned the distinction of being the firstt Indian athlete to win the prestigious World Games Athlete of the Year 2019 Award.