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Chennai: Bengaluru’s reigning champion Hemant Muddappa (Mantra Racing) emerged the fastest rider in the first round of the MMSC Fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship held in a secure bio-bubble environment at the MMRT circuit here on Sunday.

New Delhi: The Swimming Federation of India (SFI) on Saturday announced that it will hold interactive online sessions with international experts coaches, parents and sportspersons on resumption of training and competitions.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals Head Scout Vijay Dahiya on Saturday exuded confidence of his team continuing with their winning ways as they take on four time champion Mumbai Indian in their seventh match of the IPL on Sunday in Abu Dhabi.

At least 20,000 people gathered outside the central court in Athens on Wednesday to hear the long-awaited verdicts in the trial of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. Cheers went up when a guilty verdict was announced and the party was declared a criminal organization. Eighteen former lawmakers, including leader Nikos Michaloliakos, were among those declared criminals.

The first sentence on the Ministry of Law and Justice’s website states “Ministry of Law and Justice is the oldest limb of the Government of India dating back to 1833 when the Charter Act 1833 enacted by the British Parliament.” Why is the oldest limb not taken adequate care of?

The circus continues to rock. From deep inside Mumbai, it's like the Centre's nowhere in the picture. But push aside the facade like you do a curtain and the door opens to a vista wide open. You'll spot the footprints of the Centre as clearly as fish in unmuddied water. The Centre's representative in Mumbai is the CBI and while the CBI isn't doing anything that's apparent, worth its reputation or mandate, that's exactly what it's doing: Coolly sitting and watching and not moving a finger or a toe. It's not investigating. The top investigating agency was brought in to investigate Sushant Singh Rajput's death and get to the bottom of it: Was Sushant Singh Rajput murdered or did he kill himself, a little matter of suicide?

LUCKNOW: Why is BSP national President Mayawati afraid of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Ravan?

Ram Vilas Paswan's death just days before Bihar votes will inevitably cast a shadow on the polls, but one thing is absolutely certain that it will not have major impact on the electorate scenario and the political equations. He has been a dalit icon and commands respect of the Dalits, especially of the Paswan (Dusadh) caste, but how far in the changed political situation he would succeed in influencing the Dalits is quite intriguing.

Foreign hands was a bogey used by Indira Gandhi to denounce anything that was not to her liking. She saw a foreign hand in everything, from changing weather to large populations of India remaining poor, poverty having been a most favourite theme that she used to cling on to power. It is an irony of fate that it was finally the hand that brought her back to power after remaining briefly in political wilderness in the aftermath of Emergency.

Uttar Pradesh is India's badlands, both in terms of crime and police atrocities. But even by its abysmal standards, the state has plumbed new depths with the Hathras rape case and its aftermath.