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New Delhi: Ace striker Navneet Kaur has opined that this is the right time for aspiring women players to take up the sport as besides recognition, equal status and opportunities the fan-following for women's hockey too has grown considerably in the past couple of years.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals' IPL campaign suffered a jolt with its experienced leg-spinner Amit Mishra being ruled out for the rest of the season due to an injury to his bowling hand.

During a Sep. 23 news conference, when asked about the election outcome, Trump said, “We’re going to have to see what happens,” in response to a question about committing to the results. “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.”

That trade unions saw red when the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, and the Code on Social Security, 2020 is understandable. The passage of these crucial bills, welcomed by corporate India, but severely impacting workers, was preceded by only three hours of discussion. At the end of it, 350 pages of legislation loaded in favour of business and seen as anti-labour was given the nod by both Houses on a day when the Opposition had boycotted Parliament to protest the Farm Bills.

Clearly, the current stalemate in bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh may last longer than expected. The recent visit to Dhaka made by Foreign Secretary Mr Harshvardan Shringla, was a good symbolic gesture, but there is little forward movement on two issues. India is yet to announce its stand on the Teesta River Water sharing proposal pending since 2012. Now China has stepped in , offering a $300 million project in Bangladesh’s Northern districts, to take care of local water needs and related problems during the dry season Secondly, during the recent Foreign Secretary level talks in Delhi between India and Myanmar, no special efforts were made to raise the Rohingya influx to Bangladesh, at present numbering over 860,000.

On a day when the entire nation was shocked at the ghastly incident that took place in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh, stood by the side of the bereaved family to share their grief and pain and was showing its sympathy to the parents of the brutalised girl, the conscience keeper prime minister Narendra Modi was desperately striving to detract the attention of the nation from the ghastly crime.

The response of the BJP’s troll army to the Amnesty International’s departure from India showed that Islamophobia was not the only arrow in the Hindutva brotherhood’s ideological quiver.

It is high time that India formulates a strategy to multiply food production and make food available to its poor millions at affordable prices instead of wasting energy on strategising agricultural marketing. Ranked 102nd in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) of 117 countries, India urgently needs to increase food production. This is possible. India boasts an arable land area of 159.7 million hectares, the world’s second largest, after the US which has 174.45 million hectares. India is far ahead of fourth placed China having only 103 million hectares. Russia is placed third with 121.78 million hectares. Yet, India’s food grains (mostly wheat and rice) production target for 2020-21 is barely 298.3 million tonnes as against China’s 347.9 million tonnes. A major consumer of corns, China’s corn production target is 250 million tonnes. China is also a major importer of agricultural products, mostly from the US, to feed its people. Going by a report of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), India is heading toward a record wheat harvest and near-record rice production for 2020-21. Wheat production is forecast at 105 million tonnes while rice production is estimated at 117 million tonnes. In comparison, China’s rice production target is 212 million tonnes and wheat output target 135 million tonnes.

There is no end to farmers’ sufferings in spite of our Prime Minister and his team’s proclamations of their being committed to the welfare of the farmers, at every suicide by farmers, at every mischief committed against them, and at their every loss. It points out two things - either the proclamation of commitment is a sanctimonious lip service, or the government is incapable of carrying out their commitment.

LUCKNOW: CPI national leader Atul Anjaan has appealed to PM Narendra Modi to convene a meeting of all chief ministers to discuss the important issue of rising crime against women in view of recent cases of rape in Hathras, Balrampur in UP and Bara in Rajasthan and other parts of the country.