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The greatest athletes in America are standing up for justice at a critical time.

Despite unprecedented, multiracial demonstrations across the country protesting police violence against African Americans, the horrors keep on coming.

Delhi witnessed its worst anti-minority riots in decades in February this year. Of the 53 people killed, more than two-thirds were Muslim. Media reports indicated that a majority of the homes and shops that were looted and torched belonged to Muslims.

In these darkest days of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) — when jobs and economies have collapsed — 56 million households got work in the past three months and these jobs provided relief. This was under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which perhaps is the largest social net scheme in the world.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been extolling the virtues of social distancing on every conceivable occasion. But his government has been following a strict policy of ‘financial distancing’ when it came to handling the aftermath of the debilitating lockdown.

Two orders issued by the two different High Courts of the country on September 1 once again show that the Courts can still undertake their due responsibility as true defenders of the human rights and the constitutional ethos. In one case, the Allahabad High Court ordered immediate release of Dr. Kafeel Khan who spent more than seven months in prison for his public address against CAA and NRC outside the Aligarh Muslim University campus saying the detention of the doctor under the National Security Act (NSA) for his alleged hate speech was bad and unsustainable in the eyes of law.

All public institutions like the judiciary, Election Commission, Central Vigilance Commission, Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate, National Investigation Agency, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Information Commission, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Parliamentary Standing Committees/ Select Committees/ Joint Committees etc., created to play checks and balances on the government and safeguard people’s basic rights in the scheme of the Constitution of India as part of public participatory democracy, seem to have abdicated their intended role.

New Delhi: The first Cycling Summit in India will be held in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and is expected to be a unique confluence of cycling enthusiasts, renowned athletes and businesses from all over the country.

New Delhi: Veteran tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi has stressed on the need of mental training and infrastructure at grass root level to prepare players for top level competitions at home and abroad.

New Delhi: Verstile goalkeeper Gurpreet Sandhu says that any player who wants to play abroad should be ready for lot of sacrifices and must have steely resolve and commitment to secure place in a football club.

New Delhi: Three-time Asian Tour winner Gaurav Ghei feels that Indian professional Golf has made rapid progress in recent years due to strong domestic backup and PGTI tour.