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America today illustrates what economic distress can do to humble a proud nation. The land of democracy is facing the worst threat to the country’s basic political feature with the blow coming from none other than its highest guardian.

Blinking first in its battle of attrition with Governor Kalraj Mishra over convening the Rajasthan Assembly at short notice, the Ashok Gehlot government has settled for a special house session on August 14 instead of July 31 as originally demanded. Even though brisk horse trading has started during the period, chances are that Chief Minister Gehlot may pull through.

The new education policy, named as National Education Policy, 2020, like many other measures is being introduced among the Covid 19, pandemic. The Prime Minister gave a call to convert crises into opportunities while giving the call for making India “Atmanirbharshil”. Introduction of such an important policy while the country has been going through a disaster seems to be one of such conversion.

It is a good sign that the last meeting of the Congress bigwigs involved a sharp exchange of views. It showed that there is still life in the old warhorse. Perhaps the fact that it was a video conference helped in the airing of conflicting opinions.

It is difficult to understand why the government and Reserve Bank (RBI) are pushing commercial banks to increase lending to pep up industrial growth and economy at a time when the market is highly unstable and demand for nearly all products are badly down. The entire economy is going through a big negative growth under various kinds of lockdown and containment zone restrictions. Nothing seems to be moving.

New Delhi: Asian Games champion Bajrang Punia has promised a better showing by the Indian wrestlers at the Tokyo Olympics next year saying that country can expect at least three to four medals in this sport at the games.

New Delhi: Overcoming several odds 17-year old Jr women's hockey team forward Mumtaz Khan has become one of the brightest prospects for the country after putting in impressive performances in the last couple of years.

New Delhi: Ace striker and former captain Bhaichung Bhutia is of the view that a successful striker needs to have something extra in him to make him special in the team.

New Delhi: Bengaluru based Akhil Rabindra who last year became the only Asian to make it to the AMR Driver Academy, is among 12 elite drivers from around the world to be retained by the prestigious Aston Martin Racing (AMR) Driver Academy for the 2020 season.

New Delhi: Former hockey captain Sardar Singh, cricketer Virender Sehwag, 2016 Rio Paralympics silver medalist Deepa Malik, eminent sports journalists Neeru Bhatia and Alok Sinha are among the members of the selection committee formed by the Sports Ministry for the national sports awards his year.