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New Delhi: Despite suffering a whitewash against Australia in a away hockey series last week, ace drag flicker and captain Harmanpreet Singh has excused confidence that India will have a podium finish at the Paris Olympics.

New Delhi: India finished the Asian Wrestling Championship with nine medals - four silvers and five silvers - in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

New Delhi: With exactly 100 days to go for the start of the Paris Olympics, India is hopeful of bettering its Tokyo Games medal haul in the quadrennial sporting extravaganza this time.

On the day of closing of Election campaigns on April 17 for the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 scheduled to be held on April 19, INDIA bloc seems to have an edge over NDA, though BJP is set to win largest number of seats partywise followed by DMK, and INC.

On April 3, when Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge walked into narrow lanes of Usmanpur in North Delhi to launch the party’s ‘Ghar Ghar Guarantee’ programme, it was also a trip down the memory lane.

The Supreme Court observed humans can manipulate electronic voting machines but is averse to the return of ballot papers. Also, trust in the Election Commission is not 100 percent. The word used was “manipulate”. But ballot papers are a strict “no-no” as "India is not Germany". Final apex thought: The EVM, while accurate by all means, can be tampered with by “human beings”, but will rule the roost. So, wait for new trustworthy technology? Perhaps Artificial Intelligence intervenes and the EVM learns to become “self-aware”.

KOLKATA: Campaigning in Jalpaiguri, Coochbehar and Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituencies in north Bengal were not at all warming up exercises for either Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. Apart from going by the saying that well begun is half done, both the leaders have sweated it out in these north Bengal seats seeking to "draw the first blood”. All three presently with the BJP, will go to the polls on April 19 in the first phase.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: He came. He saw. But he failed to conquer. That broadly sumps up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest visit to Kerala. The PM’s Mission Kerala has failed to serve the purpose of boosting the sagging fortunes of the BJP in the elections.

BHOPAL: BJP is leaving no stone unturned to snatch Chhindwara from Congress – the only seat which it won in 2019.LokSabha polls in Madhya Pradesh. Besides all possible powers, it is also using police to demoralise the Congress candidate Nakul Nath as also his father Kamal Nath, the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. Home Minister Amit Shah not only spent night in Chhindwara but also put up a mega road show to impress voters.

Speaking in an election rally in Pipariya town in Hoshangabad Parliamentary constituency in Madhya Pradesh on April 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a mockery of nuclear disarmament. In his speech he said ‘those who talk of nuclear disarmament cannot protect the country;’ some constituents of INDIA group talk of nuclear disarmament he warned. There can be only two inferences from his statement. One, that he is using it for petty electoral gains by projecting himself as the saviour of the country who talks on the position of military strength. The other inference could be that he is naïve about the catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons.