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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.

Oil has spooked the market by registering a fall in prices when it was widely expected that Iran’s retaliatory strike on Israel over the weekend would lead to an instant spike. Not only that the spike did not materialise, but prices fell in a well-telegraphed response that baked in any risk to crude supplies in the wake of the mounting tensions.

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”.

The Friday Times in Islamabad reports that recent changes in the political dynamics of the Middle East could lead to more extensive conflicts. This situation points out a crucial lesson for Pakistan's military and strategic decision-makers: nations must emphasize their own security. Given the uncertainties in international relations, it is evident that countries cannot rely on external assistance for their defense.

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.

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and his deputy General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi were killed in an airstrike attributed to Israel on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus.