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New Delhi: India suffered their fourth successive defeat as the men-in-blue lost 1-3 to Australia in their penultimate game of the five-match hockey Test series in Perth on Friday.

New Delhi: In a dramatic move, Six-time World boxing champion MC Mary Kom on Friday announced her decision to step down as the chef-de-mission of the national contingent for the Paris Olympic Games citing personal reasons.

It may be a bit late as only six days are left for the beginning of the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19, but still it is high time that the Supreme Court intervenes to ensure level playing field for the opposition by stopping the politically motivated raids being currently conducted by the central agencies like the ED, CBI and the Income Tax Department against the opposition parties and their leaders.

The election campaign of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is resorting to open appeals based on religion. It has made the Ram temple an election issue and dubbed some of the opposition parties as being against the temple and Lord Ram. This is a blatant violation of the model code of conduct and some of the speeches should come under the purview of relevant provisions of the Indian Penal code for inciting hatred and inflaming religious sentiments.

All the eight states in the North Eastern part of the country will go for poll in the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 on April 19, covering 14 Lok Sabha Constituencies out of 25 in the region.BJP seems to have upper hand in 6 seats and its allies in 2 seats. Congress has edge in 5 seats while others have advantage in 2 seats.

In the drawing room of a famous Bengali writer, who is certainly not known to have a strong anti-system views, in the posh locality of politically sensitive South Calcutta on Sunday, a group of academics, filmmakers, retired IPS and army officers, in a pensive mood, are busy in an animated discussion about the future character of the polity. Being Bengali, they are obviously more worried about the bizarre attack on Bengali society and culture.

In India, it would be hard to name any political party that attacks the Border Security Force (BSF) organisation more viciously than the Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal-based Trinamool Congress (TMC), through its statements and allegations. This being a general election year, the political ramifications of the TMC’s stand, as can be expected, are being felt in East Indian States — and surprisingly, in Bangladesh as well !

Recently, tensions have surged between Iran and Israel. On Twitter, Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated that Israel’s reported attack on a site within an Iranian embassy area in Damascus— capital of Syria and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities—was tantamount to aggression against Iran. He emphasized that Israel deserved to face consequences for its actions.

HELSINKI: Shades of the far-right British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher more than 40 years ago: After just over a year in office, Finland’s right-wing, pro-NATO Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, a supporter of sending weapons to Ukraine, is trying to bust Finnish unions through wide curbs on workers’ rights.

New Delhi: India piped Chinese Taipei 2-1 in its third Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Group I tennis tie at the Moon Island Clay Park in Changsha, China on Thursday.