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New Delhi: The lightweight double sculls team of Olympians Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh and the men’s eight team won silver medals in their respective Asian Games rowng events in Hangzhou, China on Sunday.

New Delhi: Ramita Jindal won an individual bronze medal in the women’s 10m air rifle after combining with Mehuli Ghosh and Ashi Chouksey for a team silver for India at the Asian Games Hangzhou, China, on Sunday.

New Delhi: Title contender India opened their campaign on a spectacular note blanking Uzbekistan 16-0 in the Asian Games Pool A hockey match at the Gongshu Canal Sports Park Stadium in Hangzhou, China on Sunday.

New Delhi: Odisha Open 2022 champion Unnati Hooda and the two-time U-19 All India Junior Ranking champion Ayush Shetty will lead a strong 16-member Indian Challange at the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships, to be held in Spokane, USA from September 25 to October 8.

New Delhi: Jorge Martin wheelied his way to the chequered flag after bagging the 11-lap Tissot Sprint in Grand Prix of India at the Buddh International Circuit.

The Era of Joblessness that begun with Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuming second term in 2019, has been worsening with pace of regular job creation substantially decreasing. Coupled with high prices and inflation, the situation pushed people in unprecedented economic distress that led rise in self-employment rather than the so-called economic growth that the government has been boasting about.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An incident of caste discrimination in the most progressive state in the country! Unbelievable? But it is true. The execrable act occurred in Kerala, “God’s Own Country’, in January this year.

After the high of the 'Naari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam', the BJP is battling getting a bad name because one of its Members of Parliament could not hold his tongue in the Lok Sabha and flung invectives like they are BJP's lingua franca. BJP's South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri is a flamethrower and he got into a spat with BSP MP Danish Ali. What happened next could have been avoided if it wasn’t Ali and Bidhuri. Danish Ali isn’t all that innocent while “unparliamentary” becomes Ramesh Bidhuri.

With the success of the G20 summit in Delhi, is Narendra Modi, making a mark globally as Jawaharlal Nehru did on the world stage after Independence? India’s first Prime Minister had carved out a niche for the country as the leader of the non-aligned movement even though it was at that time seen as poor and backward. Today, Modi strides on the global stage at the head of the world’s fifth largest economy.

The current upsurge in prices in India is led by food prices. In July 2023 while retail inflation was 7.44 per cent (over July of the previous year), food price inflation, which covers all food items including foodgrains, vegetables, milk products and such like, was 11.5 per cent. Food price inflation came down a little in August to around 10 per cent, largely because of some supply management measures adopted by the government relating to vegetables like tomatoes, and this was responsible for bringing down the overall retail inflation rate to 6.83 per cent; but obviously food price inflation, and with it overall retail inflation, continues to remain a serious problem.