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New Delhi: India went down 1-3 to hosts and favourite Germany in their opening match of the 4- nation junior women hockey tournament in Düsseldorf, on Saturday.

New Delhi: It turned out to be golden Saturday for Indian archers as men and women's compound teams finished on the top of the podium in the Archery World Cup stage 4 in Paris.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Saturday shortlisted 40 players for Sub-Junior National Coaching Camp, to be held from 21st August at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela .

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Days speech seems to have disappointed two very different kinds of political observers. For Modi admirers, the speech does not offer any new mantra. Except for the slogan, “demography, democracy and diversity”. Modi did not make any extraordinary or unexpected claim that could be highlighted as master stroke by the pro-BJP media.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi might be happy to announce that the Indian economy would become the third largest in the World in the next 4 or 5 years. These numbers do not mean anything as long as millions of people are still living below the poverty line in India. Statistics can be juggled upon to paint a rosy picture but the reality is far from it. The feel good factor generated by these selective number crunching does not amuse the vast majority in Bharat like the India Shining campaign of BJP leaders of Vajpayee era in 2003-04 Modi govt needs to take a lesson from it and project a realistic picture of the economy so that correctives are taken to reverse the derailed economy.

BHOPAL: Two moves both by the BJP and Congress in Madhya Pradesh have not only surprised the rank and file of the two parties but also general public.

G20 Leaders’ Summit will take place on September 9-10 in New Delhi. In the discussions before the summit, India is expected to present a crypto guidance note summarizing all the work member countries have done on cryptocurrency. This guidance note is significant as it may form the basis of some outcomes from the Leaders’ Summit.

The migrant workers in India have ultimately been getting attention of the Centre led by PM Narendra Modi while he is seeking third term in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election 2024. It has been reported that the pan-India surveys for migrant and domestic workers would soon be released so that targeted policy intervention could be in place.

Quite likely newly appointed UPCC Chief Ajay Rai was appointed with the diktat he made sure Rahul Gandhi won the 2024 general elections from his old pocket-borough Amethi, which is currently represented by Union Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani who had defeated Rahul Gandhi in 2019 with more than 55000 votes to spare. A contest in 2024, therefore, cannot be left to chance – victory at all costs and Rai is like confidence personified.

LUCKNOW: With the installation of Ajay Rai as Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President, The Congress party high command wants to bring back party in fighting mode to take on BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Considered to be an aggressive politician, Ajay Rai can help in the revival of fortunes of Congress which is out of power in UP since 1989.