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These are testing times for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The I.N.D.I.A of the combined Opposition is testing all Indians. How many of us know our Constitution – is it ‘Bharat that is India’ or ‘India that is Bharat’? Bet the question must have 'foxed' even Members of Parliament and PM Modi is also an MP!

New Delhi: Promising defender Preeti was on Wednesday named captain of the 20-member Indian Junior Hockey team for the 4 Nations Tournament to be played at Dusseldorf, Germany from August 18 to 23.

New Delhi: The International cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday slapped a two-match suspension on Indian Women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur,following two separate breaches of the ICC Code of Conduct during the third ODI match against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Saturday. The suspension means that she will miss the first two matches of the Asian Games.

New Delhi: Asian champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty moved up a spot to achieve their all-time career-high rank of world No. 2 as per the latest rankings released by the Badminton World Federation on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, and HS Pranmoy chalked out impressive wins over their higher ranked rivals to set up an all-India pre-quarterfinal at the Japan Open badminton tournament in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Successful launch of Chandrayan 3, the latest mission of Indian Space Research Organisation to moon, is a remarkable scientific endeavour. It took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikotain Andhra Pradesh state on the afternoon of July 14,2023. With the successful launch, India is bidding to become the fourth country to execute a controlled landing on the moon and first to touch down the unexplored, rugged southern pole surface of Moon. The journey will take over 40 days (one moon day is equal to four earthen days) and Chandrayan 3 is expected to land on moon in August.

Lying has acquired the character of political culture of the BJP. Certainly it has not come as a surprise. While the so-called conscience keeper of New India, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, has not been alive to the ethics of truth, probity and transparency in the matter of functioning of its off shoot BJP, how could one expect that Narendra Modi, Mohan’s protege practice this. The net result is that even after 85 days of violence in Manipur, Prime Minister is refusing to make a statement forcing the opposition INDIA to table a non-confidence motion in the current session of Lok Sabha.

It will take a dozen oxen of 1000 horsepower each to drag Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Parliament and then, too, there is no guarantee the Prime Minister will make a statement on “Manipur”, the forbidden topic as far as the Prime Minister is concerned. For reasons beyond grasp, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears mortally scared of what Manipur holds for his government for now and for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 general elections.

Why did the Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi consciously keep a low profile at the Opposition unity meeting in Bangalore or earlier in Patna? Insiders say that it was a calculated decision.

Nearly a week has passed since the holding of the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties which gave birth to the new front INDIA consisting of 26 anti-BJP parties. In the following days since July 18, the focus of both media and the BJP leaders has been on the differing nature of the constituents and how difficult it is to make a success of the seat sharing between the partners to defeat unitedly the BJP and the expanded NDA in the coming Lok Sabha polls scheduled in 2024.