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New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen chalked out contrasting victories to move into the second round of the Canada Badminton Open in Calgary.

New Delhi: Promising teenagers Aryan Nehra and Lineysha AK emerged as the best swimmers in men and women's categories respectively at the Senior National Aquatic Championship which concluded in Hyderabad last evening.

New Delhi: India with 30 points from 16 matches finished fourth in the FIH Pro League 2022-23 which was won by the defending champion the Netherlands (35 points). Britain (32 points) ended as the runners up while Belgium, with 30 points, were placed above India in the table, having more wins (10 vs India’s eight).

Napoleon had once said, "…Money has no motherland; Financiers are without patriotism and also without decency. Their sole object is gain”. Though not visible, it is the creed on which the finance capital takes roots. India is slowly stumbling towards the higher state of capitalism which does not have a face but in essence is merger of industrial capital and banking capital. The notification by the RBI on June 8, 2023 allows the commercial banks to negotiate compromise settlements with wilful defaulters who refuse to settle the outstanding loans despite having capacity to repay and to settle their outstanding debts once and for all.

All the claims made by Prime minister Narendra Modi on the absence of discrimination based on caste, creed, religion, age or geographic location in India, during his rare interaction with the media in the US were immediately proven wrong. A spate of attacks on religious minorities centring around Eid and the overt or covert protection to the perpetrators of such attacks by the State, sharply bring to focus the huge gap between the claims and deeds of the BJP government.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has changed four state unit presidents in an organizational rejig designed with general elections 2024 in mind. Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab now have new state unit presidents whether BJP cadres in the four states like it or not. The organizational rejig is the doing of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah with party President JP Nadda helping with a shake of the head here and a shake of the head there.

Harivansh Narayan Singh, the deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha and a person who owes his political learning under former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, meeting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at his official residence on Tuesday has triggered intense trembling in the political circles of Bihar.

When 14 political parties together approached the Supreme Court alleging misuse of central agencies including CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to cow down political opponents, the court rejected the plea on the ground that politicians cannot be placed on a pedestal for special treatment and that they can only be treated like common citizens. But a new petition by a private company, which has been at the receiving end of ED action, moved before the apex court has questioned the ‘drastic powers’ given to the agency, which according to the company, needs to be reined in.

July 5, 2023 marks the second death anniversary of Jesuit priest and Adivasi rights activist Father Stan Swamy, one of the 16 persons accused in the Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad Maoist links and criminal conspiracy case.

Katukoori Jayaraj has not forgotten the times he had to beg at a railway station for survival. “it is embarrassing to share this part of my life but it is a fact, he says. Today, Jayaraj, 28, is a small scale entrepreneur in Karimnagar in north Telangana brimming with confidence in his neatly pressed semi-formal clothes. And he has only one person to thank for it. “It is KCR”, says Jayaraj, his voice full of gratitude.