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New Delhi: Olympians Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh will lead the 33-member (20 men,13 Women) strong Indian rowing squad's challenge at the Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8.

Regional security dynamics are profoundly affected by a country’s missile capabilities. It is crucial to evaluate India and China’s missile potentialities because they are two major world powers. Both countries possess all classes of ballistic missiles, anti-satellite capability and anti-ballistic missile defence.

How should Sharad Pawar be addressed, what is his status in India's political spectrum, is he still Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief and patriarch of the combined Opposition? The NCP founder has promised to restore the mangled NCP to its pre-split glory in three months flat. Isn’t that acknowledgement that the NCP split is full and final? Uncle Pawar and Nephew Pawar are cut from the same cloth and it is unlikely either of them will back off at the insistence of the other.

New Delhi: National Anti-Doping Agency (Nada), India on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Asia Regional Anti-Doping Organization (SARADO), comprising of Anti-Doping Organizations of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka to increase the Regional Cooperation in anti-doping in sport.

New Delhi: Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra on Monday admitted that his priority at the moment is the World Championship saying, "It’s important to be injury free but I have to work on my fitness, especially before the world championships. I need to give myself time to prepare. I had to travel a bit because of the injury and because of that, I had to reduce the amount of training I did. Now I have to push myself. I had focused on the injury and now have to focus on my training."

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games Silver medalist Avinash Sable clocked 8:21.88 to finish fifth in the 3000m steeplechase event at the Stockholm Diamond League last night.

What happened to Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena has happened to Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party. A desperate Bharatiya Janata Party has taken to decimating opposition parties to thwart Opposition unity, plainly using Modi's "guarantee to jail corrupt politicians" to engineer and split opposition parties for guaranteeing a third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the process, Modi's "noble drive" to put an end to "dynastic politics" is being cited as an excuse. Yup, Prime Minister Modi is the only dyed in the wool honest "neta" in the realm, everybody else is a crook!

In the light of ongoing efforts of opposition unity in the country, a sense of urgency has developed in the top BJP leadership to strengthen the NDA across the country in general and Uttar Pradesh in particular, since the state sent largest number of BJP and NDA MPs in the Lok Sabha that helped the party to form it government at the Centre both in 2014 and 2019. BJP’s internal assessment has recently found 18 of the total of 80 Lok Sabha seats in red zone. No wonder, the Union Minister of Home Amit Shah on July 2 made a strong pitch for further strengthening NDA and consolidation of OBC voters in the state.

Ajit Pawar, nephew of Sharad Pawar, joining the bandwagon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — just after five days of his being described publicly as the most corrupt politician of Maharashtra, by none else but by Modi, at a public rally in Bhopal on June 27 — has not come as surprise. It has also not come as an insolent shock that Modi who while claiming that a net amount of Rs 70,000 cores has been stolen by the Maharashtra politicians, had “guaranteed” to the people at his rally that they would not be spared, emphasising that it was “the guarantee being given to you by Modi”, welcomed the very same “corrupt” Ajit Pawar into the BJP camp.

Electronics and defence production are expected to strongly accelerate the country’s economic growth engine in the coming years. Global manufacturers now find India as the most happening place as China used to be in the beginning of the current century. From just two small mobile phone manufacturing factories in less than 10 years ago, the country has already emerged as the world’s second largest mobile phone producer looking at an output target worth Rs.24 lakh crore, generating over 10 lakh jobs by 2025-26.