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In the past too Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had experimented with several types of coalitions, in 2017 aligning with Congress and in 2019 luring the BSP of Mayawati, but none of the coalitions to defeat the BJP worked. Once again he has floated the idea of a new nature of coalition, PDA (Pichade, Dalit and Alpasankhyak), just ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to defeat the BJP led NDA in Uttar Pradesh.

The politics in the Ramayana is over after a few turns of the pages. Machinations of the ‘second wife’ which conspired to send Lord Rama into exile with wife Sita and brother Lakshmana in tow; thereby setting the stage for the most celebrated kidnap-cum-rescue dramas of all-time; a stunning piece of screenplay. And now this gem of a story has been hijacked and turned into a piece of common trash for narrow political benefit.

New Delhi: Eleven Services' pugilists on Sunday made it to the finals of the sixth Youth National Boxing Championships in Gangtok, Sikkim.

New Delhi: Murali Sreeshankar qualified for the World Athletics Championships in the long jump event with a massive 8.41m leap at the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships at the Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, on Sunday.

New Delhi: Ace compound archer Abhishek Verma did India proud as he shocked 2019 world champion James Lutz of the USA to win the gold medal at the Archery World Cup 2023 stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia on Saturday.

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy scripted a history as they stunned the reigning world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik in straight games to win India’s maiden BWF Super 1000 title at the Indonesia Open badminton tournament in Jakarta on Sunday.

An alarming level of gender gap in India persists. Labour Force Participation rate (LFPR) for women in urban arease in Current Weekly Status (CWS) was only 18 per cent in the last quarter of 2022-23 ending on March 31, 2023 as against the global women labour force participation rate of 47 per cent as the latest ILO data. Worker Poulation Ratio (WPR) for women was just 16.4 per cent. Since the Government counts a person getting even one hour of work per week is considered employed, the real status of women workforce can well be assumed far worse than the government data reveals. Moreover, the gender gap has been widening on year-on-year basis.

New Delhi: India Captain and ace drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh says that playing against top European teams in the FIH Hockey pro league has been a good learning experience and that will "help us in preparing for the Asian Champions Trophy and Asian Games".

New Delhi: Diksha Dagar (69-69) and Avani Prashanth (65-79) are among the four Indians who made the cut in the Amundi German Masters at Brandenburg, Germany.

New Delhi: Formidable pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty overpowered South Korea's Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae 17-21, 21-19, 21-18 to storm into the final of the Indonesia Open badminton championship on Saturday.