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New Delhi: Defending champion Manish Sureshkumar of Tamil Nadu and fourth seed Vaishnavi Adkar (Maharashtra) stormed into the semi-finals of the 28th Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship in their respective categories at the DLTA Complex here on Thursday.

New Delhi: Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Sandhu put up a super combine display to defeat Malaysia’s Aifa Azman-Mohd Syafiq Kamal 2-0 for the gold in the mixed doubles squash event at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China on Thursday.

New Delhi: It turned out to be golden day for the Indian archers as their men’s and women’s team compound archery events claimed the top podium places the at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Thursday.

New Delhi: HS Prannoy fought through a back injury to defeat Malaysia’s Lee Zii to assure India second badminton medal, while two-time Olympic medallist, PV Sindhu’s campaign at the Asian Games ended after she was ousted by China's world no 5, He Bingjia in the quarter finals in Hangzhou on Thursday.

New Delhi: Seven-time champion India overran Japan 56-30 to setup a semi-final clash with Pakistan in the Men's Kabaddi Tournment of the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Thursday.

The Indian Democracy is currently under severe attack by the ruling Government at the centre. The raids by the Delhi police on the staff of the NewsClick news portal and subsequent arrest of the founder editor Prabir Purkayastha and HR head Amit Chakraborty on October 3 signal the arrival of an era when all norms of democracy and press freedom were violated to achieve the objective of the ruling establishment to curb dissent.

Last Sunday, lakhs of central and state government employees converged in the capital New Delhi, demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme. The coverage of this massive rally was limited to describing it as an event, obscuring the reflection of a deeper economic malaise afflicting our country. According to the old pension scheme, an employee was entitled to receive 50 per cent of their last salary drawn as pension. This amount was also adjusted yearly to account for inflation. The new pension scheme, on the other hand, returns to retired employees an amount which is invariably not more than half of what they used to receive under the old pension scheme. The law mandates that all those who entered service after 2004 will only avail of the new pension scheme.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first world leaders to congratulate president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, of the People’s National Congress (PNC), on Sunday in a post on social media platform X, saying that New Delhi was unflinching in its determination to strengthen the India-Maldives bilateral relationship which had stood the test of time.

It did not strike anybody. Neither to the enforcement directorate, nor to the prosecution. And it did not strike the defence team of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. None of the AAP ministers or the AAP MLAs thought of it. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal completely missed it. But it could not escape the notice of the country’s Supreme Court, which sought to know why the Aam Aadmi Party had not been named as an accused in the Delhi liquor scam if the money was going to the AAP treasury?

As the summer with its heat is receding and winter, with its horror of ice cold nights shivers even in these warm days, India’s majority population, jobless, hungry, goes to bed to spend a night of miseries. It is October again, and on its second day was born the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Bapu, as he was called, is a presence that has always been there. For more than a century, it was always like in any crisis, we were confident of his protective aura. We earned our independence, we built our political system that was democratic, secular and socialist, we had our education system, health care, nationalization to slowly get rid of private ownership, and finally our composite culture that got evolved, and nurtured by the Constitution. And yet, there was the right, growing stronger all the time.