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New Delhi: Having made stunning comeback by winning back-to-back matches against Belgium and Great Britain, India's new hockey coach Craig Fulton on Tuesday exuded confidence that his team will regain the top spot in FIH Pro League.

In the mid-1990s and about the time when the Bharatiya Janata Party was still building its formidable cadre, the Telugu Desam Party’s N. Chandrababu Naidu used to be the busiest political body in Delhi and everybody knew if something political was cooking it would be in Naidu’s kitchen. Current Congress leader Rajiv Shukla used to be a “journalist” then and in the thick of what Chandrababu was cooking. Those times have faded but the other day when Naidu met Union Home Minister Amit Shah it did take one back in time. So, what’s cooking in the 'Naidu Mess' in 2023?

Why do Indian politicians woo the Diaspora in the United States and elsewhere? Why does the Diaspora, who can't vote in India, take an interest in their homeland? It is perhaps because, as India's GDP grows, the Diaspora's role in India's foreign policy also rises.

Former President K.R. Narayanan made power good by remaining true to the Constitution, and above everything, to constitutional morality. Even the longest-written Constitution in the world, i.e., Bharatiya Samvidhan (Indian Constitution) relies on the ‘executive’ to interpret actions as underpinned by the morality whose framework was created by its founding fathers. This is true in situations where the Constitution vests discretionary powers in the executive, or is silent on a particular matter of jurisprudence, law and policy.

Though India is currently the third largest polluter in the world in terms of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) emission as estimated in 2020 after China and the United States, its pollution is less than half of the US and one-fourth of the China. Moreover, if taken historically, India’s contribution in pollution between 1750-2020 is merely 2.3 per cent. Therefore, targeting India as one of the largest polluters of the world on the World Environment Day is totally unfair while ignoring the challenges India is facing today. More so because failure of India in overcoming the challenges would shatter the dream of the world to face the climate crisis successfully. India, in this backdrop, needs greater global support, both financially and technologically, rather than mere criticism, because India alone cannot overcome its challenges.

New Delhi: The Global Chess League (GCL) a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and FIDE, on Monday today unveiled the six participating franchises,all owned by the Indians, for its first edition, scheduled to take place from 21 June to 2 July in Dubai.

At a time when BJP national leadership wants to pull out all stops to ensure that saffron juggernaut rolls all over the West Bengal in next year's election, it finds organisational glitches hamstringing its programme with less than ten months to go before the crucial Lok Sabha polls. Loose ends so far overlooked threaten to retard the program with the fact of being cut off from the masses looking the state leadership in the face.

The worst rail disaster in a century, so far claiming 275 lives, in triangular derailments in Orissa, is so perplexing even for a technology-minded Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, that the cause gets shifted from signal system failures to ultimately sabotage CBI would probe.

There is jubilation in Indian government as uptick in last quarter lifted India’s GDP growth in fiscal 2023 to 7.2 per cent belying expectations of less than 7 per cent growth this year. After slowing GDP growth of 4.5 per cent in third quarter, there were fears that fourth quarter performance will not be that good and growth will slide to 4.2 per cent in fourth quarter on the back of slowing world economy and monetary tightening by RBI due to stubborn domestic inflation.

Sulking is common to non-BJP Chief Ministers. And opposition unity suffers. Right now the tribe of non-BJP Chief Ministers sees opportunity in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s problems. The Modi government’s ordinance upturning the Supreme Court’s verdict that gave Delhi’s AAP government control over “services” is the magnet for opposition unity and Kejriwal has been dragging Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to all corners of India seeking opposition unity confirming the oft-forgotten dictum that only when it happens to yourself does the shoe pinch.