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New Delhi: Deepak Kumar, Mohammed Hussamuddin and Nishant Dev will take to the ring with the aim to clear penultimate hurdle before aiming to clinch a first-ever gold medal for India as they gear up to compete in the semi-finals of the IBA World Boxing Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Friday.

New Delhi: Indian hockey team's chief coach Craig Fulton feels that men in blue will be under pressure to perform well in the upcoming FIH pro league matches in the United Kingdom ."I understand there will be pressure to perform, obviously from the fans, the media and the team itself. I believe pressure can be a positive thing, it will help us focus and also perform at our best," he said.

New Delhi: Virat Kohli says that breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries would be an emotional moment for him.

The unanimous verdict delivered on May 11 by a five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India on power struggle in Delhi between the elected government of the National Capital Territory and the Centre’s steps of usurping the powers of the state is significant for the country, since Modi government of the Centre has been alleged of encroaching the powers of the states destroying the constitutional federalism of the country.

Twenty-five years ago, as many Indians flew in a year as they do in a month now. That may sound like a measure of economic prosperity. Only two state-owned airlines had held half of the domestic aviation market then. In March this year, 57% of the 13 million tickets that were sold were booked with only one private airline.

The state of press freedom in India has been accurately captured by the World Press Freedom Index. This year’s index was issued on May 3, which is observed as World Press Freedom Day. The Reporters without Borders (RSF), which has prepared the World Press Freedom Index has placed India in the 161st rank out of 180 countries. The disturbing fact is, this is eleven ranks below India’s position of 150 in 2022. The index report notes that “The violence against journalists, the politically partisan media and the concentration of media ownership all demonstrate that press freedom is in crisis in ‘the world’s largest democracy’…”.

The Supreme Court Thursday refused to rule Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde out of his job because it was snatched from Uddhav Thackeray who should have faced the floor test and not fled the scene. The top court’s refusal was disappointing because everything else the court said prior to expressing helplessness gave one the impression Shinde will find himself jobless, and good riddance!

Manipur was like trump card for the BJP. Since their first ascendance to power in 2017, with the calculated plan of a conquest they treated Manipur as their spring board for North East. BJP's gaining of power in the state itself was through crooked ways. It had only 21 MLAs in the 60 member Assembly, where as the Congress had 28 members. Purchasing MLAs and manipulation of Governor's office helped BJP to manage their foot hold in Manipur. From there they extended the tentacles of hatred politics to nearby states one after another.

Amidst the conjecture making round the political circle that the next meet of the opposition leaders for taking forward the process of unity, would take place in Patna on May 18, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashvi Yadav left for Mumbai on May 11 to meet NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray. Nitish's Mumbai visit comes on a day when the Supreme Court gave his verdict on the Shiv Sena split lasting the Governor’s action but simultaneously stating that the Uddhav Thackeray government could not be restored.

Notwithstanding Supreme Court glare on the release of Bilkis Bano convicts, the chances are quite bleak that their release would be declared null and void and they would ever be sent back to the prisons.