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New Delhi: Former champion PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy, will headline 14-member Indian challenge at the BWF World Badminton Championships to be held from August 21 to 27 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Sunday shortlisted 39 players for the coaching camp to be held from 21st August to 18th September at SAI Centre in Bengaluru in preparation of the Hangzhou Asian Games.

New Delhi: It was a flop show by the nine Indian athletes, in the fray including medal hopeful steeple chaser Avinash Sable on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

New Delhi: India went down 1-3 to hosts and favourite Germany in their opening match of the 4- nation junior women hockey tournament in Düsseldorf, on Saturday.

New Delhi: It turned out to be golden Saturday for Indian archers as men and women's compound teams finished on the top of the podium in the Archery World Cup stage 4 in Paris.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Saturday shortlisted 40 players for Sub-Junior National Coaching Camp, to be held from 21st August at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela .

LONDON: There was widespread relief at the underperformance of Spain’s far-right Vox party in last month’s general election. The centre-right also failed to meet expectations, leaving no bloc easily able to form a government and the likelihood of a second election later this year.

China is walking into a real financial crisis. A major part of Chinese financial architecture, the shadow banks, are facing serious liquidity problems and they have not paid their investors the amounts of returns they promised. This has raised doubts over their future.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Days speech seems to have disappointed two very different kinds of political observers. For Modi admirers, the speech does not offer any new mantra. Except for the slogan, “demography, democracy and diversity”. Modi did not make any extraordinary or unexpected claim that could be highlighted as master stroke by the pro-BJP media.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi might be happy to announce that the Indian economy would become the third largest in the World in the next 4 or 5 years. These numbers do not mean anything as long as millions of people are still living below the poverty line in India. Statistics can be juggled upon to paint a rosy picture but the reality is far from it. The feel good factor generated by these selective number crunching does not amuse the vast majority in Bharat like the India Shining campaign of BJP leaders of Vajpayee era in 2003-04 Modi govt needs to take a lesson from it and project a realistic picture of the economy so that correctives are taken to reverse the derailed economy.