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New Delhi: Hockey India on Thursday named former captains Sardar Singh, and Rani Rampal mentorship and Coach's respectively of Sub-Junior Men and Women camp will be for 45-50 days and will commence from 21st August, at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium, Rourkela, which has state-of-the-art facilities. The camp will then be followed by international matches in Europe – Belgium and the Netherlands.

New Delhi: Former champion PV Sindhu received a first-round bye as most of the Indian shuttlers got a favorable draw for the BWF world championships to be held in Copenhagen Denmark, from August 21 to 27.

Sharing a first name with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is just one reason why UBT Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi cannot be anything but “sisterly” to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi unlike Union Minister for Minority Affairs Smriti Irani who finds in Rahul Gandhi’s every gesture an invitation – to a fight! Just like the ‘flying kiss’ Rahul Gandhi allegedly hurled in the direction of BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha.

Lok Sabha passed Data Protection Bill amid Opposition protest. It was passed on August 7, 2023 and now Rajya Sabha has also passed it despite opposition boycott. The law would allow the government to have access to the privacy of any citizen. It will also be able to enforce mass censorship and have right to engage in surveillance. The right to privacy was declared six years back as fundamental right for the citizens of India by the Apex Court unanimously. But it is the government apparatus that the bill protects while the entire masses have to face the sword hanging on them for always, ever. No one can prevent the government from encroaching into their most intimate personal affairs.

Continuing with its avowed policy of throwing open the country’s natural resources for exploitation by private capital without regard to either the people or the environment, the Modi government has rushed through parliament two laws that will have dire consequences. One is to amend the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA) and the other to amend the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Act.

Be it an American government headed by Donald Trump or Joe Biden, US imprint on Pakistan's governance continues to stand out. This time it is Pakistan's decision to postpone for the time being the gas pipeline project with Iran with pressure from US administration.

Only five months after the judgement of the Supreme Court of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre has come out with a bill that not only removes the Chief Justice of India from the committee that was empowered to appoint Election Commissioners of India, but also kills democracy itself by providing absolute power to the Prime Minister of India. Ironically, the Election Commission is meant to democratically conduct free and fair election in the country.

It would be a simplistic evaluation to describe Rahul Gandhi’s 9 August 2023 speech on the non-trust motion in Lok Sabha as merely tearing into Narendra Modi’s style of governance. No amount of class theatrics and master oratory would be able to eradicate the imprint that Rahul managed to create in the minds of the people of India through his speech.

WASHINGTON—Saying 28 million U.S. workers would get a pay raise, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., plus 29 other senators, introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028, and entirely eliminate the so-called “tipped minimum wage,” raising those workers to minimum-wage status over seven years.

New Delhi: U Mumba on Wednesday appointed Gholamreza Mazandarani, KC Suthar and Jeeva Kumar as the new coaches for Season 10 of the Pro Kabaddi League.