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The ruling establishment in India led by PM Narendra Modi has been sabotaging workers’ unions ever since the BJP came to power in 2014 is a well-known fact and is well documented and censured by even Credentials Committee reports submitted in the International Labour Conferences of the ILO, the latest being held during June 5-16, 2023, but the government remains unperturbed and does the same shamelessly, year after year.

New Delhi: Playing fast and attacking game, hosts Germany outplayed India 4-1 in the first of the two Women's hockey matches at Wiesbaden on Tuesday. Nike Lorenz (6', 59') and Jette Fleschütz (14', 43') scored a brace each for the winners, Vaishnavi Vittal Phalke (29) was 'the lone goal-scorer for the visitors.

New Delhi: World no 3 pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty recorded an easy win over their rivals to move into the second round of doubles at the Korea Open 2023 badminton tournament on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends 80 MPs in Lok Sabha, the largest number across the states, has lately been witnessing much increased political activities. Double anti-incumbency seems to be working against the double-engine government under PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and CM Yogi Aditya Nath in the state. Both the ruling establishment and the opposition are aware of this and hence their activities are revolving around it. BJP is vigilant about the potential harm, and hence stepped up strengthening the NDA, while the opposition seems to suffer from irrational hopes and fears over their alliance that keep them still divided.

Maharashtra politics is strange and is getting weirder by the day. Ask anybody in the streets of Mumbai. Pune or Nagpur. Opinion will not change even in Sambhaji Nagar. Ask political analysts and they'll say Maharashtra’s politicians are to blame. Take, for instance, the powerful Pawars, Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar, uncle and the nephew, who are two of a kind, both of them disruptive politicians; cunning and clever with a poker player’s yen for gambling with every move.

Finland’s new government had been in power for less than two weeks before entering into crisis. Vilhelm Junnila, the new minister of economic affairs, from the nationalist Finns Party, turned out to have had a history of far-right signaling, including jokes implying affinity toward Adolf Hitler. In a tight vote of confidence, he didn’t even get the support of all the new government’s ministers and resigned in disgrace a few days later.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has slipped to world No. 17, her worst in ten years, in the latest women’s singles BWF rankings, released on Tuesday.

New Delhi: In a stunning move, the Australian state of Victoria on Tuesday announced that it will not host the 2026 Commonwealth Games because it is turning out to be too expensive.

WASHINGTON: Trump and his inner circle are not at all shy about saying he will move to assume the role of a dictator should he be elected in 2024.

Increasingly, muzzling political freedoms beyond national borders is part of an autocrat’s toolkit.