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Pune: N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan’s dream run came to an end as they lost to fourth-seeded duo of Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen 6-4, 6-4 in the double's final of the Tata Open at the Balewadi Stadium here on Saturday.

The Lt. Governor, Delhi, VK Saxena, acts as if he’s a power unto himself. But everybody knows his loyalty to the Union Ministry of Home is absolute. The Delhi Government is at the mercy of frequent interventions, call them interferences. And if Delhi is suffering, it is because of this unwavering subservience to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the relentless assaults on federalism. If left unchecked, the Lt. Governor’s actions will be the death of governance, if it isn't already.

New Delhi: The two best teams each of Europe and Asia-defending Champion Belgium, two-time winners Germany, Asian Games Gold medallist Japan and Asia Cup winner South Korea- form the interesting and intriguing pool B of the Odisha Hockey World Cup to be played at Bhubneswar and Rourkela from 13 to 29th January.

The United Nation has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Since that was at the initiative of India, which also accounts for a fifth of the world’s millets production, Narendra Modi government would be expected to do something different this year to promote these “nutria-cereals” – going beyond just spreading awareness, or organizing “particular millets lunch” for parliamentarians and journalists.

India’s North-East has seen several major infrastructure projects in the past few years. The latest is a 57 km broad gauge railway line between India’s Kokrajhar and Bhutan’s Gelephu, for which the work is going to start this year. This would be Bhutan’s first railway project and one of the five railway projects for which India and Bhutan had signed an MoU in 2005. The Kokrajhar-Gelephu railway line project’s estimated cost is $130 million and the preliminary engineering work is about to complete. In this context, a meeting between Bhutan and Indian Railway officials was held last month in Guwahati to expedite the construction of the five rail lines listed in the 2005 MoU.

The first week of 2023 has brought the signs of the beginning of even higher level of unemployment in India at 8.4 per cent than 8.3 per cent in December 2022 which was 15 months high. It is indeed a bad news, but not so bad as the Modi government’s trick to show the actually falling formal employment as provisionally rising month after month.

In Tripura, the main contending formations in the coming Assembly elections have stepped up efforts to secure an alliance with the pace-setting tribal Tipra Motha (TM) party. So far, the TM has maintained an equidistance from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/IPFT alliance and the Left front/Congress grouping.

Pune: The French tennis star Benjamin Bonzi registered a sensational 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-1 victory against the World No. 35 Botic van de Zandschulp to progress into the singles final in the fifth edition of the Tata Open Maharashtra at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Friday.

New Delhi: The 16 best teams from across all the continents will battle for supremacy in the FIH Odisha Hockey World Cup. However, the first hurdle these teams will face is from their pool opponents.

On January 3, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer retired as the third senior-most judge of the Supreme Court and a member of the Supreme Court Collegium, after a tenure of nearly six years at the Supreme Court.