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Kochi: Uttarakhand's Arjun Pradhan and Maharashtra 's Jyoti Gawate won the inaugural Federal Bank Kochi Marathon here on Monday.

New Delhi: To give a big boost to Hockey in the Union Territory, Jammu & Kashmir Sports Council has installed three new Astro Turfs in the valley and three more are under construction and will be made operational in a couple of months.

New Delhi: On a day of mixed fortunes, ace pugilist Mohammad Hussamuddin kicked off India’s campaign with a dominating victory while Varinder Singh crashed out the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Monday.

As per the State of World Population Report published by the United Nations Population Fund, India will become the most populous country in the world in the summer of 2023. At this point, India also has a relatively 'younger' working-age population compared to China. Depending upon how one read the data, this can be a boon or bane, as labour is an important component of growth in national income (read, GDP). If the labourers are productive, then their income and the economy grow. Much of the GDP growth that occurred among the emerging Asian economies during the second half of the last century was through increased labour force participation. These countries, for example, China, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam, were able to absorb labour from the low-productive agricultural sector to the high-productive manufacturing sectors. Much of the supply of white goods like mobile phones, air conditioners, refrigerators, computers, etc. are manufactured in these countries, thereby making their economy transition from low to middle and high-income economies.

Myanmar, India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), recently attended a secret meeting in New Delhi to discuss the ongoing crisis in junta-led Myanmar. This meeting was the second in a “Track 1.5” dialogue series that began in Thailand last month. The participants of the meeting could not be identified as the gathering was confidential.

The constant political exploitation of the reservation policy, framed in 1950, threatens to further divide the country not only on the caste and sub-caste lines, but also on their extension to rope in religions. As the situation stands today, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the author of the reservation policy, would have been ashamed of his radical initiative intended to annihilate the caste system itself. Ambedkar, who framed the country’s Constitution, was an intense fighter in the cause of annihilation of caste. The social reformer saw education as a potent tool that could equally empower every citizen to build an egalitarian society as also to help break the age-old restrictive shackles of discriminatory social practices. It did not happen in the absence of a uniform and universal education system. The reservation policy has become a powerful tool of politicians to keep dividing the country’s poor.

Less than a year is left for the commencement of the polling in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. After the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's positive talks on forging opposition unity with a large number of parties, including the Congress, focus has shifted to the next meeting of the anti-BJP parties expected to be held in June this year, after the announcement of the results for Karnataka assembly elections on May 13.

History’s shadow can be longer than one might think. Eight decades ago, a thirty-year-old African-American Communist writer published a bold and alarming dramatization of the social costs of capitalism and racism at the time of the Great Steel Strike in 1919. Failing to recognize common class interests, African-American and Euro-American workers were at each other’s throats.

Wrestling is ballet with violence. But ballerinas of this rough and tumble sport are virtually on the mat in the national Capital Delhi.

This is one for Ripley’s ‘Believe it or not’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a glutton for abuse and appears to like being called vile names. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge called Modi “zehreeli saanp” and the BJP broke out in a rash of gleeful reactions. The sagging image of the BJP, and that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, received a booster thrust like that of a rocket blasted into space from Sri Harikota.