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New Delhi: Veteran batter Kedar Jadhav has joined the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as a replacement for David Wiley, who picked up a toe injury during the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Dubai: The inaugural edition of the Global Chess League (GCL), a joint venture between FIDE and Tech Mahindra, will be held in Dubai from
from June 21 to July 2.

New Delhi: 2021 World Championship medallists Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen will face off against their young challengers at the selection trails, for the Asian Games, to be held at the Jwala Gutta Academy in Hyderabad from May 4-7.

New Delhi: Talanted young pugilist Nishant Dev came up with a high voltage performance to record a dominating victory in the 71 kg category to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Wednesday.

Even five years after the historical ‘national duty’ press conference by four judges alleging undesirable practices including ‘bench hunting’, the problem continues to be the bane of Indian judiciary. All the four judges have retired for long, but many of the problems they raised persist, undermining people’s faith in the system.

With sudden announcement by Sharad Pawar to step down from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) presidency may have surprised all, but it seems that his announcement was premeditated. He will be quitting as NCP chief, but will remain in politics at least for the next three years, during which he would guide the transition of NCP on to greener shoulders, through a committee he would recommend. He is 82 years in age, and party is in urgent need to have younger leadership. However, everyone wants to know what will happen to NCP and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) after Sharad Pawar?

A new landscape in currency dominance in global market is taking shape, with US dollar losing pre-eminence and Chinese yuan gaining steam. According to a IMF survey, dollar share in central bank foreign exchange reserves declined from 71 percent in 1999 to 59 percent in 2021. This resulted in steady decline in the use of US dollar in global trade, according to Mr Fareed Zakaria, foreign affairs columnist in the article in Washington Post.

An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away from Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things are not at all shipshape for the BJP in this North Eastern state a year before Lok Sabha election. The district magistrate imposing section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and state home department suspending internet services for the next five days from April 28 are further pointers that augurs ill for the saffron party regime in this north eastern state.

Election manifestos gather dust. The statement of intent perhaps lost in translation, so to speak. The mostly disbelieving voters are asked to believe. The BJP released its Karnataka elections manifesto first. The Congress returned the favour on May 2. How do the two stack up against each other?

India has landed with a bumper GST collection in April this year, indicating thereby that however much some economists had seen serious weakness in performance, domestic economy is showing a robust trend.