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Janet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the US is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardising the hegemony of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If the sanctions were imposed on just one or two countries, then matters would be different; but sanctions these days are used by the US to target dozens of countries, and, when this happens, those countries tend to get together to form alternative arrangements for bypassing such sanctions. These alternative arrangements have the effect of undermining the US-dominated world order which is characterised by the hegemony of the dollar.

It is dozens of hours since the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to their ‘Mann Ki Baat’, perhaps aware that India’s Prime Minister often slips into his default position of hard of hearing. And PM Modi, for all we know, must not have heard the cries of the wrestlers, whose allegations of sexual harassment against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India Chief Brij Bhushan Sharan haven’t pierced the ears of the Modi government. They can get hold of the best German-made hearing aids, but maybe PM Modi is waiting to find the letter on the bed to crack a joke at the expense of MP BBS.

May Day this year would be observed with more vigour by the working class for several pressing reasons. Taking into cognizance of the political developments which are moving at very fast pace on every front in the year before general elections in2024, it is of utmost importance to assess the situation. The economy is further deteriorating and the prices are rising high, especially of the essentials like the cereals, pulses, wheat flour, rice, cooking oil, cooking gas (at about Rs 1,200 a cylinder), 15 per cent rise in milk prices in last one year, the cost of education and health care rising making it out of reach of the common man as the income/wage increase is not taking place.

Many of the top wrestlers of the country, including international medal winners, are out protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They have returned to the spot where they first conducted dharna in January since the government and the sports ministry have not acted on the complaints of sexual harassment made by some women wrestlers against the chief of the Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP MP, and some of the coaches.

Heatwaves horrors across India has been intensifying chiefly because of unpreparedness in dealing with the worsening heatwave conditions over the years due to heating up of the climate. The death of 13 people in Maharashtra from heatstroke and many others admitted to hospital after attending a government-sponsored event in an open ground under a blazing sun is a glaring example that ultimately compelled the government to order a ban on outdoor events between 12 noon and 5 PM.

New Delhi: In a major development, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Thursday set up a two-member Ad-Hoc Committee consisting of Bhupender Singh Singh Bajwa, IOA Executive Council Member and Ms. Suma Shirur, Sportsperson of Outstanding Merit of IOA to run the Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) office.

New Delhi: In preparation for Hangzhou Asian Games, Indian Women's Hockey Team will tour Australia for a five-match series, from 18 to 27th May.

New Delhi: Ace driver Jehan Daruvala will be eyeing his third consecutive Azerbaijan podium as Formula 2 returns to action at the Baku city circuit after a month-long break.

The multi-talented, widely admired performer Harry Belafonte died Tuesday, April 25, at age 96. He was born on March 1, 1927, in New York City as Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr. His ancestry is Jamaican and Martiniquan, and his paternal grandfather had Dutch Jewish origins.

A large section of youngsters in India, looking desperately at career advancement prospects, is paying for 2-3 degrees in the hope they will one day find their dream job. They are drawn irresistibly to colleges that are mushrooming inside tiny apartment complexes or inside stores in public places. Billboards promoting organizations promising job placement border both sides of highways.