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“Towers of corruption demolished”, the shrill voice rising above the plumes of billowing dust. Somebody called it “spectacle demolition”, no less symbolic than the 1992 demolition of a 500-year-old mosque. The voice had its roots in Uttar Pradesh. The Supertech Twin Towers of corruption were brought down at the Supreme Court’s intervention.

New Delhi: Indian Hockey is moving in the right direction. This assertion was made on by the Men and women's team captains Manpreet Singh and Savita respectively today on the occasion of National Sports Day which is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Legendary Major Dhyan Chand.

Kolkata: Displaying awesome fire power Mumbai City trounced Rajasthan United 5-1 in their Group B league match of the 131st Indian Oil Durand Cup football tournament, at the Kishore Bharati Krirangan (KBK), here on Monday.

Imphal: Local club Tiddim Road Athletic Union (TRAU) staged a fine come back as they scored two goals in the last ten minutes of the game to overpower Army Red 2-1 in the group C match of the 131st Durand Cup Football Tournament here on Sunday.

Guwahati: Kerala Blasters overwhelmed North East United FC (NEUFC) 3-0 to record their first win in the Group D of the 131st IndianOil Durand Cup football tournament at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here today.

New Delhi: Mid fielder Sonika feels that Women's hockey In in India has evolved over the past couple of years, "We have improved a lot as a team, have started playing solid attacking hockey and have become more dominant in the attack.

New Delhi: Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra scripted yet another new chapter becoming the first Indian to win a Diamond League title at Lausanne last evening.

In the mid-1990s, Ghulam Nabi Azad used to talk to journalists who had just then taken to television journalism. Azad was those days a top voice for the Congress and much sought after by journalists. Note that none of the then “TV reporters” were live to television journalism. Looking back, the tribe of politicians who deigned to give them “bytes/bites” were doing them a favour. The print journalists, most of them, tolerated the presence of ‘Newstrack’, ‘Aaj Tak’ and a couple of other audio-visual programmes that had booked slots on DD1, DD2 and, later, DD3.

The sudden twist in the Supreme Court stand on the confidentiality of the report of the expert committee that probed the use of Pegasus spyware to snoop on politicians and people in public life has added more mystery to the imbroglio. The decision to keep the entire contents of the report in a sealed envelope within hours of outgoing Chief Justice announcing that some parts of it would be uploaded on to the Supreme Court website has come as a shock, raising more doubts about whatever has been going on in connection with the scam.

Kolkata: Scoring a goal in each half local favourite Mohammedan Sporting (MDSP), overpowered India air force 2-0 to become the first team to move into the quarter-finals of the 131st Durand Cup football tournament at Kolkata’s Kishore Bharati Krirangan here today.