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Chennai: Gurugram’s Manu Gandas and Sri Lanka’s N Thangaraja emerged joint leaders at 11-under 133 on day two of the Impiger Technologies presents Chennai Open Golf Championship here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Midfielder Hardik Singh on Wednesday admitted that the loss to Australia in the Hockey final of the Commonwealth Games will haunt him for some time. "I still think about that match when I am alone and it does affect me. It will take some time to overcome the 0-7 loss and this match is a big lesson for us ahead of our preparations for the World Cup in January."

Kolkata: Fancied Mohun Bagan (MB) and Mumbai City (MC) played out a thrilling 1-1 draw in a Group B 131st Durand Cup clash, at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) here on Wednesday.

The 100 times hike in compensation for martyr’s kin by Gujarat from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1 crore shows how much anxiety has gripped the ruling BJP just a few months ahead of Vidhan Sabha election in the home state of PM Narendra Modi, where his charisma will be put on test again, the result of which will influence the Lok Sabha Election 2024 and his fate. BJP’s stake in Himachal Pradesh is also very high due to elevated feeling of anti-incumbency among the people.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strengthened himself in the last eight years, to such an extent in his party and outside that the gap in popularity between him and other probable prime ministerial aspirants comes no way closer to him.

RAPE is considered an impact crime. An impact crime is one which is committed not just against the person for who she is but also because of her community identity; in this case a community of women, a community of minorities. The crime impacts the community as a whole.

In a surprise move, the government on August 3 withdrew the much-awaited Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill from parliament. After it was introduced in Lok Sabha in December 2019, the PDP Bill was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which tabled the bill on 16 December 2021, in parliament. It proposed a single law for both personal and non-personal data. One of the controversial recommendations was related to the localization of data, which asked for certain kinds of data to be stored locally – in India. Tech companies including entities like Google and Facebook found this untenable.

The farmers are again on the battle path against the Narendra Modi Government as the centre did not fulfil its commitment given to the farmers leaders last year before withdrawal of the year long agitation.

Delhi's New York Times-accredited Education Minister Manish Sisodia is the latest cult figure to invade our minds. And whoever knew Manish Sisodia is a "kshatriya" kept the secret to himself, which was fine because now that we all know, we can look down at the Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, who, if the almanacs are not wrong, is lower down in the caste-tree; most definitely a "Vaishya".

The news that the company producing Paracetamol in the trade name of ‘Dolo’ spent 1000 crore rupees as freebies to the doctors for the promotion of their drug is a matter of concern. It shows the total failure of the government in regulating the pharmaceutical marketing practices. It is well known that Pharma companies spend huge amount of money for promotion of their products. Much of this is spent in organizing medical conferences in the name of continued medical education programmes many a times at lavish scale.