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New Delhi: In an edge of the seat contest India and England lived up to the billing as they played a high-voltage 1-1 in their campaign opener in their pool B match of the Women's Hockey World Cup at Wenger Hockey Stadium, Amstelveen on Sunday.

New Delhi: On a day of mixed fortunes for the Indian pugilists, World Championships bronze medallist Jamuna Boro put up another clinical performance overpowering Kazakhstan’s Anel Sakysh to become the fourth -Indian to enter the finals of Elorda cup in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on Sunday.

New Delhi: Rattled by massive age-fudging scandal which hit Yonex-Sunrise All India U-13 tournament Badminton Association of India (BAI) has gone on damage control drive asserting that it will not tolerate any such act and will take strict action against those who were involved in this scam.

New Delhi: India will field three teams in the Open section after getting a last-minute entry to register their highest-ever participation at the 44th Chess Olympiad scheduled to be held at Mahabalipuram from July 28 to August 10.

Drug prices in India in general, and essential life-saving medicines in particular, have become too costlier to afford for majority of 1.38 billion population in India since April 1, especially those 800 million people who did not have even food to eat during the COVID-19 crisis, which had compelled the Government of India to announce free foodgrains, the scheme that has been extended until September, 2022.

It is all very well that the petition moved by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for combining all the FIRs registered against her in different parts of the country for her offending remarks about Prophet Mohammed has been dismissed by a Supreme Court vacation bench in a two-line order.

Now that ‘Operation Lotus’, Maharashtra edition, has successfully added the richest state in the realm to the 2024 BJP war-chest, ‘Operation Lotus’, Telangana edition, is ready for launch. And Telangana is in the neighbourhood, right next to Maharashtra. Therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party is holding its national executive in Hyderabad with Prime Narendra Modi also planning to hold a “massive rally” in Secundrabad on Sunday.

Over the past decades, the Hindu-Muslim axis has once again emerged as the Central pole of Indian politics. But now, a period of churn has set in, following a raft of incidents, the latest being the brutal daylight murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur by two Muslim men, because the former, backed the controversial comments on Prophet Mohammed by a former BJP spokesperson. The current state of sectarian tensions were inevitable in a way, because majoritarian rhetoric has been part of the ruling party’s electoral agenda.

New Delhi: Ace goal keeper and captain Savita on Saturday promised a better showing by Indian Women team against England in their first pool B match at the FIH Women's Hockey World Cup at Amstelveen (Netherlands) on Sunday.

Foreign contributions to individuals, associations and companies are regulated by the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (‘FCRA’). The central aim of the Act is to prohibit foreign contributions, the utilisation of which may be for activities detrimental to the national interest. The FCRA was amended by the Parliament in 2020 to prohibit sub-transfer of foreign contributions to any other person, reduce the use of foreign contributions for administrative activities to 20 per cent from the existing 50 per cent, mandate that foreign contributions could be received at the State Bank of India’s (‘SBI’) New Delhi branch, and registration or renewal of registration would require Aadhaar as proof — among other things. Clubbed together, these have primarily impacted Non-Governmental Organisations (‘NGOs’).