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Bengaluru: In-form Pranavi Urs carded 2-under 67 to emerge sole leader at the end of the first round of the ninth leg of the Hero WPGT at the Bangalore Golf Club on Wednesday.

India is entering into a major cost of living crisis due to multiple domestic and international crises, which included soaring food and energy prices, rising poverty, joblessness, endangered food security, disincentive to farmers growing food articles, and lopsided policy interventions. The way the government is responding to the issues lack holistic approach, and problems are being responded to on adhoc basis with little temporary success to less number of people than really in need, which further contribute in exacerbating the cost of living crisis.

The rupee hitting new lows has become a monotonous regularity. The currency has fallen in the relentless climb by dollar, subjugated any resistance offered by other currencies, including the euro, which has fallen to its 20-year low, fast approaching the highly embarrassing parity in the wake of a crippling energy crisis brought about by Putin's Ukraine war.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympics medallist PV Sindhu, World Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead 10-member strong Indian Badminton team at the the Commonwealth Games to be held at Birmingham from July 28 to August 8.

Lucknow: Major opposition parties are busy in overhauling their organisations to take up the challenge of BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. No opposition party can match BJP in terms of its organizational muscle power. So soon after the state assembly election, all leaders and workers are engaged to prepare for next election. BJP is always in election mode.

World Population Prospects 2022 has revealed that India ran faster in population race to become largest populated country in the world in 2023, four years ahead than estimated in 2019, bringing unprecedented challenges which needs to be converted into demographic advantage with planning and action at war footing, or else will land into perilous conditions.

The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But there is no doubt that by fielding Murmu for the office of president, Modi has put Sinha in a very tight spot.

They don’t look like lost and found brothers. Edappadi K Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam share nothing in common other than that they were “dual leaders” of the AIADMK, the party that MGR founded and J Jayalalithaa carried in her aura. Now, her two self-proclaimed protégés have in less than two years of her passing sold the AIADMK down the river, squabbling for control of the party and willing to kill it in the bargain. If Jayalalithaa were alive today, both E Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam would have been flat on their bellies at her feet asking for forgiveness, and, perhaps, getting soundly spanked for the temerity.

New Delhi: Remembering veteran journalist Avinash Chandra Saxena, popularly known as A C Saxena in short, and simply AC among his friends and colleagues, is of great value at a time when independent journalism is in peril, for remembering such professionals could serve as ray of hope and inspire liberal thinking among journalists. He is no more among us. He died on April 27, 2021 the age of 93 after two months of decline in health due to his heart ailments. Today, July 12, 2022 is his 94th birthday. We asked his son Anoop Saxena, Correspondent and Producer, ARD German Radio to let us know about a son’s perspective about him, which we are producing here along with some quotes about him.

New Delhi: Riding on captain Savita's heroics in the shootout, India piped lowly Canada to record their first win at the Women's Hockey World Cup at Terrassa (Spain) to progress to the 9-12th placings of the tournament.