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Sonia Gandhi’s recent meetings with the G-23 leaders of her party for whom she did not have much time earlier underlines her realization that Rahul Gandhi has failed to live up to her expectations for him to be an unchallenged, front-ranking leader of the Congress. She has to look for other options, therefore, even if reluctantly.

Chennai: Bengaluru pair of Karna Kadur and co-driver Nikhil Pai (Arka Motorsports) kept their nerves to win the 44th South India Rally, here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Olympian Nitendra Rawat and Jyoti Gawate won the men and women's titles of the Ageas Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon here on Sunday as six elite runners made the cut for the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games, by attaining the qualifying marks.

New Delhi: Unheralded Nitithorn Thippong spoiled the Indian party as he held his nerves at the crucial moments to beat Ajeetesh Sandhu on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off to claim inaugural $500,000 DGC Open after a dramatic finish at Delhi Golf Club (DGC) here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Top seed National Champion Arjun Erigaisi along with compatriots Harsha Bharathakoti and D Gukesh led the point table with seven points at the end of the eighth round of the 19th edition of Delhi International Open Grandmasters Chess tournament here on Sunday.

New Delhi: National Champion Arjun Erigaisi defeated International Master (IM) Shyam Nikhil to be back in the joint lead in the seventh round of the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament now underway here today.

Chennai: Bengaluru pair of Karna Kadur and co-driver Nikhil Pai (Arka Motorsports) survived a puncture and a cracked windscreen to seize the Overall lead in the 44th South India Rally here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Unruffled by the strong Indian challenge and windy conditions around him, Nitithorn Thippong carded successive 2-under par 70 round to unfurl the Thai flag on the top of the leaderboard at the end of the third and penultimate round of the inaugural The DGC open at the Delhi Golf Club here on Saturday.

After the saffron party’s recent victory in the assembly polls, particularly in the northeastern state of Manipur, it was expected that there would be a positive impact in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the northeast, which financially depends mostly on the Centre. The return of the saffron party in the state of Manipur with a majority of its own shows that it is no longer an outsider in the region. The saffron party also won 7 seats in the Christian dominated hill region of the state. It had won 5 in this region in the 2017 state assembly polls. After its success in Manipur, the saffron party has set its target for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in the region.

Two-day workers strike across India on March 28-29 on the call of the joint platform of 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) - INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC - and Sectoral Federations and Associations is getting larger support, barring from the pro-government Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), which has roots in RSS-BJP and naturally supports Modi government, though large number of workers affiliated with the BMS are going to participate in the general strike. In spite of the impending threat of Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA), many roadways and electricity workers, such as in Haryana and Chandigarh, have decided to strike. It should be an eye-opener for the Modi government since the country seems to be heading towards an ugly turn to embitter the already strained industrial relations in the country.