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New Delhi: Top golfers will be seen in action in the $500,000 at the DGC Open to be held from March 24-27 here at Delhi Golf Club.

New Delhi: Taking no chances in view of the drastic rise in the Covid cases, mostly owing to the Omicron variant. The Sports Authority of India on Wednesday issued fresh Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to deal with the situation.

New Delhi: Title contenders and former champions Punjab, West Bengal and Kerala have been clubbed in Group A for the 75th edition of the Hero Santosh Trophy to be held in Kerala from February 20.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been rudely reminded that the farmers’ protests are far from over, Modi’s unilateral surrender notwithstanding—it did not make a dent on the farmers’ spirits. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alluded to as much when asserting that but for Covid-19 quarantine rules, he would have been at Modi's side on the flyover.

By the morning of January 6, it was clear that lives and livelihoods in India are at greater risks from the third wave of COVID-19 than many among us believed. Total daily reported cases were about 91 thousand with sharp spike of over 56 per cent new infections a day and 325 deaths. Infection from Omicron variant stands at only 2630, which is also spreading fast.

It is not wanderlust that drives people to places, these days it is replaced by hunger, a force that cannot be staved off. Some time back, the number of migratory labour, retrenched, pushed out, had shocked us with their growing number as thousands of men and women, children and the old, had walked through the long, bumpy stretches to arrive at, oh no, not at the green pastures of their dreams, but somewhere with bread. The spectre of hunger still haunts, taking its toll. Jobs are getting fewer every day. Openings are limited, choices scant, and never according to one’s skills. One could have done business management and apply for a gardener’s job or if one has done a doctorate, one can be a peon in a school. System refuses to open up for those skilled for their expertise, it prefers to let them waste.

Even two weeks after the hate-mongering dharma sansad in Haridwar on December 17 to 19, where calls were given to attack Muslims and eliminate them by mass murder, there has not been a single arrest. The first FIR lodged had only one name, that too of a Muslim who converted to Hinduism. Subsequently, after another FIR was filed, four more names were added including that of Yati Narsinghanand, the organiser of the event.

At least 50 anxious people gathered near the village pond in Chotahi village, Samastipur district of Bihar. They had gathered to save their houses which were declared illegal as the area was developed as a green belt by the state government of Bihar under the project ‘Jal Jeevan Haryali’.

Never before in the history of our country, a Prime Minister had cast aspersion on the state’s chief minister as was done by Narendra Modi on Wednesday in Punjab. Modi on his return to Bhatinda airport after his aborted visit to Ferozepur had told a senior Punjab official, “Apne CM ko thanks kehna, ki mein Bhatinda airport tak zinda laut paaya.”

Tamil feminist writer Ambai, Kannada biographer DS Nagabhushan, Telugu poet Coreti Venkanna and English author Namita Gokhale, among others, are this year’s winners of Sahitya Akademi Award. The Award was announced for literary works in 20 languages.