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New Delhi: Top seed Tejas Ahuja commenced his campaign with an easy 6-3,6-2 victory over Arnav Vijay Paparkar in the opening round of the (U-16) Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship here on Monday.

New Delhi: Irish boxing legend Bernard Dunne, who has produced Olympic and world champions, is the new director of high performance of Indian boxing.

Gurugram: Olympian Aditi Ashok will lead the Indian challenge at the star studded Hero Women’s Indian Open to be played at the DLF Golf and Country Club, here from October 20.

New Delhi: Team ‘Birdie Machine’ pipped team ‘Tee Birds’ to the post by a narrow half-point margin to seal the quarter-final berth in the ‘Lloyd Delhi Golf Club League’ here on Monday.

There is always a debate in India whether South is doing better than North. In the early years after independence North was doing better and South which always had better administration, was lagging behind economically. One of the reasons for South todo better in subsequent years was the politicians in south worked much more for the common good of the society than north Indian politicians. Politicians everywhere do give more emphasis on self-promotion and making money for themselves and parties but the difference in south is that they do contribute much more to improving the society.

Just three weeks are left for the holding of crucial midterm elections in United States of America on November 8. During this election, all the 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 Senate seats will be contested.

The situation worldwide and in India for the working class and the common people in general has further deteriorated on all counts since the last CPI party congress held at Kollam, Kerala. In 2018. The 24th congress of the CPI is currently on in Vijayawada till October 18.

Indian Rupee (INR) is constantly depreciating against the US Dollar (US$). If the trend continues the exchange rate of INR vis-à-vis US$ may touch Rs.100 for a dollar before the end of this financial year. It could be a matter of great concern if India continues to import heavily from US$ trade regions. Imports during April-August, this fiscal, grew by 45.74 percent to $318 billion. Trade deficit widened to a record $124.52 billion in the first five months of 2022-23 as against $53.78 billion in the same period last year. Rising US$ did not help much to push exports. Moreover, India’s export basket is limited. Most economies are under pressure from high energy costs and domestic recession. Imports don’t figure highly in their economic agenda. India is 86 percent import dependent on oil. While it can do little to compress the oil import bill immediately, it can certainly contain non-oil non-essential imports, at least for the time being.

Future of work has been increasingly dependent on algorithm management for quite some time, the process of which has been accelerated after the COVID-19 crisis changing the world of work. It is posing new challenges to the labour market in general, and workforce in particular. It is potentially disruptive, and to confront its negative effects, rebalancing the equilibrium between employers and workers is required.

The wheelchair-bound former Delhi University professor, GN Saibaba, accused of being a Maoist “mastermind”, remains incarcerated in Nagpur Central Jail despite the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitting him, and five others, including one who is no more, ordering that they be released on October 15 itself. But the euphoria was stillborn. The Supreme Court in a surgical operation of no mean haste, undid the Bombay High Court’s gesture and made sure Saibaba and fellow inmates didn’t walk free.