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New Delhi: Nishant Dev, Deepak Bhoria, Sumit and Narender put up brilliant performances to progress into the second round of the AIBA Boxing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Top seeds Nikki Poonacha and Zeel Desai overpowered their spirited rivals to sail into the Men and Women's singles quarter-finals of the Fenesta Open National tennis championship at DLTA here on Wednesday.

Myanmar has been again in turmoil with the country’s democratically leader Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted in an army coup in February this year. Myanmar’s junta has said that it would not engage in talks with coup dissidents, including members of Aung Suu Kyi’s ousted government, after a loyalist said dialogue was necessary to save the country. The head lawyer representing Mynamar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said that authorities in the military ruled country had issued a gag order on him because they said his communications could cause instability.

The Emissions Gap Report 2021 released just a few days ahead of COP26 clearly shows the vagueness of promises by countries and lack of transparency, clearly defined rules and target for actual reductions in emissions. As the pressure on India is being increased by the developed countries of the world with too high an expectation despite its better performance of promises, India must push for bringing all to a level playing field.

On September 26, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) under which a citizen shall have the option to obtain a digital health ID. A digital health ID is a unique ID and will carry all health records of a person.

Amarinder Singh is stuck on a name for his newly launched nameless political party. There may be christening in another 48 hours after 12 noon October 27. At least that’s the impression the captain gave when he held forth on drones and BSF and BJP, the Home Minister and the farmers’ protests. And just then Navjot Singh Sidhu tweeted!

The Modi government has taken the honourable Supreme Court, the 1.3 billion people of this country and all lovers of democracy on a ride by refusing to answer one simple question: whether it used to spy on its own citizens in the name of national security. The Supreme Court, which delivered its long-awaited judgment on the controversial Pegasus snooping episode, has indicted the government on both counts.

The Supreme Court order on Wednesday morning appointing an expert committee to look into the allegations of unauthorized surveillance using the Pegasus software is nothing but a Watergate like moment for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP led NDA government. The observations made by the learned bench led by the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana prima facie confirms what the petitioners have said in their allegations that the ruling administration at the centre is stonewalling any probe into the allegations which are hitting at the fundamental rights of the citizens including politicians, journalists, human rights activists and even the senior officials of the centre.

Ministry of Railways has begun implementing a report on right sizing the workings of Indian Railways by reorganizing its public sector undertakings (PSUs) including Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) through mergers of some units and closure of some others to avoid overlapping and to cut costs to effect economy of scale in rail services to the nation. The ongoing action is a sequel to a report by former Principal Economic Advisor Sanjeev Sanyal in the Ministry of Finance. Ministry of Railways has the largest number of PSUs and SPVs in the Union Government. Ministry of Finance has been pressuring Ministry of Railways to effect changes as per this report.

Hisar: In the biggest upset of the tournament, promising Haryana pugilist boxer Jaismine stunned huge favourite and Olympian Simranjit Kaur (Punjab) in the 60kg semi-finals of the 5th Elite Women’s National Boxing Championship on Tuesday when sheat St Joseph’s International School in Hisar.