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For the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) in West Bengal and its bigger ally in the Northern districts Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), the recently concluded elections brought good news. The BGPM dominated the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) polls, winning 27 seats, while the TMC won five.

Several things were happening when the BJP was holding its national executive in Hyderabad, targeting Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao with an eye on the Telangana assembly elections slated for 2023. Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid low KCR with attacks on dynastic politics, resistance was building up against the BJP all over for knowingly abandoning Hindus at the altar of Modi’s ‘sabka saath sabka vikas’ mantra, which without the appeasement of the Muslim votebanks of the secular parties with rations for votes, would go for a toss.

The Samajwadi Party’s defeat in two Uttar Pradesh by-elections, the Trinamool Congress’s miserable performance in the Tripura polls and the BJP’s strangulation of the ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi with the help of the Shiv Sena rebels, are signs of the BJP juggernaut’s – bulldozer’s? – relentless progress in various directions.

It is good to see that a host of large Indian business houses and public sector enterprises have rapidly stepped up imports from Russia taking full advantage of hefty price discounts offered by Russian suppliers on a host of goods in the face of multiple trade sanctions from the NATO countries, European Union and their allies. Among the country’s top business leaders to step up imports from Russia are the Tatas, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, Kumar Mangalam Birla-led UltraTech Cement, Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel group, Saroj Poddar-led Chambal Fertilisers& Chemicals and Tony Fountain-led Nayara Energy (formerly Essar Petroleum). The latest move is saving Indian companies millions of dollars in import costs and benefiting the country in billions of dollars of foreign exchange outgo as imports are mostly Indian Rupee denominated.

New Delhi: Expressing satisfaction over team's showing against England in the opening match, Chief coach Janneke Schopman and skipper Savita on Monday exuded confidence that India will come out victorious against China in their second pool B match of Women's Hockey World Cup at Amstelveen on Tuesday.

BHOPAL: On July 6, crores of Madhya Pradesh voters will elect their local government bodies. Originally elections were to be held in 2020 but they were delayed because of Covid-19. The term of all the local bodies expired in 2019. During the gap, affairs of local bodies were governed by officials.

New Delhi: In an edge of the seat contest India and England lived up to the billing as they played a high-voltage 1-1 in their campaign opener in their pool B match of the Women's Hockey World Cup at Wenger Hockey Stadium, Amstelveen on Sunday.

New Delhi: On a day of mixed fortunes for the Indian pugilists, World Championships bronze medallist Jamuna Boro put up another clinical performance overpowering Kazakhstan’s Anel Sakysh to become the fourth -Indian to enter the finals of Elorda cup in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on Sunday.

New Delhi: Rattled by massive age-fudging scandal which hit Yonex-Sunrise All India U-13 tournament Badminton Association of India (BAI) has gone on damage control drive asserting that it will not tolerate any such act and will take strict action against those who were involved in this scam.

New Delhi: India will field three teams in the Open section after getting a last-minute entry to register their highest-ever participation at the 44th Chess Olympiad scheduled to be held at Mahabalipuram from July 28 to August 10.