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New Delhi: Chief coach Graham Reid has exhorted the Indian hockey team to raise the bar saying, "Bronze medal at the Olympics after 41 years is great, but there is a lot of potentials we need to unlock and display."

The American blues musician, Arley “Buster” Benton’s famed number Money Is the Name of the Game has been the venerated adage of business pundits from the time of the Greco-Roman slave economy, through the tyrannical age of the ‘Industrial Revolution’ to the current age of neoliberal capitalism.

In a recent appraisal meeting with NHAI, flagging the issue of delay in projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Cabinet Secretary to prepare a dossier of babus who were responsible for the delay in projects. This unfolded Prime Minister’s frustration with bureaucracy and a warning to deal with babus with iron hands who are engulfed by red tape, which caused his reforms to fail, denying windfalls to the people.

Junior Minister for Rural Development in the central government, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ruled out in parliament any increase in the amount of monthly pension given by the centre to the elderly under the National Social Assistance Programme (The Telegraph, August 22). The amount currently being given to each beneficiary under this programme is a princely sum of Rs 200 per month for persons between ages 60 and 79, and Rs 500 per month for persons of 80years and above!

University of Delhi has been ravaged by a recent controversy pertaining to the revised syllabi of a few departments — namely, English, History, Political Science and Sociology. On August 24, 2021, the Academic Council, the highest statutory body on academic matters, approved syllabi of the aforesaid departments with arbitrary additions/deletions suggested by an ‘Oversight Committee’ which acted as an extra-statutory authority on academic matters despite having no member from the concerned departments.

One can’t fail to see people reeling under anguish, and even the BJP politicians are cutting a sorry figure when confronted by the miserable conditions of the people due to fear of political backlash, but the opposition parties are in utter disarray. They seem to fail in overcoming too complex a psychological reason that remains a hurdle in their way of unity despite their leadership feeling the need of such unity in the present socio-politico-economic conditions of India. A bigger responsibility of course lies with the INC, the largest political party in opposition, but its politicians are vertically split, from top to bottom, in their personal greed due to their grave assessment errors regarding their prospect of gains. BJP leadership is under great stress on account of people’s anguish on the ground, but happy to see the utterly scattered opposition.

Gurugram: Teenage pro Jahanvi Bakshi and amateur Sneha Singh were tied for the lead after at the end of the marathon second day of the seventh leg of the Hero WPGT at the DLF Golf & Country Club, here on Thursday.

Hyderabad: Ludhiana’s Pukhraj Singh Gill and Gurugram’s Manu Gandas struck scores of seven-under 64 to hold the joint first-round lead as the PGTI resumed its 2020-2021 season with the Golconda Masters Telangana Open at the Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA) course.

Petrol sells at Rs 100 at many places across the country. In those places where the price hasn’t yet crossed Rs 100, petrol sells near to it. Prices of diesel too are high. It now sells near to Rs 90 — in cities like Mumbai, it sells near to Rs 100. If this isn’t enough domestic LPG cylinders prices have been rising.

It’s embarrassing to watch and listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s spokespersons and Modi’s ‘friendly Media’ cohorts trying desperately to establish a narrative to rationalize Modi’s decision to ‘engage’ with Taliban “terrorists”. Till before Tuesday evening, BJP spokespersons stuck with the ‘terrorists’ label for the Taliban usurpers of Afghanistan, but, since then, there’s disengagement from the word ‘terrorists’ vis a vis the Taliban.