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New Delhi: Hockey midfielder Vivek Sagar Prasad, shortlisted for the FIH Rising Star of the Year Awards 2020-21.for the second time, has described this nomination as "overwhelming."

New Delhi: Vishvanath Suresh (48kg) Vanshraj (64kg), Daksh Singh (67kg) and Jaydeep Rawat (71kg) chalked out facile victories to advance into the semi-finals, confirming their medals, on the fourth day of the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai, the Last-4 stage and confirm medals for the country.

Nine “moderate” House Democrats have joined powerful conservative forces trying to undo President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar domestic agenda.

The Centre’s delay in implementing the Code on Wages (CW) and the other three labour codes, viz. the Industrial Relations Code (IRC), the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSHWCC) and the Code on Social Security (CSS), indicates that they will not be implemented even by October this year.

A major development in recent weeks in the financial sector has gone largely unnoticed – Reserve Bank of India’s announcement that the central bank is considering phased introduction of its own digital currency and the Modi government’s proposal to come out with a legislation to regulate virtual currency in the country.

Shadab Chouhan, spokesperson of Peace Party, an ally of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, and Majid Hyderi, a Kashmiri and a journalist, are two of a kind. Regulars on “national television”, which is a conglomeration of the electronic news media – almost all of them beholden to the Modi Government – Shadab and Hyderi daily vociferously help BJP/RSS consolidate the Hindutva vote by helping polarize the electorate with their loud talk.

After accomplishing their mission of creating communal divide in the urban areas and polarising the Hindus on the Hindutva plank by raising the slogan of Hindutva in danger, the RSS has launched its ambitious agenda of dividing the Hindus and Muslims in rural India by denigrating the character of the peasant movements across the country.

The world has been talking about a lost generation for quite some time. International institutions like OECD and UNICEF have categorically asked governments across the globe not to delay opening of educational institutions and provided a roadmap how to bring students safely back to their classes. In India’s context, a parliamentary panel had given its reports and recommendation a fortnight ago on August 6, 2021 in this regard, which seems failed to stir the Modi government. Decisions are being taken to open educational institutions, but majority of the recommendations are ignored, while there is no initiatives of proper planning. Union government is talking big, but clearly sluggish in action.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has begun new efforts to unite the opposition. She did so in 2004 and formed a coalition government (UPA) fighting against the mighty Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee when she was considered almost a novice in politics. She did so when the BJP was on a high with its 'India shining' campaign.

COVID-19 has brought economic and social crises to much of the world, and nowhere more than the Third World, where poor infrastructure, poverty, resource export dependence, inequality, and lack of accountability are endemic. Protests against scarcity, structural violence, police brutality, and corruption erupted everywhere from the United States to Colombia, Haiti, Brazil, Guatemala, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina, just to mention a few. That unrest in Latin America rarely merited notice in the US news media — until it happened in Cuba.