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New Delhi: India is left with no choice or alternative, they have to win against Ireland to stay alive in the Women's Olympic competition on Thursday.

New Delhi: Putting behind couple of poor performance, Manu Bhaker fired superb 292 out of 300 and stayed in contention as she was placed fifth after the first precision round of qualifying in the Women’s 25M Pistol, of the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics Shooting competitions at the Asaka Shooting range.

The concept of democracy, which had promised equal rights and voice for the voiceless and to act as a human rights watchdog to check injustice and atrocities in totalitarian and autocratic regimes, has failed to ensure equality for minorities even in the world’s largest democracy.

Pedro Castillo was finally sworn in as Peruvian president on July 28 on the 200th anniversary of the Andean country’s independence from Spain. With this, the Latin American nation entered a new era to be ruled by a self proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who has promised to impart a radical shift to the tottering economy of the country by doing away with the pro-rich policies which have dominated Peru for decades.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken doesn’t know much about the people of the region he visited. South Asia abounds with the weirdo. The day before Blinken arrived, five Pakistani men gang-raped a goat and murdered it before they fled. Last heard the police were hunting for them. At the time Blinken was meeting ‘Civil Society’ in New Delhi. And Al Jazeera was saying that India’s civil society is angrier than Indra at India’s brazen trampling of human rights.

Majority of working households in India have been undergoing an unprecedented hardship ever since countrywide lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. They were largely uncovered by any social security schemes on the one hand and only 28 per cent of them had salary earning or regular wage – in rural areas only 12.9 per cent and in urban areas 41.3 per cent. About 14.7 per cent households in the urban areas and 9.1 per cent in the rural areas did not have any income from economic activities.

Will the winged horse ever get rooted? Will it ever be able to boast of a key to treasure of truth? Truth that appeared in the Lok Sabha shackled in untruths? Truth that is the ultimate objective for the Parliament to deliver to people for the cause of democracy?

The first week of the monsoon session of parliament has revealed a lot about the character of the Modi government. In the space of a few days, the government went on record with two untruths. The first was the equivocal statement by the minister of information technology refuting the media reports about the use of the Pegasus spyware in India and blandly asserting that “No unauthorised surveillance has taken place”.

New Delhi: Playing an all-out attacking game India overpowered defending champion Argentina 3-1 for their third win in their fourth Pool A encounter to assure themselves a place in the quarter finals of the Men's Olympic Hockey competition at the Oi Stadium on Thursday.

The prevalent unrest in the Kashmir Valley for two years since the NaMo government converted the only Muslim majority state into the union territory in August 2019, the consequent violence and the rigidity of the security forces in dealing with masses demands a different approach. The government and people have to decide between having only territory as integral part and also on winning over the residents.