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New Delhi: To stay alive for quarterfinal berth Indian Women's Hockey Team will have to put up a better show on against Germany in their second match of Pool A in Olympic competition at the Oi Stadium on Monday.

New Delhi: Playing with clinical efficiency Australia decimated India 7-1 for their second successive win in the Pool 'A' Olympic Hockey match at the Oi Stadium In Tokyo on Sunday.

New Delhi: It was another poor day for Indian shooters at Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.

New Delhi: Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal (Women’s 10M Air Pistol) Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar (Men’s 10M Air Rifle) will be seen in action in the Tokyo Olympic Games Shooting competition on Sunday.

Veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh brought off some incredible saves to enable India pip spirited New Zealand 3-2 in a pool A Hockey match that went down to the wire. The eight-time winners thus opened their Olympic campaign note collecting full three points on Saturday.

New Delhi: Ranked World number one Saurabh Chaudhary finished a creditable seventh in the 10M Air Pistol, but three other Indians in the fray failed to make the cut for the last eight in their respective events in the Shooting competition of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.

The sedition law is once again under fire. This is not for the first time that the sedition law is in the proverbial eye of the storm. The legal history of independent India shows that the sedition law (that is, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code), owing to its colonial provenance, vague definition, draconian nature of the punishment, and lack of procedural safeguards has been a cause célèbre. Given this, the Law Commission of India, in its 2018 consultation paper on sedition even noted that it is time to re-think or repeal section 124A.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. It is the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) which calls the shots in the United Democratic Front (UDF). The Front may be led by the Congress. But when it comes to taking decisions on crucial matters, it is the IUML which has the last word. Congress leaders may deny it. But that is the stark reality.

Jesuit priest-cum-tribal rights activist, 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy’s death in a Mumbai hospital while still in judicial custody led to an outpouring of grief, with even rightwing media afraid they might step on toes if they cast wide the mildest of opprobrium. It was funny reading their reluctant praise of the much-reviled ‘Urban Naxal’.

The condition of the jobless people in India was already precarious before the COVID-19 struck the country and lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. It has been worsening since then. Unemployment rate remains high and prospects of regaining lost jobs or getting new one is low causing deterioration in mental health of the jobless to such an extent that they are committing suicides. Incidents of suicides are more frequently appearing in media indicating that Modi government’s programmes are failing to mitigate the unemployment crisis.