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New Delhi: Indian shooters flop show continued as two trap mixed teams fell by the way sides at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun stage in Cairo,

New Delhi: It was day of mixed luck for Indian paddlers as Achanta Sharath Kamal opened his campaign season with an impressive victory while Gnanasekaran Sathiyan, crashed out in the opening round of the World Table Tennis Contender at Doha.

New Delhi: The World Championships bronze medallist Manish Kaushik (63Kg) and Mohammed Husamuddin (57kg) chalked out easy victories over their rivals to storm into the quarter finals of the Boxam International Tournament in Castellon, Spain.

Going on 86 years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt made the most pro-union statement ever uttered by an American president. Joe Biden just broke FDR’s record.

Recipient of India’s second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan, Braj Basi Lal, is nearing 100. He is by profession an archaeologist. He began his education as student of Sanskrit, having obtained masters degree from Allahabad University. He later switched over to archaeology; initially, worked in Taxila and later at Harappa. He took a controversial stance in Ayodhya, claiming to have found the remains of a Hindu columned temple beneath the subsequently demolished mosque. He worked as an archaeologist for about 50 years.

BHOPAL: "No new taxes, no relief" with this headline most of the newspapers published the news of budget presented by Madhya Pradesh finance minister Jagdish Devda. Contrary to public expectations over relief in VAT on petrol and diesel, he presented a Rs. 2,41,375 crore budget with a deficit of Rs. 52,266 crore.

Question: What to make of the Supreme Court when it asked a rapist 'are you ready to marry the girl you raped, then possibly you can walk free with the trophy bride?'Of course, the top court did not ask in so many words, but that's about the gist of the astonishing offer. And, mind you, the criminal on escape row, if he couldn't believe his ears, replied rather regretfully, 'Yes, your lordships, I would marry her except that I am now regretfully a married man!'

It is indeed baffling to consider whether Chief Justice S A Bobde made his ‘offer’ to an accused rapist to grant him protection if he agreed to marry his victim after due consideration of the consequences of his offer or whether it was a spur of the moment remark. If it was a premeditated suggestion, the approach of flexibility needs to be appreciated, but his solution is outlandish and worse than the crime.

It was a coincidence that on the day while addressing an election rally in West Bengal’s Malda, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was blaming the TMC government for poor law and order situation in the state, the saffron criminals in his own state were brutally assassinating the father of the poor dalit girl who was raped and killed barely a month back in Hathras by them. Once again his police was proved to be inactive as even after knowing of the intentions of the killer it did not arrest them and save the poor father from being killed by the marauders.

The national capital is the face of a country, an index that points towards the real condition of the people, their hopes and frustrations, and the direction of psyche of the nation. Delhi civic bypolls results are nothing less than an evidence of the chagrin under which the people of Delhi have been reeling for quite some time. The people have not only totally rejected the BJP, but have served it a humiliating defeat. They rather put four of the five seats into the AAP’s bag, and the fifth to the Congress. It has kindled some new hope for the opposition, and has put the BJP in great distress on the eve of the assembly election for the five politically sensitive states.