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Dusseldorf: India once again impressed in defence but couldn’t stop Germany from winning their third consecutive game in the four-match Women Hockey series here in Dusseldorf on Monday.

New Delhi: Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom and World Championship bronze medallist Manish Kaushik received easy draw in their opening matches at the Boxam International Tournament to be held in Castellon, Spain.

New Delhi: Manisha Keer, failed to make qualify for the final round but, recorded a best ever finish at an International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun stage, ending seventh in the Women’s Trap competition on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt.

New Delhi: Young paddler Sreeja Akula overpowered a higher ranked opponent to progress into the last round of the women's singles qualifiers alongside Manika Batra at the WTT Contender in Doha on Tuesday.

New Delhi: National Coach Igor Stimac on Tuesday named 35- probables, including ten new faces, for the Indian National Team’s forthcoming back-to-back International Friendlies against Oman and UAE, scheduled to be held in Dubai, UAE on March 25 and March 29 respectively.

On Thursday, February 25th, the government notified new rules under the Information Technology (IT) Act dubbed the ‘Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code’. These rules introduced a number of guidelines for social media and Over The Top (OTT) platforms which make such companies more accountable to the government and law enforcement authorities.

An unprecedented gesture of international solidarity with the three-month long farmers’ struggle is eloquently reflected in an 800-plus word statement by over hundred labour, community and civil society organisations the world over through a full-page advertisement in Toronto Star on 27 February in English and French. “The farmers’ agitation for the repeal of the pro-corporate farm laws has become the largest and longest sustained non-violent movement in Indian history, surpassing Mahatma Gandhi’s historic Dandi March against the abhorrent Salt Law of the British colonial regime.”

The Brigade rally organised by the left parties and the Congress on Sunday was indeed massive. This was for the first time that the Left and the Congress held a joint election rally in Kolkata in recent years. But equally, this was the first occasion for the CPI(M) to legitimize the official participation of a Muslim group known for its fundamentalist programmes.

Farmers and workers have started joining hands against the BJP which is seen by most of them as their enemy no.1. The agitating farmers’ unions against the three farm laws and the 10 central trade unions against the four labour codes have decided to launch a joint action plan against the BJP during the Vidhan Sabha elections of the five states - Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Kerala. It is seen as significant political move that is potentially damaging to the electoral prospects of the BJP.

Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) leaving the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was only a matter of time as the latter clearly stated that it won’t renew its alliance with the former. The saffron party allied with United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) — BPF’s rival in the Bodoland region — last year by choosing over its then existing ally BPF to form the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). It was this decision of the saffron party that BPF wasn’t able to form the council for the first time in the last 15 years.