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Dusseldorf: The World No. 3 Germany side trounced visiting Indian Women's Hockey Team 5-0 in their first match of the four-match tour here in Dusseldorf on Saturday.

Bambolim, Goa: Their playoff spots may have been secured but the final game of the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) League stage will witness the clash of the titans as Mumbai City and Mohun Bagan battle it out for their first League Winners Shield crown at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim on Sunday.

In the second stage of the first phase of India’s vaccination drive commencing on March 1, 2021, the vaccines would be available for elders above 60 years of age, and the persons above 45 years with comorbidities in both the government and private hospitals across the country. The vaccines would be available in government facilities free of cost, but the beneficiaries would have to pay the costs at private facilities, the cost of which is yet to be decided. The private sector is being given a larger role in this stage. However, the success of this stage is highly dependent on overcoming the problems of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ and removing the hurdles in easily getting vaccinated.

For a long time after the first general elections, most of the state governments were led by the Congress. In 2021t the Puducherry government has fallen, leaving the Congress without any government in South India after many decades.

New Delhi: A confident Indian hockey team is all-set to take on world No. 6 Germany in the first of their 4-match tour to Europe at Krefeld on 28 February.

New Delhi: Riding on Angad Bajwa's superb showing, Indian Skeet team beat Kazakhstan to win a bronze medal at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Shotgun stage, in Cairo, Egypt.

An old dichotomy that’s haunted many Democratic administrations in USA—pushing ostensibly progressive economic and social policies at home, While pursuing imperialist aims abroad—has returned.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Self goals are not uncommon in the game of political soccer. But two self goals in quick succession? That rare feat has been achieved by the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF). It is as if the Government, which is facing the crucial Assembly elections less than one and a half months away, has been consumed by a death wish. In the process, it has lost the momentum generated by the splendid victory in the local body election and the feel good factor accruing there-from. The Election Commission has in the meantime announced the date for the Assembly elections in five states including Kerala. And the poll in the State will be held on April 6.

West Bengal has been witness to political violence for decades. In fact the political violence has been endemic in the state. The worst phase of violence that the state observed was in sixties and seventies when hundreds of students and youths lost their lives to police bullets or class war between warring left groups and parties, apart from encounters with the state police.

Urban migration has been blamed for many of the problems the country is facing today, both in the urban and rural India. But despite all the negatives, urban migration has pulled up large sections of rural populations out of poverty. This adds a new undetermined dimension to the large-scale reverse migration of workers in the wake of the pandemic and the lockdown, which the government has failed miserably to address so far irrespective of the tall claims made by government functionaries.