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Vasco, Goa: Playing an all out attacking game, Hyderabad outclassed Kerala Blasters 4-0 in the Hero Indian Super League at the Tilak Maidan Stadium on Tuesday.

Pune: Tvesa Malik and Gaurika Bishnoi’s return to action for the fourth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour will enhance the intensity of the competition as another new high of 38 starters will be achieved this week at the Poona Club Golf Course. The fourth leg in 2021, which will be combined with the nine legs held in 2020 for a consolidated Hero Order of Merit, has on offer Rs 10 lakhs.

Ahmedabad: Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow, a five-time winner on the tour, went on a rampage to produce a course-record equaling nine-under-63 on day one of the Gujarat Open Golf Championship.

New Delhi: The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on Tuesday named a 57-member strong squad for the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage, scheduled to be held from 18-29 March at Dr Karni Singh Shooting range here.

Anyone in India against the ruling establishment is under threat of being booked under sedition and put into jail by the government. The spurt in sedition cases under Narendra Modi’s rule has put a large number of people under intimidation who are now avoiding expressing their dissent even on the wrongs committed by the government authorities. It is increasingly being felt that one should keep silent on government’s affairs or else face the consequences, even if one doesn’t commit any crime. People seem to be entirely on sweet will of the government, and any of one’s disagreement or dissent expressed in words or visual imageries can be treated as seditious, as if there is no other appropriate section in the India Penal Code or other laws relating to crime, and that has threatened even the birthrights of a human being.

On January 28, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator, Michael Waltz, introduced into the Congress a new bill dedicated to smashing democracy in Venezuela, cumbersomely entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime (BOLIVAR) Act.”

Upsurge of the kisan mahasammelans on massive scale in Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab and broadening the base of the farmers’ movement has not only unnerved the RSS leadership but has also sharpened the contradiction between the Sangh and the Modi government.

Young climate activist Disha Ravi is in a barred cell somewhere in the labyrinth of the Delhi Police. What do the police want her to confess to? The charges levelled against her speak of sedition, conspiracy and spreading hatred. The question is, what exactly does ‘remand to police custody’ amount to? What interrogation methods are used by the police? Are accused denied food, water; are they deprived of sleep? Movies tell harrowing tales of people in police custody. Member of Parliament Sadhvi Pragya, who was in police custody, has given graphic details of ‘custodial interrogation.’ Is Disha Ravi getting a taste of Sadhvi Pragya's experience?

Protests led by hundreds of farmer groups at the different borders of Delhi, from Singhu to Ghazipur are going strong. The farmers are battling the might of the Indian State that has almost cut them off from the rest of the city and the country — by layers of barricading, planting nails on the roads, cutting off water and electricity, and heavy patrolling by paramilitary forces. This is a government at war with its own people — first civil rights activists, then university students, followed by journalists and now our farmers.

Will the well -known poll strategist Prashant Kishor become an asset or a liability in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls for the ruling Trinamool Congress? Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee engaged him to help her to perform a hat trick. She had almost decimated the Left parties and the Congress in the past decade. This time, Mamata will be up against the emerging BJP, which wants to wrest the state.