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Chennai: Bengaluru’s Hemanth Mudappa (Mantra Racing) set up g two new records along with a golden double to clinch his ninth title, and fifth consecutive, at the third and final round of the Indian National Drag Racing Championship.

Kanpur: Young Grandmasters Arjun Erigaisi (Telangana) and D Gukesh (TN) with 5.5 points each shared the lead at the end of sixth round matches of the MPL 58th Senior National Chess Championship here at Ganges on Monday.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Monday named 28- Probables for their final phase of preparations ahead of the FIH Junior Women's World Cup to be held in South Africa from 1 April.

The outcome of the Global Forum for Human-centred Recovery must be taken seriously by the Modi government which is preparing to roll out the profit oriented labour reforms in 2022, in the form of four labour codes, at a time when India urgently needs to address the dangerous level of inequalities in the country exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent distortion in the labour market.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is both a humanitarian tragedy and an economic disaster. Something is dangerously wrong in a world where its second largest oil producer is now a pariah state and will soon be crippled once its banks are ejected from SWIFT.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the fierce battle between the two nations for the last 5 days have strengthened the worst fears of our times. It seems that a war is never a done thing; it’s always possible. But what’s truly devastating is the spectre of nuclear war and Russia’s ability to practically finish the entire planet with over 6000 nuclear heads it has. Not that Russia alone has this nasty claim to notoriety. Even the West has almost an equal amount of nuclear arsenal and it only means that the world’s existence is doubly as precarious.

Indian diplomacy has shown a great character and maturity by not taking sides in the Ukraine crisis in the face of a warlike situation there involving the US-led NATO and Russia. All the key actors engaged in building a highly belligerent situation over Ukraine are some of India’s best friends. They include Russia, the US, NATO members and, of course, Ukraine. India is trying its best to get the tension defused diplomatically. Prime Minister Narendra Modi already spoke with President Vladimir Putin. The high tension between Russia and Ukraine needs to be defused fast through diplomacy and discussion. Both sides must give up fire power and go for a lusting truce.

Russia has been thrown out of what is called the “SWIFT” system, which is a kind of global gmail network among banks to undertake their funds transactions securely. Exclusion from this network would mean that Russian banks would not be able to carry out their normal international financial transactions with other banks.

Rural Odisha isn’t wasting time on Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Instead, the grassroots voted for the Biju Janata Dal, the Odisha political party with a dead man’s name for mascot. Biju Patnaik was Chief Minister and incumbent Chief Minister Navin Patnaik’s father. But while Narendra Modi goes hammer and tong against dynasties everywhere, he baulks at mentioning Odisha’s reigning pater-familias.

It is really amusing that there is a raging tug-of-war between two national parties, Congress and BJP over who finished poor 3rd or 4th in the recently held Tamil Nadu urban local body elections where none of the party made it to single corporation even though they managed to get a few seats. In fact these two parties have relegated as marginal players in the state elections, be it local body, assembly or Lok Sabha elections.