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Chennai: Chennai veterans Rajini Krishnan and Jagan Kumar stamped their class with a double each in the two premium categories as did young Alwin Sundar in the Novice class while Ryhana Bee staged a winning comeback in the Girls section as the first round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship concluded at the MMRT, here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Indian pugilists dominated the ring as favourite Bishwamitra Chongtham (51kg) along with three compatriots recorded facile victories over their respective rivals to enter the semi-finals on the second day of the ASBC Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai.

Chennai: Defending champion Jagan Kumar (TVS Racing) did as he pleased on his super quick Apache RTR 160 bike to win the premium Pro-Stock 165cc Open race in the first round of the MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Saturday.

New Delhi: It was a day of mixed fortunes for Indian pugilists as six of them scored easy victories while three fell by the wayside on an opening day at the ASBC Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai.

Communist Party of Pakistan general secretary Imdad Qazi warned Wednesday of the serious consequences of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, which he said would boost jihadist groups across the region.

The alacrity shown by the CBI in responding to the Calcutta High Court’s order to probe the post poll cases of murder, attempt to murder and rape which took place in Bengal is quite enlightening. This has been something unusual for the CBI as the agency often shows its reluctance or buys time for taking any new case.

We have been relieved a little. The predicted third wave of COVID-19 did not strike in mid-August and is not likely to strike this month. It is delayed, but not averted altogether. The risk is still there with further opening up of several activities and people are seen not following the covid-appropriate behaviour while R-factor is still high. Delta variant remains dominant, and we have still about 40 crore vulnerable people devoid of immunity, because they are neither vaccinated, nor have recovered from previous infection. No new variant has yet found, but the delta and delta+ variants are reported escaping immunity, has become a matter of concern.

With the Taliban entering the outlying areas in Kabul on Sunday and issuing a formal declaration that they do not intend to conduct a witch-hunt against those with the Islamic Republic Government while it waited for the completion of a ‘transition process’, and amid parallel reports of efforts to form a transitional or interim government for 6 months, the wheel has come full circle on the post-9/11 US ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan since 2001 and the country’s experiment with an Islamic republic in 2004.

New Delhi: Ending years of squabbles, the All-India Chess Federation and the Chess Association of India (CAI) on Saturday merged into one single entity to administer the sport in the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi often shrugs off the criticism that the rich have become richer and the poor poorer under his government as political grandstanding by opponents. But every new piece of information that is emerging on various aspects of the economy, particularly relating to money and investment, suggests that the devastation caused by the Covid pandemic, mostly due to mismanagement and the faulty policies of the government, has sidestepped the rich, who continue to flourish under the Modi dispensation. It is one thing for Modi to keep harping on his rural initiatives, expressed in all sorts of acronyms combining the fancy PM adjunct, but the real hard fact is that his policies have benefited the rich most and if anything the poor has become worse off.