Pravasi Bharatiya Divas: Engaging The Indian Diaspora Is A Must

The Indian Diaspora has been able to carve a niche in their adopted countries as a result of their talent, perseverance and hardworking nature, asserts Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Bureaucratic reshuffle: Coal secy shunted out; 19 new babus appointed

Coal Secretary Anil Swarup was appointed school education secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effective from Wednesday. As many as 19 new secretaries have been appointed in......

Pradip Tripathi moves to Cabinet Secretariat as govt effects major bureaucratic rejig

Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday. A......

Wrestlers' meeting with sports minister Thakur inconclusive

IMAGE: India's top wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Ravi Dahiya, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat refused to back down from their demand that the government immediately disband the Wrestling Federation of......

UWW suspends Bajrang; SAI approves his training stint but wrestler cancels...

Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Wrestling's world governing body UWW has suspended Bajrang Punia till the end of this year following NADA's decision to hand him a provisional suspension for......

Women's Asian Champions Trophy: Nitish unveils logo, mascot

IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar unveils the logo for the Women's Asian Champions Trophy alongside Indian women's team captain Selema Tete and vice-captain Navneet Kaur, on Saturday.......

Sports Minister felicitates triumphant Paralympians

IMAGE: Avani Lekhara is felicitated by Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and former Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday. Photograph: Office of Anurag Thakur/Twitter Sports Minister Anurag Thakur......

India's contingent checks in at Tokyo Games Village

Photograph and video: Kind courtesy SAI Media/Twitter In high spirits and completely focussed on their goals, the first batch of India's 88-strong Olympic-bound contingent reached here on......