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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an intricate political enigma. Very few have been able to read it through variety of facets of his personality as the human being and as an astute politician that emerged in two decades of his personality, thirteen years as the Gujarat chief minister and last seven years as the Prime Minister. He was merely a backroom boy in the party office for twenty years and few came to know of his ability and his organizing capacity during the Advani’s Rathyatra through seven states from Somnath to Ayodhya in 1990. Advani may have been impressed by the unique quality of his temper of not getting inflated by praise or be cast down by criticism. It may have prompted Advani to push forward his name as the potential leader of Gujarat to replace the state chief minister Keshubhai Patel.

Bambolim, Goa: With nothing at stake, the contest turned out to be a 11-goal thriller as Odisha beat East Bengal 6-5 while setting up the all-time Hero Indian Super League (ISL) record for the most goals in a match at the GMC Bambolim Stadium on Saturday.

New Delhi: Deepak Kumar (52kg) failed to clear the last hurdle as he lost the final face-off in a split decision against two times European Champion and Bulgaria’s Daniel Asenov 3-2 and had to be content with a silver medal at the 72nd Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria on Saturday.

Fatorda, Goa: Goa and Hyderabad will fight it out for the final playoff berth in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium here on Sunday.

The schedule of 2021 state polls has been notified on the heels of another round of project announcements by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tamil Nadu on a second visit to the State on February 25. The same day, he launched BJP poll campaign for Tamil Nadu from Coimbatore. (Tamil Nadu and Kerala will have one-day poll on April 6 and counting on May 2.)

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.