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Fatorda, Goa: As the Kolkata derby marks its 100th year — the first one came in the Cooch Behar Cup in 1921 — East Bengal and Mohun Bagan find themselves in contrasting positions in the Hero Indian Super League table.

The spring is here. Vasant Panchami announces every year the end of the winter and onset of the spring. It came after the longest lock down of ten months and 21 days. Though strict regulations for observation by every resident was imposed from the last week of March 2020, and were relaxed for the last four months, life had not returned fully to the regular routines.

As ruling AIADMK goes into high gear for a third consecutive win in the April-May Assembly poll, with a thunderous publicity blitz for its daily quota of schemes and vote-catching devices, buttressed by Prime Minister Modi's project investment plans, Tamil Nadu has turned to battle mode.

There is a mass upsurge in Myanmar (Burma) against the military takeover. People from all walks of life have been out on the streets in the past fortnight protesting against the brutal suppression of democracy.

The new Biden administration may soon ease regulations enforcing the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. However, if Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden’s new bill, the U.S.-Cuba Trade Act of 2021, becomes law, the blockade itself will disappear. The two countries’ embassies in Havana and Washington are dysfunctional. No normal relations will be obtained until they are fully operative. A report recently issued by the Washington-based National Security Archive (NSA) explores circumstances through which the embassies are disabled. The NSA is a truth-telling organization that monitors U.S. conduct of international affairs by reviewing declassified U.S. government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

After first elections in 1952, the Communist Party of India emerged as the main opposition party. It was the task of nation building that faced both the opposition and the Congress that had formed the government. Both together decided to follow the Constitution and opted for a democratic system. With a composite culture, preserving unity in diversity, socialism and secularism, the state apparatus was formed. Constitution was already framed, adopted and put to practice that promised equality, liberty and fundamental rights to all. The right to vote was for all adults, irrespective of their community, caste, language, gender and region. They were also equal to law. The experts were consulted for a blue print to revive economy. Five year plans were prepared.

The relentless increase in the prices of petrol and diesel is adding to the problems of the people already burdened by the pandemic woes of joblessness and loss of incomes.

From Rupan Deol Bajaj to Priya Ramani has been a long journey of the law. Two women, separated by 16 years, two different strategies, but with a common mission—to hold power to account when it comes to sexual harassment. Rupan Deol Bajaj was demonised by the media for having taken up an issue that was “trivial” against a man considered a national hero, the late KPS Gill, who had put down terrorism in Punjab, never mind if it was done through extrajudicial killings.

The humiliating defeat of the BJP and the Akalis in Punjab civic body polls is not merely a small political happening of the state politics, but is a significant one for the national politics of the country. Though, making a clean sweep by the Congress winning six of the seven municipal corporations and emerging as the single largest party in the seventh, is a great boost to the Congress in the state, it has a potential push up the morale of the Congress workers in other states as well.

Fatorda, Goa: Goa got a much-needed victory, overcoming Odisha 3-1 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here tonight.