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New Delhi: India will bid for the next available Chess Olympiad and a "foolproof bid would be submitted to bag the coveted world event as and when the process would begin."

Dubai: Teenaged High Jumpers Praveen Kumar and Nishad Kumar produced personal best jumps to take a gold each and set new Asian records as the as the curtains came down on the 12th Fazza International Championships – Dubai 2021 World Para Athletics Grand Prix here on Saturday evening.

Vasco, Goa: Unbeaten in last six games NorthEast United eye playoff berth as they take on bottom placed Odisha in their Hero Indian Super League fixture at the Tilak Maidan Stadium on Sunday. A win will go a long way in helping them achieve that.

Bambolim, Goa: There were just a few minutes left in the game and Goa needed a goal. And Ishan Pandita duly delivered!

Fatorda, Goa: Mohun Bagan have a chance to go clear at the top, if only for a short period of time. All Antonio Habas' team has to do is secure three points when they take on Jamshedpur at the Fatorda Stadium on Sunday.

When we hear about China debarring BBC from airing its world news in the country, we feel sorry for both the broadcaster and indignation at the challenge to the cherished freedom of expression. This is very much the same when the world hears about attempts by our own government to arm-twist social media platforms. Obviously, Beijing has a grudge against the British for the revocation of the licence grated to state-owned state-owned broadcaster China Global Television Network's (CGTN) to broadcast in the UK. But it has attributed the drastic action to the violation of China’s reporting guidelines, just as we have justified the threat to social media giants for failure to follow Indian laws.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his government’s agricultural reform laws by invoking Chaudhary Charan Singh and pointing to the “dayaniya sthiti (sorry plight)” of marginal farmers. These below-one-hectare cultivators accounted for 51 per cent of India’s total operational holdings in 1970-71, a share that crossed 68 per cent in the last 2015-16 Agriculture Census.

Rahul Gandhi loves stirring up the hornet’s nest. And you can forgive Prime Minister Narendra Modi for thinking that Rahul has a bee in his bonnet. At times Rahul does give the impression he’s all over the place. That’s till Modi loses track and Modi is all over the place. Like when Rahul Gandhi is convinced Modi and his government have mortgaged India’s strategic interests to China. Then, the BJP and Modi cannot escape from some finger-pointing.

It has now been around one and a half year that the Narendra Modi led BJP government has scrapped the special status of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state — which presently is a union territory — by abrogating Article 370. There have been signs of normalcy returning to the valley — and 4G services are now restored too by the Centre.

Having lost the first electoral bout to weaken the Trinamool Congress and its leader Mamata Banerjee by engineering massive split, the BJP is now planning to implement its second plan to project the election as the war between Narendra Modi’s “development model” and Mamata Banerjee’s “destruction model”. The indication to it was dropped by Narendra Modi himself when just two days back decried her governance and accused Mamata of having no “mamata” (sympathy) for people.