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Goa: Goa face Chennaiyin in the second leg of the Hero Indian Super League Semi-Finals, looking to overturn the 4-1 deficit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Goa on Saturday.

New Delhi: Putting up a fiery performance Vikas Krishan (69kg) dismatled Kyrgyzstan’s Nursultan Mamataly 5-0 to enter the quarter finals at the Asian/Oceanian Olympic Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan today.

The euphoria of Indians getting fair share in the Boris cabinet appears to have short lived, with one of the prominent faces Priti Patel getting a rough treatment from the opposition as well as the media for her abrasive mannerism.

The apparently stunning Super Tuesday with buoyancy in favour of Joe Biden notwithstanding, the sea-saw battle for the nomination of Democratic Party for the US presidential contest in November seems whirling in a nebula. Founding editor of Brussels-based Politico John Hariss strikes an ethical chord when he points at Bernie Sanders’ “consistency and passion” in viewing politics as “a clash of interests which casts ‘the people’ as more of an abstraction, rather than connecting with or projecting empathy toward individual people with their flesh-and-blood problems”, a ‘dynamic’ that may be crucial during the balance of March.

The democratic psyche of India must be ashamed of the government led by RSS-BJP. Their unwarranted and adamant reluctance to allow debate on communal riots in Delhi, in both houses of the Parliament speaks a lot about their abetment in the riots. The communal frenzy ignited by the ruling party and its top-ranking leaders has stolen the lives of 47 innocent people as per official reports itself. The damages it caused on the houses, shops, schools and factories are also very large. Hundreds of men, women and children in the families of the deceased, thousands who have lost houses, shops and the means of livelihood are passing through days of unexplainable pain and agony. Promises of compensation and rehabilitation for them still remain a distant dream.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a capital crime that the people of Kerala would take a long time to recover from. The people of Thiruvananthapuram woke up to a normal day on March 4, 2020, little realising what was in store for them in a few hours. An altercation between private bus workers and the staff of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) snowballed into a major confrontation which convulsed the Kerala capital for over five hours.

In the season for global virus infection, India’s financial sector is facing the prospect of another kind of a virus. The financial intermediaries have been facing serious difficulties for the last several years, including the rising levels of non-performing assets of public sector banks and earlier last year the existential threat to the non-banking financial companies following the bankruptcy of the biggest of them.

Last week, Bernie Sanders was forecast to have a 60 per cent chance of going to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee this summer with a plurality of pledged delegates; Joe Biden had around a 30 per cent chance. After Super Tuesday, those odds have flipped. The one constant: No one is on track to win a majority of delegates, and this contest will carry on for months. Other takeaways: turnout was up in many states, signalling trouble for Trump, but so was racist voter suppression.

After ten days of the Delhi Pogrom in which 48 persons were killed, Rahul Gandhi along with a team of his party MPs visited the riot affected areas of Delhi on March 4. He was on the mission to assuage the traumatised and ravaged psyche and feelings of the poor Delhiites. Though affected people met Rahul and narrated their problems to him, it was not clear how far he succeeded in his mission.

While most economists and analysts are exasperated over the third quarter GDP growth, the authority considered the growth a significant as it bottomed out the downswing. The Economic Affairs secretary was upbeat and asserted that it signalled for a bounce back in the growth in the successive quarters.