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New Delhi: "It feels amazing to be touring again," said Captain Rani Rampaul before the 25-member India Women's hockey team left here for Argentina this morning.

Goa: Two early first half goals enabled Mumbai City down Kerala Blaster 2-0 to reclaim the top spot in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, on Saturday.

New Delhi: The core group of 33 Hockey players will resume their training cum coaching at the National Camp in Sports Authority of India (SAI), Bengaluru from 5 January.

Fatorda, Goa: Odds are even as table topper Mohun Bagan takes on NorthEast United challenge, in the Hero Indian Super League at the JL Nehru Stadium in Fatorda on Sunday.

Vasco, Goa: East Bengal and Odisha, the only two winless sides in the Hero Indian Super League, will hope to kick-start the year with a victory, as they take on each other on Sunday at the Tilak Maidan Stadium, Vasco.

Perhaps for several understandable reasons the reality that 2020 has been a year of worldwide protest has been rather missing from the numerous media summaries of the last 12 months.

Lawyers are obsessed with Latin–a dead language with few takers. Often, lawyers unconsciously, and at times, consciously, pepper their conversations with a healthy dose of Latin. When you hear “qua”, “inter alia” and “quid pro quo” in small talk, more likely than not, you are in legal company. So lawyers will perhaps have no trouble when I use a Latin term to describe the year that went past for law, lawyers and the legal system–annus horribilis–the horrible year.

The erstwhile Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission was denounced by all shades of liberal opinion as an integral part of licence raj. However, despite the expressed intent of preventing monopolies, as the entity’s name suggested, India’s major corporate houses flourished as monopolies under its regime. Apparently, it restricted only new players to enter their preferred business, rather than obstructing the expansion of existing monopolies to expand into any sphere of activity at will.

In a feat of political compartmentalization with no domestic parallel, BJP has managed to sail through post-liberalisation India’s first recession year, the worst public health crisis since Independence, a protracted Chinese presence on the LAC and the largest farmer mobilisation in three decades. Despite the best attempts of BJP critics to connect these to governance failures, the party’s counter narrative was ready with simplistic responses.

New Delhi: Indian men and women's hockey team captains Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampaul have exuded confidence of winning a medal each at the Tokyo Olympics.