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Bambolim, Goa: Odds favour Mumbai city as they take on Kerala Blasters in the first match of 2021 in the Hero Indian Super League at GMC Stadium, Bambolim here on Saturday.

Finally the Brexit deal has been approved by the UK House of Commons. The way the house proceeding was conducted amidst rebellion by a large section of the Labour MPs, it is certain that it would dominate the political discourse of the UK for long.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was an unprecedented effort to save the world’s largest democracy from the clutches of what had become the Leviathan of a selected few.

Well ahead of the Assam Assembly elections next year, the pre-poll campaign rhetoric exchanged between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its bête noire the pro-minority All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) is turning increasingly vicious. The situation has worsened after serious charges about the AIUDF leader, MP Mr. Badruddin Ajmal’s NGOs receiving Islamic terror funds, were made public.

India saw in 2021 at 12 am last night. This morning came the CNN message in the inbox “Brighter days are coming...” Yeah, well, hope so. For CNN, at least, after being battered with charges of “fake news” and other disparaging Trump-coinage for four unstoppable long years.

The kisans gathered around the Delhi border have unerringly put their fingers on the real issue confronting them, namely their very survival as peasants. Till now there was an arrangement in the country which, though crumbling under the impact of neo-liberalism, still kept the peasantry alive. The three laws brought in by the Modi government are meant to remove this life-line altogether. These three laws thus carry the neo-liberal agenda in this sphere to its limit. This is also why there can be no meeting ground between the protesting kisans and the government, within the ambit of these laws; they simply have to be repealed.

As the year 2021 begins leaving behind 2020 — the year battered world over by Covid pandemic, the left and the democratic forces of India declare that our struggle for a new India where the dreams of freedom are fulfilled, would continue. In New Year 2021, naturally we look back to the previous year when we had experienced something unusual in the history of humankind. Though bitter and long-lasting, it underlined the fact that the human race would always be able to overcome the odds with the support of science and feeling of oneness.

Kanyakumari: About one and a half months back, country's first-ever international medal winning para cyclist Aditya Mehta alongside members of para cycling team began pedalling from Kashmir with a charity mission to raise money and create awareness about para sports across India.

New Delhi: Chief coach Graham Reid and Captain Manpreet Singh have hailed Hockey Team's mental toughness in tumultuous year asserting that players are close to the fitness levels that they showcased in international matches in February 2020.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is playing flute in support of the corporates even as the farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation fire has engulfed the national capital. The prime minister who got defeated morally in front of the unprecedented historic struggle of farmers has now turned towards the Left in Kerala. He is alleging that the Opposition, in particular the left parties, are misleading and misdirecting the farmers. In fact, the prime minister and the central government are misleading and misdirecting crores of our farmers and masses.