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Vasco, Goa: Two goals in first half enabled Chennaiyin overpower spirited Odisha 2-1 to keep their hopes alive for the top four-berth in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Maharashtra's Rahi Sarnobat, Punjab's Rajeshwari Kumari and Lakshay Sheoran (Haryana) topped their respective events in the national shooting trials at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range here on Wednesday.

Kolkata: Table-toppers Churchill Brothers clash swords against third-placed Mohammedan Sporting on Thursday at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium in Kolkata.

Fatorda, Goa: Goa will look to extend its 3-game unbeaten streak when they take on Jamshedpur in the Hero Indian Super League at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Fatorda on Thursday.

Bengaluru: Ridhima Dilawari began with a double bogey, but by the time the first round of the first leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour ended, she had a share of the lead with Amandeep Dral.

Guess what, the conservative lot in the United States of America, the “greatest nation the world has ever known”, is cursing its lot in the changed outlook since the January 6 “insurrection,” lamenting the hard times POTUS Donald Trump’s lot are getting at the hands of Big Tech — Facebook and Twitter and Google, and Snapchat... The “bans” and the “ousters”, the “ejections” and the “expulsions.” It’s like the aliens have landed, and the extraterrestrials don’t recognize the ‘Who’s Who’ among the right-leaning earthlings!

Supreme Court of India these days are behaving in bizarre ways. After all the hearings on the petitions challenging the enactment of the three farm laws by the Narendra Modi Government in Parliament in a hurry during pandemic, the three member bench of the Court set up a four member committee for listening to the views of farmers and the Government for submitting recommendations. One positive thing is that the apex court stayed the implementation of the three farm laws until further orders.

The Supreme Court’s judgement on the farm laws sounded like a theatre of the absurd. For whom the bell rang. For the government? For the agitating farmers? For neither?

Organized labour of the United States of America, for the first time in years, will have a unionist at the president’s Cabinet table, as Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as U.S. Labour Secretary. This is a major appointment and the selection of an active trade unionist signals that Biden has taken into account the Left pressure for a change in labour policy in favour of workers.

LUCKNOW: Mrs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee are confronting Yogi Adityanath Government on the issues of unemployment, malnutrition and atrocities on women.