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Hyderabad: World No. 10 Michelle Li staved off a spirited challenge from Rituparna Das to take the North Eastern Warriors to a commanding 5-0 win against the Pune 7 Aces at the GMC Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium here in Hyderabad today as they sealed their semi-final spot at the Star Sports Premier Badminton League.

Kollam (Kerala): Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB ) beat Steel Plant Sports Board 3-1 in a shootout to win the 10th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship here on Saturday after the scores were level at 1-1 after regulation time.

Kolkata: Elite Indian runners Anubhav Karmakar and Anjali Saraogi will be aiming to underline their supremacy at the IDBI Federal Life Insurance Kolkata Full Marathon 2020, which gets flagged-off from the Iconic Rangers Ground here on Sunday morning.

New Delhi: Promising Haryana shuttler Ravi and talented Mansi Singh of Uttar Pradesh will spearhead the 16-member Indian badminton squad at the Junior International Grand Prix events – the Yonex Dutch Junior International and the Yonex German Junior.

Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur FC will look to arrest their slide when they host a high-flying ATK at the JRD Sports Complex here on Sunday.

Aizawl: Real Kashmir defeated former Hero I-League champions 2-0 at the JLN Stadium, Aizawl today , thanks to some gutsy defensive work and all-round display from Mason Robertson, who was also adjudged the Hero of the Match.

The budget for Indian Railways does not seem to represent in true sense of the top three themes – aspirational India, economic development and the caring society – of the first Union Budget of the decade that has been envisioned to be ‘laying strong foundation for a bright future of the country’ and ‘key to India’s growth’. Rather, the Indian Railways, restructuring for which have already begun in the fag-end of December 2019, is likely to convert itself into Indian Railways Corporation under a CEO with a push towards privatization along with the Ministry’s façade of policy decisions and public accountability, a process tend to increase the rail services cost to the nation and its people. The Railways’ budget, in this context, can be termed as anti-people, because the Railways will be enforced to increase costs depriving general people of affordable means of bulk transportation. More so because railways may face a shortfall in actual revenue are calculated at the assumption of 10 per cent of growth rate of GDP, as against the current year’s growth rate of merely 5 per cent.

President Donald Trump’s acquittal was a certainty well before Sen. Lamar Alexander’s decision last night to hang tight with his long-time pal Mitch McConnell and oppose efforts by the Dems to call more witnesses and keep the trial going an extra week.

Never before there has been so much speculation about what the union budget would be, what would be the steeply sliding fiscal deficit figures and what concessions could be introduced in the budget to pull the economy out of its present rut as in the run up to the present one.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has used her budget speech as an employment guarantee scheme, not for the large army of unemployed in the country, but the protection of her own job. Her entire speech sounded like an anachronistic eulogy for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So much so that Modi himself was seen struggling to hide his embarrassment.