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Chennai: KY Ahamed led an emphatic 1-2 finish for TVS Racing as he vanquished his mentor and multiple champion Jagan Kumar to win the premier Pro-Stock 301-400cc race in the first round of the MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Friday.

Goa: Winless Odisha face a tough challenge as they take on Goa in the Hero Indian Super League Season at the GMC Stadium, here on Saturday.

Gurugram: Amandeep Drall warded off a determined challenge from Sehar Atwal as she hit two birdies in the last four holes to return 1-over 73 last round to win the eighth leg of Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour by three shots at the DLF Golf and Country Club here on Friday.

The COVID-19 pandemic raging across the globe has led to the closure of schools. In India alone, it has affected the education of nearly 290 million children. Already, there were six million children out of school. This number threatens to go up due to economic insecurity in their families due to COVID-19, causing many children to leave studies.

The Human Rights Watch has called the detention by the Indian government of civil rights and Dalit rights activist, Anand Teltumbde as “wrongful” and “politically motivated”.

Democratic polity in Pakistan is endangered once again as the Prime Minister Imran Khan suddenly talks of the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance, introduced by the last dictator-President Pervez Musharaf on 7 October 2007, granting amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused of corruption, money laundering, murders and terrorism between 1 January 1986 and 12 October 1999 — the phase between two Martial Law stints in Pakistan.

THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s political waters have been muddied further with the Opposition accusing Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan of helping the gold smuggling case accused and corruption in running the Assembly.

In the context of the on-going country-wide kisan movement for repealing Modi’s three agriculture bills, while an overwhelming majority of commentators have stood with the position taken by the kisans, a few, though not necessarily agreeing with Modi, have raised the question: why shouldn’t agriculture operate within a free market? It is worth recapitulating here the answer to this question which is well-known but can bear repetition.

The internal rebellion in the ruling party of Tripura is refusing to die down. Just two months ago, around 7-8 MLAs from the ruling party flew to Delhi to register their complaint against chief minister Biplab Deb to the party high command. These MLAs included Sudip Roy Barman, the former health minister of the state who was removed from the post due to his differences with Biplab.

The big success of the Bharat bandh called by the farmers’ organisations on December 8 was a display of people’s support and sympathy for the cause of the farmers.