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Saudi Arabia: Hero MotoSports Team Rally is profoundly grieved to report that its Portuguese rider, Paulo Goncalves passed away this morning during the 7th stage of the Dakar Rally 2020.

New Delhi: In a bid to bring the game of football closer to the women and provide a structured league set up to encourage more and more women to take up the sport in Delhi and NCR region, Football Delhi launched the first edition of U-17 Khelo India Girls Football League here at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

Guwahati: Maharashtra’s Asmi Ankush Badade and Uttar Pradesh’s Jatin Kumar Kanojia joined Tripura lass Priyanka Dasgupta as Khelo India Youth Games biggest bounty hunters so far here , adding one more gold to take their individual tallies to three.

Guwahati: Maharashtra's Asmi Ankush Badade and Uttar Pradesh's Jatin Kumar Kanojia joined Tripura's Priyanka Dasgupta as quadruple gold medal winners at the gymnastics competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2020 at the Bhogeswari Phukanani Indoor Stadium here on Saturday.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha FC toppled Mumbai City FC 2-0 to make it three wins out of three at the Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Hero MotoSports Team Rally tried to give it a push today to reach the half way mark of the Rally with improved standings.

New Delhi: Currently based in Kuala Lumpur in preparation for their FIH Hockey Pro League opener, Max Caldas didn't mince his words when he emphasised on the importance of getting off to a good start in the League where they finished third last year behind winners Australia and Runners-up Belgium.

Mamata Banerjee has decided to stay away from the meeting of opposition leaders called by Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday. She is annoyed with the role of the State Congress and the CPI-M. These parties are constantly carping at her and her party and questioning her credibility as a real opponent of the BJP. They are calling the TMC “B-team” of the BJP.

In Assam, the much hyped Assam NRC updating operation was confidently projected as an ironclad mechanism to identify and deport illegal Bangladeshi ‘infiltrators’ during a ceremonial launch some time ago. Provisions approved by the Supreme Court ensured that ‘dubious’ people who could not be instantly pushed back into Bangladesh could be kept in indefinite quarantine in special jails. During the last few years, a deceptive calm concealing simmering tensions prevailed among the numerous major and minor linguistic/religious groups and communities. The people of Assam and the state Government deserve all credit for maintaining communal peace and harmony during an unusually sensitive period.

It is too early to predict the outcome of the coming Assembly elections in Delhi. It will not be a surprise if Arvind Kejriwal succeeds in getting a second term. Delhi, as a matter of fact, presents a very tough battle for the BJP. Aam Aadmi Party will want its work to speak for itself. According to present indications, Delhi is poised for a head-on clash between chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with BJP shying away from naming a CM face. After a series of electoral reverses for its incumbent state governments, BJP has opportunity to take advantage of anti-incumbency, if it exists. But AAP can boast of improvements in public infrastructure, with no corruption taint on its record. However, AAP’s job will be made harder by Congress, competing for similar voter segments.