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Vasco (Goa): In football, individual moments often decide the larger story that plays out over 90 minutes. On Saturday, Mumbai City FC learnt this the hard way. A red card and a penalty turned a game, that they were otherwise dominating, on its head and handed NorthEast United FC a winning start to Hero Indian Super League Season 7, at the Tilak Maidan in Vasco.

BHOPAL: After ensuring victory of most of the Congress defectors, the BJP has launched a project of their ideological assimilation in the party. For this the BJP organised a two day training camp. The camp was attended among others by Jyotiraditya Scindia. Besides Congress defectors, the camp was also attended by the old party members.

In a scene from the 1966 film Nayak, the hero Arindam Chatterjee, played by the Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar, refuses to alight from his car and address a striking workers’ gathering, despite his trade unionist friend pleading him to say a few words to the hungry labourers. Soumitra Chatterjee’s one abiding regret had been that Satyajit Ray denied him the lead role in Nayak, and had Uttam Kumar bring to life a character that was the celluloid demigod’s doppelganger, as it were. Yet, Chatterjee knew deep in his heart that it was a role that he couldn’t have essayed as viscerally as Uttam had. For Chatterjee would have got down from his car and addressed the workers, perhaps even given them company in their strike, until their demands were met.

New Delhi: Marathon World record holder Brigid Kosgei,(Kenya) Half Marathon Record timer Ababel Yeshaneh (Ethiopia) will be seen in action in the 16th Airtel Half Marathon (ADHM) scheduled to be held here on 29 November.

New Delhi: Talented young hockey striker Jyoti feels that it is 'a brilliant time to be a women's team player in India’.

Although traditionally fast and efficient, the electronic vote count from Brazil’s local municipal elections last Sunday was delayed by more than three and a half hours. Yet this alarming development did not prevent the electorate’s general mood from making itself clear well before midnight: President Jair Bolsonaro and the far right suffered the worst defeats of the day.

The Labour leader Keir Starmer managed to gain some more seats in the national executive committee (NEC) elections on Friday, but miserably failed to succeed in his mission to completely weed out the Socialist and leftist supporters of ousted leader Jeremy Corbyn as they won eight of the 15 positions.

Minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur, who is also a former BCCI chief, has added a sense of urgency to the debate on whether to make betting legal in India by suggesting the other day that such a move would help curb match fixing, which is becoming a bane for sports. The minster’s suggestion came as part of his response to suggestions made during a conference of ICCI Securities, where various participants raised the issue both as a source of revenue for the government as well as an effective tool against manipulation of matches.

What does the Bihar election say about the social balance of power? Though most parties attempted to reach out beyond their core social base, there were some predictable patterns. About half the candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) belonged to the forward castes and, according to the Lokniti-CSDS post-poll, most upper caste voters supported the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Margao (Goa): Match three of the Hero Indian Super League Season 7 will pit two of the most consistent teams in the league's history against each other, with a new-look FC Goa side taking on Bengaluru FC at the JL Nehru Stadium, Fatorda in Margao on Sunday.