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Kochi: Kerala Blasters and NorthEast United settled for a 1-1 draw in a Hero Indian Super League tie at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, on Saturday.

The controversy over remarks by outgoing Army chief General Bipin Rawat is a clear case of the interpretation doing more harm than the original statement. With all shades of opinion joining the acrimony, the armed forces have been willy-nilly drawn into the highly politicised issue of citizenship laws.

PARIS: Time magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year last week, but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to counter the effects of an ever more rapacious neoliberal capitalism, the real Person of the Year who epitomizes this moment may be the French public worker, on strike now for over two weeks to save the French pension system.

The observation of the Army chief, General Bipin Rawat on the nature of the students’ protests against the new citizenship law and the quality of the leadership at a public event in Delhi is not only bizzare, or inappropriate, nor amounts to overstepping the Laxman Rekha, instead it is a direct attack on the institution of Indian Republic and Constitution of India. What is most deplorable has been silence of the prime minister and the defence minister not censoring him on this issue. As the serving chief he should have refrained from trespassing the sacred domain.

The Jharkhand results should worry the BJP; not least because it has been losing assembly elections and allies since 2017-18. The loss of Jharkhand will rankle particularly, since the BJP had won 11 of 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state in May and provided a stable government for the full five-year term, the first since the state was formed in 2000. The defeat may also have come at an inappropriate time for the party—neighbouring Bihar, where the BJP is in office in alliance with the JD(U), is headed to polls next year. The gains in Jharkhand will be a boost for the Opposition, which, since the drubbing in the general election, has been lying low.

New Delhi: World Championships silver medallist Deepak Punia and World Championships bronze medallist Vinesh Phogat were declared best wrestlers of 2019 in a poll initiated by WrestlingTV, India’s first and only digital destination for the sport of wrestling.

Jamshedpur: Sri Lankan N Thangaraja shot a superb nine-under-63 to storm into the halfway lead at the season-ending TATA Steel Tour Championship at the Golmuri Golf Course here on Friday. The 38-year-old from Colombo enjoys a one-shot lead at 15-under-129 at the Rs. 1.5 crore event.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha FC got off to a winning start in their first Hero Indian Super League match at the Kalinga Stadium, edging Jamshedpur FC 2-1 on Friday.

Mumbai: Procam International on Friday announced seven-time Olympic medallist, American gymnast and nine-time World Champion, Shannon Miller as the International Event Ambassador for the 17th edition of the World Athletics Gold Label Tata Mumbai Marathon, to be held on 19th January, 2020.

New Delhi: Indian Junior Men's Team's consistent overall performance in 2019 has raised hopes of it providing strong bench strength to the senior squad in coming years.