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Pune: Bengaluru FC extended their unbeaten start in the ongoing Hero Indian Super League to seven games with a narrow 1-0 win against Odisha FC at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex here on Wednesday.

Kathmandu: Indian men’s and women’s kho kho teams reigned supreme as they finished champions for the second consecutive time at the 13th South Asian Games here in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

Kathmandu: Indian paddlers, after winning the team gold medals yesterday, also grabbed the gold and silver medals in all the three doubles events in the 13th South Asian Games here on Wednesday.

Pokhara (Nepal): India shuttlers continued their dominating show at the 13th South Asian Games after four individuals and as many doubles pairs enter semi-finals in Pokhara, Nepal, on Wednesday. With entry into the last-4 stage, shuttlers will at least win bronze at the competition.

Mumbai: Mumbai City FC and Kerala Blasters FC will be desperate to pick up their second win of the season when they meet at the Mumbai Football Arena here on Thursday.

Kalyani: In what was the Hero I-League 2019-20’s first match played at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium, Real Kashmir were able to hold East Bengal to a pulsating tie which ended 1-1. Although Kolkata club enjoyed 64% possession over the course of the match, Real Kashmir held their nerves to leave the ground with one point.

Kannur: World Championships silver medallist Sonia Chahal (57kg) and Youth World Champion Jyoti Gulia (51kg) stormed into the quarter-finals as Nandini (81kg) bowed out at the 4th Elite Women’s National Boxing Championships at the Mundayad Indoor Stadium, Kannur, Kerala on Wednesday.

Jammu: Top-seeded Maharashtra A, justifying their top billing, defeated sixth-seeded Karnataka 3-1 to book their berth in the Junior Girls final of the 81st UTT Junior and Youth Nationals at the Indoor Hall of the M.A. Stadium here today.

The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has published their manifesto. Its 50 pages paint a picture of a party stuck in the past and concerned more with changing flags than changing lives. The contrast with the forward-looking radicalism of Scottish Labour’s manifesto couldn’t be clearer. Indeed even being clear is something that separates the two documents.

On 28th November, 2019, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (‘MVA’), a post-poll coalition between Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party, and Indian National Congress formed the government in Maharashtra under the aegis of Uddhav Thackeray, after almost a month long drama. It was difficult to envisage that parties at extreme ends of secular values, with Shiv Sena, being the hardline Hindutva regional party from Maharashtra, coming on board with the secular parties like Congress and NCP. But a week is a long time in politics, and the first signs of the new MVA government have been encouraging, in an otherwise very gloomy political and economic environment.