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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political blunder of the first order. That is the only way to describe the Kerala Police (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 hurriedly passed by the Kerala Government. It was an unkindest cut from a Left Government headed by a party that touts the delights of freedom of speech day in and day out.

During the 2011 assembly elections of Assam, Congress party thundered back to power with a strong majority by winning 78 seats. This was the third consecutive victory of the grand old party in the north-eastern state. The resounding success came at a time when the incumbent Congress state government was facing charges of corruption. The result came as a surprise to many including the then main opposition party, Assam Gana Parishad — as some exit polls had predicted that the regional party would perform better.

Goa: Hyderabad began their Hero Indian Super League campaign with a solitary goal win over Odisha, at the GMC Stadium in Goa on Monday.

New Delhi: Union sports minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday assured the Badminton Association of India (BAI) all help and support to hold prestigious Yonex Sunrise India Open Super series next year.

New Delhi: Moinuddin Amdani and Abhinav Tejan will represent India in — PES and Tekken7 — respectively at the 12th Esports World Championships Finals scheduled to take place in Eilat, Israel in February 2021.

Goa: Every now and then, in football, fans would find a player or a coach they were cheering on not so long ago wearing colours of the opposing team.

At first, I was tempted to call this piece, Banks, Babus and Bulls. But then I thought, nothing really changes, and films only confirm this. Especially in India.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has constituted a number of committees and put the so called rebels in these committees. Through this move an impression is being created that the dissident leaders, like Kapil Sibal, Shasi Tharoor, P Chidambaram are opposing the leadership for sharing power. Loyalist to the leadership systematically tried to create the impression that these leaders are out to grab the office of the party president obviously with the aim to become the future prime minister.

India’s sad pre-partition experience with a predominantly Muslim party has made it difficult for the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader, Asaduddin Owaisi, to find a place in mainstream politics.

There is always a rush of claimants to take credit of being sire of success but failures left to find their mothers to hide in the wombs. The NaMo fan club is not tired of claiming success of his regime in the past seven years though even more failures stare them. The fans are also unable to cover up the stark reality of the collapse of the economy and yawning reality of manifold increase in unemployment.