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Goa: Season six of the Hero Indian Super League is all set to culminate with a showdown between ATK and Chennaiyin at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Saturday.

Gurugram: Gursimar Badwal ended a 14-month title drought with a superb three-under 69 that saw her complete a fine rally and won the sixth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Classic Golf & Country Club, Gurugram.

Kolkata: Udayan Mane of Pune, looking for a record fourth straight title on the TATA Steel PGTI, was back in familiar territory as he found himself in the joint lead at 10-under-130 at the halfway stage of the Bengal Open Golf Championship being played at the Tollygunge Club in Kolkata.

Bengaluru: Star defender Harmanpreet Singh, who played a lead role in India’s defense during the FIH Series Final as well as the Olympic Qualifiers says that his team mates are focused on the opening match of the Tokyo Olympics.

The agreement signed between the USA and the Taliban in Doha on 29 February in the presence of representatives from India, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan – signalling a cessation to two decades of bloody war and withdrawal of the US troops in the rugged terrain of landlocked Afghanistan – faces a lemma of uncertainties pertaining to its implementation. As per the deal, in 14 months and a half, the number of US forces will be reduced from about 13,000 to 8,600. In exchange, the Taliban agreed to renounce al-Qaeda and prevent al-Qaeda and other groups from using Afghanistan as a base for terrorism against the USA. They agreed to negotiate a permanent ceasefire also with other Afghan militants and the Afghan government.

When the whole world is concerned about the spread of corona virus, the Indian economy is trembling before another virus. This is the virus of instability emanating from unending greed of the private capital. Though it has impacted all structures of life, the government is in no mood to recognize the widespread presence of this disastrous element in vitals of the economy. They close their eyes and try to pretend that it is only a minor illness that has affected the nation. They come out with funny types of prescription claiming that everything will be fine within a few days.

The premier public sector BHEL is making big advances in developing new technology through vigorous research and development efforts that have helped the PSE to offer new products and systems which are globally competitive. Significant developments/improvements in engineering, processes and product covering various businesses like power, industry, transportation and transmission have taken place during recent months.

With the outbreak of novel Corona Virus or COVID-19, it is a wakeup call for the nations and MNCs who are excessively dependent on global value chain manufacturing, concentrating in a particular country. During last two decades, China has become centre - stage for global value chain. It became important not as a biggest global manufacturer and exporter, but also supplier of intermediate inputs for manufacturing elsewhere.

Super Tuesday II was another round of victories for Joe Biden. Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, and Idaho were added to his column on March 10; as of this writing, only North Dakota went for Bernie Sanders, and Washington state is still counting. After two tough weeks at the polls and with endorsements from elected officials rolling in for Biden, there are increasing calls for the socialist from Vermont to close up shop and head back to Burlington. But there are many big reasons that Bernie shouldn’t call it quits, at least not yet.

The relation between the Congress and the RJD has never been affable under the stewardship of Tejashvi Yadav, the person in hurry to govern Bihar. With Congress nursing soft corner towards the former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar the situation has turned more complicated. In fact emergence of Kanhaiya as the most potent and radical face in the opposition camp has turned out to be the element of envy amongst the opposition leaders and has been at the base of the recent crisis in opposition political camp.