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New Delhi: Olympic medal winning pugilist Vijender Singh on Friday promised his full support to Special Olympics for differently-abled people, who according to him are the real heroes.

Goa: Goa, along with ATK and Bengaluru are locked in a compelling three-way battle for the top spot in the league stage of the Hero Indian Super League which guarantees a spot in the AFC Champions League. The Gaurs will be looking to pull clear of their rivals when they take on Kerala Blasters FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Saturday.

Oxfam Rights Group has come out with a study, ‘Time to Care’, on the occasion of the 50th annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF), a five-day summit from January 20, 2020, at Davos, Switzerland. The data were sourced from Credit Suisse Research Institute’s Global Wealth Data Book, 2019 and Forbes 2019 Billionaires List.

LUCKNOW: Much like the now iconic Shaheen Bagh in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh women’s protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Ghanta Ghar, Lucknow is gaining strength and support with every passing day. In fact, it is infectiously spreading to other cities and women are leading the fight against what is widely perceived to be a highly divisive move by the Modi-Shah government at the centre, that is supported by the Yogi-led state of UP.

The BJP leadership usually boasts of their fight against Emergency and claim they were primarily responsible for forcing the autocrat Indira Gandhi to retreat. They are free to make any claim which suits them. But the fact is fight during the Emergency was simple. It was a fight for the restoration of democracy against authoritarianism.

India budget exercise for the fiscal 2020-21 is different this year, not only because our Prime Minister has involved himself in the exercise, but also due to multiple new political and economic challenges that enforced him to come into the picture. The focus is on avoiding a turbulent fiscal ahead by resorting to a realistic budget at the time when economy is performing at a low growth rate of 4.8 per cent with huge shortfall in revenue under sweeping reform of GST, recommendations of 15th Finance Commission for revenue sharing with states which is binding on the government from the fiscal 2020-21, mounting inflationary pressure, rising oil prices, distortion in trade balance, deficit, and the political unrest in most of the states which are now ruled by opposition parties depending largely on revenue sharing and grants-in-aid from the Centre.

Mumbai: IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals have appointed former Australian fast bowler Rob Cassell as their new Fast Bowling Coach for the upcoming 2020 edition of the Indian Premier League. Cassell has had good success of working with, and developing fast bowlers at his previous coaching and development roles at South Australia and Ireland men’s cricket team.

Chennai: Chennaiyin boosted their top-four hopes after an emphatic 4-1 win over Jamshedpur at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Thursday.

Chennai: World No. 46 Subhankar Dey oozed brilliance under pressure to take the Awadhe Warriors to a 4-3 win against the North Eastern Warriors in their first tie at the Star Sports Premier Badminton League 2020 here at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium today.

New Delhi: Striker Ashu will lead the 20 -member Delhi U-17 boys team in the Hero Junior National Football Championship for the Dr BC Roy Trophy, to be held in Shillong, from January 28 to February 6.