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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.

Hyderabad: Mumbai City have blown hot and cold in the Hero Indian Super League and going into the business end, they will now look for some solidity. Chasing a top-four spot, Mumbai are set to take on Hyderabad at the GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium here on Friday.

New Delhi: National champion Archana Kamath’s perseverance paid off as the teenager took India past the finish-line in the decider of round of 32 against favourites Sweden at the ITTF World Team Qualification Tournament in Gondomar (Portugal) on Wednesday.

India, with a revised down growth projection at 4.8 per cent in current fiscal (2019/20), finds itself on a rough road to regain the lost momentum for 7 per cent, given the latest IMF projections of 5.8 per cent in fiscal 2021 and 6.5 per cent in 2021-22. The Modi government’s ambitious goal of a five trillion dollar economy by 2024 stands ruled out for the near future.

Will Nitish Kumar strive to keep his flock together and united, or sacrifice the interest of his party JD(U) for protecting and promoting the personal interest of Modi and Shah? This is the question haunting most of the JD(U) leaders. This question has attained huge significance and a completely new dynamics, with the party vice president Prashant Kishor challenging Shah’s assertion at a Lucknow public meeting that Modi government would not succumb to the opposition pressure tactics and withdraw the CAA.

BHOPAL: Along with rest of India, CAA and NRC are causing tensions and clashes between us of the two measures and administration in Madhya Pradesh, too. However, an incident in Rajgarh, which happens to be the home district of Digvijaya Singh, caused a flutter in the state’s political and administrative circles. The interesting part of the episode was a direct clash between the collector and deputy collector and the protestors. Both the officers happened to be women.