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Bengaluru: Erik Paartalu grabbed a goal and an assist as Bengaluru FC reduced the gap at the top of the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) table with a convincing 2-0 win against Jamshedpur FC at the Kanteerava Stadium here on Thursday.

The unprecedented total shut down of the entire country — both urban and rural — on January 8, 2020 is really a historic one. If the RSS-controlled BJP government led by Narendra Modi still ignores the writing on the wall, it will be a big disaster for it as it will be digging its own grave by doing so. The entire country is up in arms against the communal, divisive and anti-people policies of the Modi government. It will be impossible to find any section of our population that is not hit and devastated by the policies of the government.

India witnessed the biggest ever working-class strike after independence on 8th January. 25 crores of working men and women from all sectors of the economy once again served their notice to the RSS led government that plays to the tune of corporate looters. This strike was the fifth one since Narendra Modi came to power. Chanting swadeshi mantra they have wide opened the womb of Indian economy before foreign capital and the nation's interests are constantly under attack.

Humanity faces a planetary emergency, and survival of all life is at stake. Four years ago, the Paris Climate Accords were adopted. The Accords, signed by 197 nations including the U.S. under the Obama administration, marked an unprecedented level of global cooperation to fight the climate crisis.

LEFT-WING political parties are doing better in Spain than in much of Europe, with the PSOE (socialists) emerging as the largest party in the last two general elections. In 2019, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez retained power by doing a deal with the more left-wing Unidas Podemos alliance and Catalan nationalists.

Two of the basic tenets of conflict resolution for peace are tolerance and negotiations. In Indian government educational institutions, these two are wantonly missing. Mind you, the conflicts generally are not given a voice in private or cushy institutions, where democracy does not exist, and the voices of discordant are nipped in the bud. At places, where it does exist, if one of the conflicting parties takes to non-violence (as did the JNUSU), the other/s would take up violent assertions of their presence to catch attention (as did the JNU VC-supported ABVP). The political expediency of tolerance and negotiations has been given a break. Jawaharlal Nehru University’s vice chancellor M Jagadish Kumar has adopted the second recourse, causing nationwide anguish across ideologies. What happened in the prestigious JNU is not a conflict of ideologies, but that of political muscle-flexing tinged with egotism, as the shameless cowardly undercover attacks on the hapless, peaceful agitators on January 5 this year amply demonstrate.

Owners of pubs and liquor outlets in Bengaluru have told the Karnataka government that they could help the state government with additional Rs 1,000 crore this year if they are allowed to keep their outlets open for one more hour daily. The state government might even be tempted to accept the offer as it is in dire straits, falling short of Rs 2,000 crore in meetings its financial obligations.

Mumbai: Army’s Srinu Bugatha and Olympian Sudha Singh will headline the Indian challenge in the men's and women's section respectively in the USD$420,000 Tata Mumbai Marathon (TMM) to be held here on 19th January.

Al Ula, Saudi Arabia: Brushing off the set back from Stage 3, Hero MotoSports Team Rally started stage 4 with a positive intent today.

Guwahati: Jammu and Kashmir’s young pistol shooters Samarth Tuli and Laabibah Michelle Tahir could not stop needling one another on board the first chartered flight, operated by SpiceJet from Delhi to compete the Khelo India Youth Games here. Seated in the Executive Class, they paused only when refreshments were served.