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Kochi: Bottom-placed teams Hyderabad and Kerala Blasters will be desperate to add a win to their kitty as they face each other in a Hero Indian Super League clash at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Sunday.

Mumbai: Defending champions Cosmas Lagat and Worknesh Alemu will return to the Tata Mumbai Marathon – a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race and one of Asia’s leading marathons – to contest India’s richest road race on 19 January.

Srinagar: Real Kashmir FC will play host to Mohun Bagan at the TRC Turf Stadium on the first Sunday of the new year in what is going to be their second home fixture after beating champions Chennai City FC last month.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Saturday shortlisted 25 Probables for the 17-day Senior Women National Camp to begin on 05 January at the Sports Authority of India, Bengaluru Campus.

BHOPAL: RSS has chosen Madhya Pradesh for intensive and extensive campaign to explain positive aspects of citizens (amendment) act and NRC. Not only for campaign but Indore has also been selected as the venue to prepare long-term strategy to clear the confusion created by opponents. Sar Sangh Chalak Dr. Mohan Bhagwat has already arrived in Indore and proposes to stay there till January 8. Not only Bhagwat but almost all the top functionaries of RSS will also stay in Indore along with Bhagwat. All of them attach great importance to the measure.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Can a Governor act like a full-time politician? Are there deterrents to stop him from crossing the ‘Lakshman Rekha’? What are the options before a State Government which is at the receiving end of gubernatorial misconduct?

The stage is now finally set for the one day all India general strike on January 8 called by the central trade unions of the country excepting the BJP affiliated BMS to dare the attention of the Government to the ten demands including the hike of minimum wages and withdrawing the decision on privatisation of the central public sector undertakings. This will be first such massive trade union action in favour of the economic demands during the seventh month tenure of the Modi 2 government.

People around the world have been worried of the rising tide of rightwing populism, nationalism and polarisation, but the situation is more alarming in India. The rightist forces are out to eliminate the liberal and democratic forces from the political scenario of the country.

The nationwide protest against the citizenship law, spearheaded by students and youth, has its own irony. BJP has been the beneficiary of such an agitation between 2011 and 2013, which helped the party to be swept to power in 2014. Today, the party and its government are at the receiving end.

Among the political parties the Congress is most maligned for being a dynastic organization. But now almost all political parties have been affected by this menace except the Left parties. Look at Maharashtra: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s recent expansion of his Council of Ministers exemplifies how deep-rooted dynastic politics is in the country. As many as 19 of the 43 ministers hail from political families, cutting across the three coalition partners in Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi. From Uddhav’s son Aaditya Thackeray getting a cabinet berth to Ajit Pawar, nephew of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, dynasts are everywhere one looks. In fact, even those who are unhappy about not getting a ministerial berth—like Bhor Congress MLA Sangram Thopte, son of former chief minister Anantrao Thopte, whose supporters attacked the party office in Pune—are also dynasts.