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Chennai: Chennaiyin FC’s mini-revival of sorts will be put to test when Indian Super League table-toppers FC Goa travel to the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Thursday.

Bhopal: Leading Rifle and Pistol shooters continued to maintain their good form at the 63rdNational Shooting Championship Competitions here on Wednesday, after Anjum Moudgil won the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) title for a third consecutive year and fellow Tokyo 2020 quota holders Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal were crowned national champions in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team competition.

Jamshedpur: Top 60 golfers of the country from the current TATA STEEL PGTI Order of Merit along with 15 invitees will be seen in action in the RS 1.5 Cr prize money season-ending TATA STEEL Tour Championship at the Golmuri Golf Course here from 26th – 29th December, 2019.

Mumbai: Sakshi Chaudhary has been recognised as one of the best prospects for India in international boxing. After Vijender Singh won a medal in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Bhiwani Boxing Club in Haryana had an energetic youngster waiting at their doorstep eager to become a boxer. Sakshi had taken inspiration from Vijender and was determined to become a boxer.

Kolkata: ATK will look to make their strong home form count when they take on defending champions Bengaluru FC in a Hero Indian Super League tie at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan here on Wednesday.

Bhopal: Commonwealth and Youth Olympic Games champion Manu Bhaker and Haryana state-mate Anish Bhanwala swept the Women’s 10m Air and Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol titles at the 63rd National Shooting Championship Competitions (Rifle/Pistol) in Bhopal.

This week, starting Dec. 22, Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukkah, the eight-day festival that commemorates the Jews’ successful struggle for self-determination from ancient Greek imperialism. A brief summary of the history behind this holiday echoes many struggles of the 20th and 21st centuries:

BHOPAL: Another session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly elected in 2018 has ended abruptly without completing the duration for which it was summoned. Abrupt adjournment was the fate of the assembly elected in 2013 also. At that time BJP occupied the treasury benches and Congress was in the opposition. Now roles have reversed. Now Congress controls the government and the BJP is in the opposition. No business in the interest of the common men could be done except the passage of supplementary budged.

Raghubar Das’s subterfuge to own up the responsibility for the defeat of BJP in Jhakhand is purely a latent machination to provide a cover to his leaders Narendra Modi and Amit Shah from cadres’ censure. More than being an anti-incumbency verdict this ought to be construed as a peoples’ denunciation of policies and ideology of Modi-Shah combination.

The impressive win by the Mahagathbandhan in Jharkhand indeed sends a powerful political message, though it is a small state. This is the second state that the BJP has lost in the past six months after Maharashtra. The Modi-Shah duo will have to take a step back and reflect, as with the addition of Jharkhand, the non-BJP governments in the country now control more than 65 per cent of the population. Democracy indeed is a great leveller. No doubt the results show that the Modi magic is on the wane even though he had emerged so much stronger just six months ago with an impressive win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.