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Kolkata: History was made on Thursday in Indian football when City Football Group (CFG) acquired a 65 per cent stake in Hero Indian Super League club Mumbai City FC. The Hero ISL club joins an elite list of clubs who are under the ownership of the Abu Dhabi based CFG which includes Premier League champions Manchester City and six other clubs around the world.

Gurugram: Jitender Yadav, a 23-year-old physical education student from Nangloi in Delhi, will bid fair to complete a hat-trick of victories while doughty 25-year-old Ladakhi Tsetan Dolkar could well be the woman runner to beat in the fifth Apollo Tyres Millennium City Marathon on the Sikanderpur and Golf Course Road underpasses here on Sunday.

Bhubaneswar: A FIFA delegation alongside members of the Local Organising Committee inspected the Kalinga Stadium to ascertain the readiness of Bhubaneswar to host the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020.

Ahmedabad: Kolkata’s Sunit Chowrasia shot a second straight five-under-67 to join Delhi’s Shamim Khan in the halfway lead at the Kensville Open 2019 Presented by TATA Steel PGTI, a Rs. 40 lakh event, being played at the Kensville Golf & Country Club near Ahmedabad.

Greater Noida: India's first Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan, former Force India driver Tonio Liuzzi, Malaysian hero Alex Yoong and legendary F1 driver Niki Lauda’s son, Mathias will with headline country's much awaited motorsports show, the JK Tyre Festival of Speed (JKFOS), in an exciting new format at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) here tomorrow.

Kolkata: Hero Indian Super League leaders ATK will be eyeing a third consecutive win at home when they host Mumbai City FC here at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium on Saturday.

Close on the heels of an ignominious fiasco in Maharashtra, came a stunning defeat for the BJP in the three bye-elections to the West Bengal Assembly. It lost all the three seats including Kharagpur Sadar which is one of the Assembly segments of the Medinipur parliamentary constituency which was won by the State BJP president Dilip Ghosh in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. For the first time, the Trinamool Congress won this seat as well as Kaliaganj. The BJP candidate at Kharagpur Sadar was trounced by the Trinamool by a whopping margin of twenty thousand votes, much to the chagrin of Dilip Ghosh.

The NRC is part of the BJP's attempt to redefine India's identity. A closer look would make it imperative that it is simply the part of the saffron strategy to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra. The element of political confusion and fragility about the India’s identity at this stage for our secular, democratic and socialist founding principles is deeply worrying.

In 2018-19, USA became the biggest trading partner of India, scuttling Chinese predominance for over half a decade. Paradoxically, however, the reasons for the trade buoyancy with two countries are diagonally opposite to each other. While USA reached the helm of trade due to large scale imports from India, China reached the peak due to large scale exports to India. In terms of qualitative trade relation, USA played more important role to Indian economy by boosting exports, against China causing widening trade deficit.

Chennai: Chennaiyin FC and Odisha FC shared the spoils after a thrilling Hero Indian Super League encounter finished 2-2 at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Thursday.