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INDIA: SPORTS

GOLF: ARYAN, KAYLA STAY AT TOP AT US KIDS INDIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Special Correspondent - 2020-01-30 18:21
New Delhi: Aryan Kaila of Delhi and Sri Lankan Kayla Perera extended their lead in the boys’ and girls’ category respectively at the end of the penultimate round of the US Kids Indian Championship golf tournament being played at the Classic Golf Resort near Manesar.
INDIA: SPORTS

FOOTBALL ISL: BENGALURU PIP HYDERABAD TO STAY IN CONTENTION

Special Correspondent - 2020-01-30 17:49
Bengaluru: Bengaluru secured a narrow 1-0 win against Hyderabad to keep pace with the top spot aspirants in the Hero Indian Super League at the Kanteerava Stadium here on Thursday.

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS IS EUPHEMISM FOR SURVEILLANCE STATE

CAPITALISM’S ‘KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY’ PROFILES US ALL
Joel Wendland-Liu - 2020-01-30 11:38
“Communicative capitalism,” writes the communist philosopher Jodi Dean, refers to a phase of knowledge- and technology-based commodity production in which information on a massive scale is produced, gathered, and sold for profit. What we now call the “information society” or “knowledge economy” sees the large-scale proletarianization of often highly-educated people in low-paying (often low-skilled) jobs, precariously scraping by to pay student loans, cover health insurance, and living paycheck to paycheck, wondering what happened to the “American Dream.”
INDIA

MAN OF HIS TIME: REMEMBERING TRADE UNIONIST GEORGE FERNANDES

FROM ESCAPING ASSASSINATION PLOTS TO ORGANISING WORKERS
Anjan Roy - 2020-01-30 11:35
George Fernandes was supposed to die in course of the Emergency in 1976. The orders were conveyed and the exception awaited. But an encrypted telegram had apparently landed on the wrong desk and therefore the plan had leaked out.
INDIA

PM MODI’S NEW STRATEGIES TO TIDE OVER ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

GOVERNMENT AS PRIME INVESTOR CAN REBOOT DOMESTIC MARKET
Subrata Majumder - 2020-01-30 11:33
Budget for 2020-21 will be the toughest for Nirmala Sitharaman, more than any other Finance Minister has faced during the past eight years. With the downturn in economic growth, which has unleashed a cascading impact on revenue growth and widened fiscal deficit, presenting an appropriate budget to resuscitate growth will be an uphill task for her.
INDIA: SPORTS

HYDERABAD HUNTERS WIN AS MICHELLE LI STUNS PV SINDHU AT PBL

Special Correspondent - 2020-01-29 18:25
Hyderabad: Former champions Hyderabad Hunters bounced back from a disappointing loss suffered by world champion PV Sindhu to beat North Eastern Warriors 2-1 as the Star Sports Premier Badminton League moved to Hyderabad today.
INDIA

HAS MODI LEFT OUT HIS BAGGAGE AND UNDER PRESSURE?

Vijay Sanghvi - 2020-01-29 18:16
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi left behind his baggage that had helped him to perform a political miracle. Lotus, the election symbol gained a clear mandate in the 2014 election after the 13 earlier failures. Lotus was absent in two elections in 1977 and 1980. He had fought single handedly to overthrow the coalition in the office for two terms. He succeeded only because he had new package to offer to Indian voters that were fed on concepts of charity as development programmes. He promised only hard work and no free lunch in his regime. His promise of accelerated pace of economic growth had achieved the miracle.
INDIA: SPORTS

FOOTBALL ISL: GOA SURVIVE RESILIENT ODISHA TO RECLAIM TOP SPOT

Special Correspondent - 2020-01-29 17:58
Bhubaneswar: The top-four conundrum in the Hero Indian Super League took an interesting turn as FC Goa edged past Odisha FC 4-2 at the Kalinga Stadium here on Wednesday.