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New Delhi: Indian women football team’s head coach Thomas Dennerby says that players are training hard in preparation of the AFC Asian Cup India 2022. “Now, it’s just a few days left, and we are doing the final preparations. We are just fine tuning a few things for the team right now,” he said.

On September 1 last year, Allahabad High Court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav held that the cow should be declared as the national animal of India. Urging the Union Government to bring a bill in the Parliament for the protection of cows, Justice Yadav also said that the government should declare cow protection as the fundamental right of Hindus.

The Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be not too worried about anti-incumbency. It is upbeat, like one political analyst put it. But political analysts are dime a dozen, each with a viewpoint different from the other. That being said, if only the perception did not prevail that the Congress is losing ground nationally while the Trinamool is spreading its wings to the all-India level. Yes, “if only.”

The rising COVID-19 cases and similar virulent, no holds barred election campaign has compelled the Election Commission of India to announce the Legislative Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh in as many as 7 phases between February 10 and March 7, 2022. Political sand-shifting on the ground level is an additional factor necessitating repositioning for both the ruling BJP and the opposition, the former has the highest stake and the latter the biggest hopes.

Narendra Modi’s cliché on threat to his life has failed to have its magical effect. Modi might have expected that his narrative would ignite peoples’ passion and would force them to hit the streets demanding action against the guilty persons especially the Congress leaders. But nothing as desired by him happened. It simply underlined that common people, baring the BJP cadres and leaders, have refused to subscribe Modi’s rhetoric.

New Delhi: Former champions and top seeds Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu will lead home challenge in the Men’s and Women’s section respectively at the USD 400,000 prize money Super 500 event at Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton tournament to be held in the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall at the IG Indoor Stadium here from January 11 to 16.

Chennai: Local rider, Ryhana Bee (RACR Castrol Power Ultimate) regained the title in the Girls category with one race to spare as the fourth round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship 2021 concluded at the MMRT.

“For getting human treatment, convert yourselves. Convert for getting organised. Convert for becoming strong. Convert for securing equality. Convert for getting liberty. Convert so that your domestic life should be happy.”

Farmers’ strike and the looming covid-19 pandemic notwithstanding, foodgrain production is estimated to be higher in 2021-22 than the previous year when it touched an all-time high of 308.65 million tonnes. Growing at 3.5%, foodgrain production is likely to remain in the range of 310-320 million tonnes. This piece of news coming from the government sources is highly reassuring at a time when the country seems in the throes of yet another Covid-19 wave. Thanks to the resilient Indian agriculture sector, India was able to provide free foodgrains to its poor and marginalized population at the peak of the first and second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

JAMMU: Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were last held in the last quarter of 2014. No party could win a clear majority as has been the trend for past two decades since 2002 when the National Conference led by Farooq Abdullah had lost its majority. In 2008 also, no single party had won a majority and it was coalition governments that ruled the state, now a Union Territory (UT). It seems the trend is well established now and no single party is likely to emerge a clear winner with 46/90 seats on its own this year also when elections are held after a few months.