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Kolkata: Playing an all-out game youthful Hyderabad FC thrashed Assam Rifles 5-0 while defending champions Gokulam Kerala muffed chances galore and were held to a 2-2 by Army (red) in their opening Durand Football Cup matches on Sunday.

Panchkula: Bengaluru’s Chikkarangappa S saved his best for the last as he shot a final round of seven-under 65, to win the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship by two shots at Panchkula Golf Club (PGC) here on Saturday.

Chennai: Veterans Rajini Krishnan (RACR) and Jagan Kumar (TVS Racing) posted brilliant but contrasting victories in their respective categories to light up the second round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Saturday.

Kolkata: Riding on Uruguayan midfielder Adrian Luna's 71st-minute spot-kick conversion Kerala Blasters marked their Durand Football Cup debut with a 1-0 victory over Indian Navy at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) here on Saturday.

Pakistan seems optimistic,pushing ahead with its policy of backseat driving to keep the Taliban 2.0 in good humour and under control. Not the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, but Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence director-general, Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed has been assigned to play the principal role there. But the visit of the CIA Director William Joseph Burns to Islamabad for a secret meeting with Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar JavedBajwa and to discuss sensitive diplomacy, keeping Pakistan’s career diplomats away on the sidelines sends a message of anxiety even to Pak intelligentsia.

All indicators point to an unprecedented unemployment and debt crisis in India, both in urban and rural areas. Households are reeling under the crisis that has been crippling their growth and well being. The latest data sets, for unemployment and debts, released by National Statistics Office (NSO) show that situation has already worsened when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the country which has further exacerbated the crisis.

The so-called ‘survey’ by the IT sleuths at the offices of news websites is as ominous as all other raids routinely conducted by government agencies against those who refuse to toe the official line. Any questioning is responded with a raid or survey, the fancy name given to vindictive action.

How do we measure the time that has passed since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and crashed another in a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001? It has been 20 years; that’s of course the obvious answer. But there are many ways to mark the passing of time besides the ticking of the clock. How should we count the impact of the U.S.’ seemingly endless “War on Terror” that the 9/11 attacks were used to justify?

The Congress, despite facing internal opposition, decided to ally with the AIUDF of Badruddin Ajmal before the Assam assembly elections to dethrone BJP from power. The grand old party, however, failed to dislodge the saffron party from power. The dissensions, which somehow got silent keeping in mind the unity of the party during the election campaign in March this year started appearing, as expected, after the defeat. Leaders like RupjyotiKurmi, the party’s prominent tea tribe face and Sushmita Dev, the party’s prominent leader in the Barak Valley, left the party. So, the Congress party’s decision to break its alliance with AIUDF shouldnot be a big surprise.

The chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Arun Mishra, who has shown extreme form of alacrity in announcing a probe in the post poll violence and constituting a BJP controlled probe panel has intriguingly been maintaining a passive attitude towards the brutal assault and reign of terror let lose by the BJP and RSS cadres in Tripura.