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Fatorda, Goa: Goa needed to progress to the playoffs was a draw. That they achieved with an efficient performance as they held Hyderabad to a goalless draw at the Fatorda Stadium here on Sunday, setting a new Hero Indian Super League record for the longest unbeaten run in the process.

Dusseldorf: Indian Women gave a much better display but went down 1-0 to World No 3 Germany for their second successive defeat in the four-match hockey series in Dusseldorf on Sunday.

Kolkata: Pedro Manzi’s second-half brace — a long-range stunner, and a header — helped 10-man Mohammedan beat Real Kashmir 2-0 at the VYBK Stadium here on Sunday to book a top-six spot in the Hero I-League with 16 points from 10 matches.

New Delhi: It was a flop show by the two Indian pairs as they failed in the qualifiers in the Skeet Mixed Team competition at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun stage, in Cairo, Egypt.

Bambolim, Goa: Mumbai City overpowered Mohun Bagan 2-0 in their last Hero Indian Super League fixture at the GMC Stadium Bambolim, here on Sunday and secured their first League Winners Shield and a place in the AFC Champions League.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an intricate political enigma. Very few have been able to read it through variety of facets of his personality as the human being and as an astute politician that emerged in two decades of his personality, thirteen years as the Gujarat chief minister and last seven years as the Prime Minister. He was merely a backroom boy in the party office for twenty years and few came to know of his ability and his organizing capacity during the Advani’s Rathyatra through seven states from Somnath to Ayodhya in 1990. Advani may have been impressed by the unique quality of his temper of not getting inflated by praise or be cast down by criticism. It may have prompted Advani to push forward his name as the potential leader of Gujarat to replace the state chief minister Keshubhai Patel.

Bambolim, Goa: With nothing at stake, the contest turned out to be a 11-goal thriller as Odisha beat East Bengal 6-5 while setting up the all-time Hero Indian Super League (ISL) record for the most goals in a match at the GMC Bambolim Stadium on Saturday.

New Delhi: Deepak Kumar (52kg) failed to clear the last hurdle as he lost the final face-off in a split decision against two times European Champion and Bulgaria’s Daniel Asenov 3-2 and had to be content with a silver medal at the 72nd Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria on Saturday.

Fatorda, Goa: Goa and Hyderabad will fight it out for the final playoff berth in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium here on Sunday.

The schedule of 2021 state polls has been notified on the heels of another round of project announcements by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tamil Nadu on a second visit to the State on February 25. The same day, he launched BJP poll campaign for Tamil Nadu from Coimbatore. (Tamil Nadu and Kerala will have one-day poll on April 6 and counting on May 2.)