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Fatorda, Goa: Bengaluru seem to have finally found the right balance. They kept their first clean sheet in11 games in their 2-0 win against East Bengal, probably their best and most clinical outing of the season.

Kolkata: Putting up a ruthless attacking display, Real Kashmir routed the Indian Arrows 6-0 in the sixth round of the Hero I-League at the VYBK Stadium in here on Thursday.

For the first time in independent India, a full-scale power-shift from public sector to financial private sector has been unleashed, crowning the trend particularly since 2016. Corona has knocked the bottom out of the economy, yet financial business has grown fatter. Productive capitalists, MSMEs, small traders and shopkeepers, workers, peasants, business persons, industrialists, have lost heavily, yet a handful of big corporate business has gained. Trends of forced disintegration of PSUs are clearly discernible: they are being disinvested in all sectors for the first time, except four areas. Rs 1.75 lakh crore sale target has been fixed for 2022. In a dramatic break from the past, government has announced privatization of at least two state-run banks and a general insurance company.

It is time to take account of the damages, and the repairs. The year of ruination with its pandemic, uprooting of the almost entire toiling masses, horror advent of four labour codes limiting the entire gamut of labour laws, each one won after blood soaked struggles of the working class, and finally the three farm laws that brutally slash the farmers rights and come as the extreme step in the packaging of the era that signals a new turn, despite the fact that the basics with all its negativity remains unchanged. The gap between the rich and poor keep widening.

After infusing a new life into the farmers’ protest which after the January 26 unfortunate development was gasping for survival, Rakesh Tikait, the leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, on Wednesday sought to know from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi “what will you do if youth removes you from power.”

Myanmar’s decade-old dalliance with democracy has ended. The army has seized power again and a national emergency has been declared for one year. This can be further extended if the army so wishes. The army had ruled for fifty years till 2011, when the first elections were held, which were neither free nor fair. The National League for Democracy (NLD) emerged victorious, with its leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues still behind the bars. It again swept to power in the third general elections held in November last year. The last ten years had seen an uneasy partnership between the elected government and the army, with the long and ominous shadow of the military always looming large behind the civil government.

Kalyani: Table-toppers Churchill Brothers were held to a goalless draw by former champions Aizawl in the Hero I League at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium here on Wednesday.

Bambolim: Kerala Blasters squandered a lead once again as Mumbai City came from behind to win 2-1 in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim, on Wednesday.

Kalyani: Mohammedan Sporting’s troubles in front of goal continued as the Black Panthers failed to score in their second consecutive game and drew for the fourth straight match against Neroca at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium here today.

Vasco, Goa: Just when all hope seemed lost for NorthEast United, Khalid Jamil's appointment as interim coach has proved to be a breath of fresh air.