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Kalyani: Gokulam Kerala got back to winning ways, defeating NerocaC 4-1 at the Kalyani Municipal Stadium today to take their tally on the Hero I-League table to six points.

Fatorda, Goa: For NorthEast United, life in the Hero Indian Super League without Gerard Nus has been off to a rather positive start. Snapping a winless run against Jamshedpur propelled them all the way to fifth on the table.

Bambolim, Goa: A late error in the box by Ahmed Jahouh enabled Chennaiyin to hold Mumbai City to a 1-1 draw in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim on Monday.

During the 72 years of India turning Republic, the country has never witnessed taking out of two parallel parades to celebrate the auspicious day on which the Constitution to safe guard the interest and democratic aspiration of the people was implemented.

Subhas Chandra Bose is the latest non-Hindutva luminary to be appropriated by the BJP in its search to gain wider acceptability. Having no leaders of national stature of its own, the party and the Sanghparivar have had no option but to engage in a poaching operation involving the leading personalities of other parties.

For a long long time, right-wing thinktanks have wanted an elite university. A Vivekananda University with a proven brand image. They have not yet got it. Their unions have been active in student politics since the 1980s. From the 790-odd universities, they have chosen a handful to appropriate as they haven’t got one of their own. It is difficult to control a university in Tamil Nadu or Maharashtra or Bengal. The process has been painful but finally, they have two cabinet ministers from JNU.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The more things change, the more they remain the same. These words encapsulate the state of affairs in the Congress in Kerala right now.

When crores of people are without jobs, economy is suffering from twin crisis of demand and supply, reviving the MSMEs and opening up doors to create new ones, make sense. Budget 2021-22 must do that, since all the MSMEs were shut down with lockdown orders on March 24, 2020 rendering the crores of employed persons jobless. Millions of MSMEs are now not viable, could not reopen despite unlocking of the economy since June 1, 2020 and has very little chance to survive. Initiatives taken seem to be failing in their very purpose mainly because they are not found to be compatible with the present need. Even the viable units are facing insurmountable hurdles in their way to financial access.

Will the Gandhis continue to control the 135 year- old Congress party or will it shrink further? This is the question dogging not only the Congress leaders but also the millions of party workers. The party is gripped by the most serious leadership crisis now.

Every year, budgets come and budgets go. But the budget for fiscal year 2021-22 will be an extraordinary effort in the background of an unprecedented disruption in nation’s life.