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Vasco, Goa: Odds are even as Jamshedpur faces Kerala Blasters in the Hero ISL at the Tilak Maidan Stadium on Sunday.

Bambolim, Goa: Chennaiyin - just one win in their last eight games will take on Odisha which has yet to taste a win in the Hero Indian Super league at the GMC stadium here on Sunday.

Kolkata: Riding on Ali Faisal’s 58th-minute goal Mohammedan piped Sudeva Delhi 1-0 to start their Hero I League campaign with three points at the VYBK Stadium here on Saturday.

WASHINGTON: All around support is mounting, for the immediate removal of the president Donald Trump even as it is clearer than ever that major systemic changes are needed if genuine democracy is to be preserved in the United States.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s major bloomer was in assuming that his unexpected win of clear majority for the election symbol Lotus for the first time since 1952, in the battle on the basis of the economy as the focal point would compel the Sangh leaders to realize the futility of maintaining the religious issues as the focal point in electoral battles. Atal Behari Vajpayee had also won in 1998 by pushing to back burners the controversial issues and on the common minimum programme of the coalition. NaMo had conclusively proved that for majority of the electorate and particularly for the young, religion was no more relevant than hard and harsh struggle for their pursuit of economic comforts in the modern era.

When on 28 September last year activists and right to information (RTI) campaigners all over the world were commemorating the International Day for Universal Access to Information, we, the RTI activists of Kashmir, were holding a silent protest in the heart of Srinagar city. We had nothing to “commemorate” or “celebrate”, as the Jammu and Kashmir RTI Act, 2009, had been repealed soon after Article 370 was effectively abrogated on 5 August 2019 by the central government.

The exercises for making the first budget during pandemic and the eighth of the Narendra Modi government are on in full swing as the 2021-22 budget will be presented on February 1.Only three weeks are left and most of the stake holders have been covered. On Friday, the economists had a session with the Prime Minister through video-conferencing and interestingly, the discussions and the suggestions had no special focus on creation of jobs on a crash basis. The feeling is that the recovery process will lead automatically to the creation of jobs but that is not happening.

As expected, the eighth round of talks between the farmers unions and the Narendra Modi Government ministers failed on January 8. A government subservient to the domestic corporates and FDI could only act in the way the BJP government has done. Hiding under the hollow slogan of ‘Sabka Saath’, the government intends to prepare ground for ‘Adani-Ambani raj’ in Indian agriculture. These Swadeshivadis are eager to spread red carpets for Monsanto and Cargill in our farming sector.

Petrol prices have hit an all-time high, with pumps charging Rs 84.20 in the national capital. The previous highest was recorded in October 2018. There have also been proportionate increases in the price of diesel, though it is still below the peak recorded in July last year.

India needs to tackle Pakistan through “deft handling” rather than “romanticising its political approach” and the country gained little by “over-talking” the surgical strikes of 2016, the late Pranab Mukherjee has written in his memoirs that also recall his “very cordial ties” with PM Narendra Modi who he said earned his prime ministership by leading BJP to a historic win.