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Fatorda, Goa: Odds are even as table topper Mohun Bagan takes on NorthEast United challenge, in the Hero Indian Super League at the JL Nehru Stadium in Fatorda on Sunday.

Vasco, Goa: East Bengal and Odisha, the only two winless sides in the Hero Indian Super League, will hope to kick-start the year with a victory, as they take on each other on Sunday at the Tilak Maidan Stadium, Vasco.

Perhaps for several understandable reasons the reality that 2020 has been a year of worldwide protest has been rather missing from the numerous media summaries of the last 12 months.

Lawyers are obsessed with Latin–a dead language with few takers. Often, lawyers unconsciously, and at times, consciously, pepper their conversations with a healthy dose of Latin. When you hear “qua”, “inter alia” and “quid pro quo” in small talk, more likely than not, you are in legal company. So lawyers will perhaps have no trouble when I use a Latin term to describe the year that went past for law, lawyers and the legal system–annus horribilis–the horrible year.

The erstwhile Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission was denounced by all shades of liberal opinion as an integral part of licence raj. However, despite the expressed intent of preventing monopolies, as the entity’s name suggested, India’s major corporate houses flourished as monopolies under its regime. Apparently, it restricted only new players to enter their preferred business, rather than obstructing the expansion of existing monopolies to expand into any sphere of activity at will.

In a feat of political compartmentalization with no domestic parallel, BJP has managed to sail through post-liberalisation India’s first recession year, the worst public health crisis since Independence, a protracted Chinese presence on the LAC and the largest farmer mobilisation in three decades. Despite the best attempts of BJP critics to connect these to governance failures, the party’s counter narrative was ready with simplistic responses.

New Delhi: Indian men and women's hockey team captains Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampaul have exuded confidence of winning a medal each at the Tokyo Olympics.

Bambolim, Goa: Odds favour Mumbai city as they take on Kerala Blasters in the first match of 2021 in the Hero Indian Super League at GMC Stadium, Bambolim here on Saturday.

Finally the Brexit deal has been approved by the UK House of Commons. The way the house proceeding was conducted amidst rebellion by a large section of the Labour MPs, it is certain that it would dominate the political discourse of the UK for long.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was an unprecedented effort to save the world’s largest democracy from the clutches of what had become the Leviathan of a selected few.