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Goa: Chennaiyin and Mohun Bagan were left frustrated as they played out a goalless draw in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, here on Tuesday.

Goa: It has been a mixed campaign for Hyderabad so far. Manuel Marquez's side was unbeaten after five games but now back-to-back defeats have seen them slip to eighth on the table of the Hero Indian Super League.

New Delhi: While the pandemic disrupted their on the field activities, the Indian women hockey players did a commendable job off the field by raising over Rs 20 Lakhs funds to feed 1000 families that were affected by the nationwide lockdowns.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath in May 2019 no one would have dreamt of many unexpected challenges he is facing today. Even otherwise, when he returned to power for the second time Modi inherited a long list of problems unresolved during his first term. No doubt BJP won more seats than in 2014 but he needed to fix the unfinished agenda in agriculture, economy, international relations, and internal social disharmony.

Much has been made of the fact that the long-awaited Brexit deal is the first in the “modern era” to erect barriers rather than dismantle them.

With home as the world, 2020 has been a bonanza for couch potatoes and others in India amidst a raging debate about large-screen or small. The year began with two exceptional films, big screen releases in last January and February, and exceptionally underplayed promotion-wise and review-wise, given the grapevine campaigns by patriarchal misogynists against them – that they were anti-men – Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak starring Deepika Padukone and Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad starring Taapsee Pannu.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is now quite vocal in opposing the three farm laws and has extended unequivocal support to the farmers agitation for the repeal of the acts. She had talks with the agitation leaders and send a delegation of Trinamool MPs to talk to them at Singhu border of Delhi.

BHOPAL: Democratic institutions are the worst hit in Madhya Pradesh. The ill-effect is so serious that the Vidhan Sabha continues to be headless. The Vidhan Sabha could not elect a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker. The affairs of the Vidhan Sabha are being conducted by pro-tem Speaker. According to the Constitution, the pro-tem Speaker's only job is to administer oath to the newly elected members, but besides that, pro-tem Speaker Rameshwar Sharma is acting as the full-fledged Speaker. He is signing files, issuing orders, undertaking tours. It was expected that the Speaker may be elected in the three-day session which was to be held from December 28 to 30, but it was called off after many legislators were found to be Covid-positive.

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014 at the centre, the saffron party, keeping in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s Act East policy, has always given stress to increase its footprint in the north-eastern region of the country. The saffron party never had any significant footprints in the region, which was once known as the traditional stronghold of the Congress party. To counter the Congress, BJP formed the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA), a conglomeration of many anti-Congress regional parties.

It is a known fact that the Congress leaders are well versed with the art of committing hara-kiri. They cherish to live in their make-believe world and refuse to accept the ground realities. Even in the existing political situation when they and their parry have been completely marginalised, when even the regional parties prefer to keep them poles apart, they nurse the illusion that they are born to rule. It is their foolish sense of inflated ego that they refuse to learn the art of electoral alliance and master the skill of bringing together divergent political parties.