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Vasco, Goa: Jamshedpur will look to extend their six-match unbeaten run in the Hero Indian Super League when they take on Goa at Tilak Maidan, Vasco, on Wednesday.

What does the crystal ball say about the year 2021?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Battered and bruised by the drubbing it received in the local body elections, the Congress seems to have decided to attempt the Mission Impossible: Selecting candidates not on the basis of groups but solely on the winnability criterion.

Bangladeshis, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their Independence are pining for happier times as the Covid 19- ravaged 2020 limps to its end. But the sombre national mood has been leavened by a quiet pride, in that the country defying all odds, has economically out -performed its neighbours in South Asia, including India. After 50 years of freedom, overcoming myriad political crises and setbacks, Bangladesh edged ahead of India in terms of their per capita income, a major ‘first’ by any reckoning.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)is the largest workfare programme in the world with an average annual expenditure of over USD5 billion. And in recent times, the need for expanding the programme has gained prominence.

With green shoots visible after economic slowdown for several quarters at the beginning of 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman unleashed a medium term reform agenda in February Budget this year to make India a $5 trillion economy. But this plan went awry with Corona virus Pandemic afflicting the entire World. With prolonged lockdown in India and elsewhere the Indian economy went for tail spin. As a result there was recession in most parts of the World and practically all large economies barring, China, clocked negative growth, unprecedented for decades. With life limping back to normal on the hopes of vaccine becoming a reality, several economies including India are showing signs of economic recovery with the woes induced by the Corona virus pandemic slowly going away.

The continuing feud between two factions of the Nepal Communist Party (CPN), one led by Prime Minister K, P. Sharma Oli and the other led by party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, has landed Nepal in a first class political crisis. Oli had been losing support in his own party till he lost majority not only in the party but in the Parliament as well. But instead of resigning as Prime Minister, he approached the President, Vidya Devi Bhandari last Sunday and persuaded her to sign a presidential decree dissolving the Parliament (the House of the People).

The challenge to Sunday’s hegemonistic assertion of Home Minister Amit Shah that the TMC chief would remain alone just ahead of the ensuing assembly election has come from an unexpected quarter. Usually the professionals do not join issues or enter into unsolicited tiff with a politicians. But the poll strategist Prashant Kishor preferred to pick up the cudgels on behalf of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and reply to Shah’s spines against her.

New Delhi: World Champion PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead eight-member strong Indian challenge in the three tournaments to be played Bangkok, Thailand in January.

Goa: With only a point in their kitty after six Hero Indian Super League games, Odisha will be desperate to turn their fortunes around when they face NorthEast United at the GMC Stadium, here on Tuesday.