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This has been a tumultuous year. Millions marched in the streets against police brutality and violence after the killing of George Floyd. They were tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets and percussion grenades, and run over, among any number of other civil liberties abuses. Their demand was “Black Lives Matter!”

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The local body elections, billed as the Semi Final is well and truly on, with the campaign shifting into top gear in the final lap. The three main contenders – the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), the Congress-headed United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are locked in a grim, no-holds-barred battle.

It’s a fact now: The majority of graduates and teachers of Maharashtra prefer Maha Vikas Aghadi over Bharatiya Janata Party. Uddhav Thackeray over Devendra Fadnavis. Sanjay Raut over Arnab Goswami. And, Uddhav’s Shiv Sena over Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. Uddhav’s ‘secular Shiv Sena,’ that is, shorn of Hindutva! Something which the BJP has been going to town with, gloating in the belief that Shiv Sena sans Hindutva was advantage-BJP, henceforth sole flag-bearer of Hindutva – ergo Hindu votes!

Chandigarh: Akshay Sharma, the overnight leader by one shot, carded a hard-fought one-under-71 on day three to continue as the sole leader in r the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational 2020 Presented by TAKE Sports at Chandigarh Golf Club here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Wrestling champion Ritu Phogat outclassed Philippines' Jomary Torres in the opening bout of Atomweight of ONE Championship at the Indoor Stadium in Singapore today to maintain her pro MMA 4-0 record.

The Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das’s projection about the trends in the Indian economy in the remaining four months of the current fiscal, has some sense of objectivity about the sectoral pattern of the industry’s operations but the analysis has some false sense of complacency about the possibility of immediate recovery.

The last nine months have tested our collective resilience like no other period in recent human history. A virus, the size of a fraction of human hair, has ensured that countries across the world are put under varying levels of lockdown, movement of people and social interactions have assumed a new meaning, businesses have been impacted, and lives have been lost. Everyone across the world is now pinning their hope on the arrival of a clinically proven and safe to administer vaccine.

Goa: Bengaluru got their first win of the season, notching up a 1-0 victory in a heated affair with arch-rivals Chennaiyin in the Hero Indian Super League Season 7 at the GMC Stadium, here on Friday.

Chandigarh: Local favourite Akshay Sharma, fired four-under-68 in testing conditions to emerge sole leader at the end of the second round of the Rs 1.5 crore Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational Presented by TAKE Sports at the Chandigarh Golf Club.

NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh: Sneha Singh held her nerves after hitting triple bogey as she carded t two over 74 last round to win the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour by four shots at the Noida Golf Course here on Friday.