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6:57 PM

Hyderabad FC announce 26-man squad for Indian Super League

Hyderabad FC on Sunday announced their final 26-man squad for the upcoming edition of the Indian Super League, which will be held in three venues of Goa for the second successive season.

The 2020-21 season saw a number of players stand up and put in some brilliant performances for Manolo Marquez's side and he has up to 15 of the same players to work with, this time around as well.
 

The squad:

 

Goalkeepers: Laxmikant Kattimani, Gurmeet Singh, Lalbiakhlua Jongte

 

Defenders: Akash Mishra, Asish Rai, Chinglensana Singh, Juanan Gonzalez, Pritam Soraisam, Nikhil Prabhu, Nim Dorjee Tamang

 

Midfielders: Joao Victor, Mohammad Yasir, Souvik Chakrabarti, Hitesh Sharma, Sahil Tavora, Nikhil Poojary, Edu Garcia, Mark Zothanpuia, Halicharan Nazary, Abdul Rabeeh

 

Attackers: Bart Ogbeche, Javi Siverio, Joel Chianese, Rohit Danu, Aniket Jadhav, Aaren D'Silva.

6:06 PM

Delhi Traffic Police cracks down on pollution with teams at 170 spots

The Delhi Traffic Police has intensified its crackdown against pollution violators and those still plying old vehicles with deployment of teams at 170 locations across the city, officials said on Sunday.

 

The crackdown has been undertaken to execute the city government's Winter Action Plan against rising air pollution.

 

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday in a meeting had announced emergency measures to deal with the pollution crisis the city is currently facing.

5:49 PM

Northeast was neglected, considered through political lens: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the northeastern region of the country was neglected as overall development of the country was seen on a piecemeal basis and viewed through a political lens.

 

Talking about the long prevailing neglect of the northeastern region, Modi said that earlier, our rivers from the northern and western parts of the country used to come to the east, but the Ganges of development used to stop before reaching here (the Northeast).

 

He said the region's huge potential will be unleashed by creating modern infrastructure and improving connectivity.

 

He expressed confidence that work being done in the region will take the country to new heights of growth.

5:49 PM

COP26 outcome not in line with expectations, but not hopeless either: Greenpeace India

Greenpeace India on Sunday said the outcome of the international climate conference COP26 is not in line with the expectations of the people and the countries already facing extreme weather events but is not hopeless either.

 

As imperfect as the final outcome may be, the goal of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius may still be within reach, Avinash Chanchal, climate campaigner at Greenpeace India, told PTI.

5:47 PM

Hybrid work model to stay in 2022 with fine tweaks, say experts

With companies bringing in digital transformation and innovations to ensure work continuity amid the Covid-19, a successful hybrid work environment would find its relevance in 2022 too even as pandemic concerns have eased, industry experts have said.

 

The hybrid model means employees work partly on-site or in the office and partly remotely depending upon work requirement and productivity.

 

Certain industries are thriving on the back of the hybrid model amid the pandemic challenges and the companies are expected to tweak the model to get the best out of it in the next year, experts opined.

5:46 PM

CrPC section 144 imposed in Pune

The Pune district administration on Sunday imposed section 144 of the CrPC in view of the stone-pelting that took place in some parts of Maharashtra recently post protests on Friday against the violence in Tripura in late October.

 

The order, issued by Collector Rajesh Deshmukh, prohibits people from disseminating messages and posts on social media platforms that could create communal rifts among groups, as well as holding meetings etc, an official said.

5:46 PM

BJP weaponising the pain of Kashmiri Pandits to garner votes: Mehbooba Mufti

Accusing the BJP of weaponising the pain of Kashmiri Pandits to garner votes and further its "divisive politics", PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said Kashmiri Muslims have to work harder on seeing the return of their Hindu brethren in a dignified manner.

 

She said some BJP-linked persons, who are sitting in the studios in Delhi and claim to represent the community, are spitting venom and are sabotaging any meeting point between the Pandits and Muslims of the valley.

5:19 PM

India needs collaboration, continuity to solve air pollution problem: Experts

With Delhi's air quality index fluctuating between severe and very poor category, environment activists and health experts expressed concern over the situation and said that unless there is collaboration and continuity, the country would not be able to solve the crisis.

 

The experts also stated that there should be a plan to decrease pollution from all sources on a long-term basis rather than just taking emergency measures.

 

Vimlendu Jha, an environmental activist told ANI, "In the last 10 days, Delhi has seen extreme severe air quality. The average was 500." Read more

4:49 PM

Russia starts delivery of S-400 missile systems to India: Russian official

Russia has started the delivery of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to India, according to a senior Russian official.

 

Russia's Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Dmitry Shugaev told Sputnik news that the deliveries are going as planned.

 

"The supplies of the S-400 air defence system to India have started and are proceeding on schedule," he said.

4:32 PM

Centre brings ordinance to extend tenure of ED, CBI Directors up to 5 years

The Centre on Sunday moved an ordinance that extends the tenure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) director and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director to five years.

 

At present, Director of CBI and ED have been appointed for two-year tenure in office by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) Act, 2003.

 

President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the ordinance.

4:24 PM

Future Retail independent directors says Amazon's internal emails show it misled CCI

Independent directors of Future Retail Ltd have shot off another letter to the Competition Commission of India (CCI), citing internal communications of Amazon to establish its contradictory statements before courts and the anti-monopoly body and sought revocation of nod to Amazon-Future Coupons deal.

 

They accused Amazon of submitting "completely opposite information'' which was "contradictory" to Amazon's own internal communications regarding the US giant's 2019 investments into FRL's promoter company.

 

The letter, a copy of which has been reviewed by PTI, also says that the US giant was initially planning to pump money into FRL through a proposed foreign portfolio investment.

 

4:17 PM

India is on track to achieve historic highs in exports: Goyal

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said India's economy was witnessing a bounce back in every sphere, and the country is well on track to achieve historical highs in goods and services exports.

 

Goyal said India is on course to achieve USD 400 billion of merchandise exports in the current financial year ending March.

4:17 PM

Donald Trump, Boris Johnson being elected 'bad sign for whole world': Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said that elections of Donald Trump (Former United States President) and Boris Johnson (Current Prime Minister of UK) were a bad sign for the whole world.

 

Trump had been elected as the 45th President of the US in 2016 while Johnson became UK's Prime Minister three years later after he replaced Theresa May.

 

"I have to say at the last two elections, first with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, that's really a bad sign for the whole world that this can happen because everybody knew beforehand that it will not work," Klopp told Mid-Point Podcast, as reported by Goal.com.

4:16 PM

UP govt has not taken any big decision in last 4.5 years: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday slammed the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government for not taking any big decision in the last 4.5 years.

 

His remarks came during the 'Samajwadi Party Vijay Rath yatra' held in Kushinagar ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

4:05 PM

Already out of reckoning, Gokulam win 3-1 against Uzbek side

Indian club Gokulam Kerala FC claimed a 3-1 victory over Uzbek side FC Bunyodkor in their final AFC Women's Club Championship group stage game.

 

The win notwithstanding, Gokulam Kerala are out of the tournament as they lost their first two games to Amman SC and Shahrdari Sirjan.