TV CHANNELS & LIVE STREAM The Star Sports Network have the exclusive broadcasting rights of the ISL. The games will be telecast with the option of English and/or Hindi commentary over their bouquet of television as well as digital platforms. Commentary will also be available in vernacular languages across India. TEAM NEWS Injured - Gurpreet Chhabal Doubtful - None Suspended - Rehenesh TP (red card) Key Players - Marcinho, Halicharan Narzary, Rowllin Borges...

On Sunday though, it all came crashing down for Teddy Sheringham’s men in front of their home fans at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan stadium in Kolkata. Once again their football was pleasing to the eye to begin with as they started the game very much on the front foot. But once again, the two-time champions were found wanting in the final third of the pitch. Four goals were smashed into the Kolkata net on the night with last season’s Golden Boot winner Marcelinho being the destructor-in-chief for FC Pune City....

“The management above me has been very supportive. They’ve seen us attack in the previous few games. It’s just about not conceding silly goals. We’ll have to work hard.” He also praised the performance of Mumbai City FC who picked up a 1-0 victory over Chennnaiyin FC last weekend. “Mumbai City is a very strong team. They’ve got real qualities going forward.” Former Newcastle United full-back Ryan Taylor was roped in to fill the void left by Carl Baker, who was ruled out for the season due to injury....

While there never really was much defending to do for both sides on a night where the battle was primarily played in the midfield, no defender will say no to a clean-sheet. After all, the fact that the two sides find themselves fighting it out for a place in the finals is partly down to their solid defence over the course of the league stages. The Blues held the best rearguard in the league, conceding only 16 goals while the Stallions were third best in that department having conceded 21....

Head coach Steve Coppell did not mince words to express his displeasure over scheduling as Jamshedpur has to play five games in a span of 16 days. “I don’t think that there should be a three-day turnaround. I presume every team has that. I haven’t checked. I think it is unnecessary that with 10 teams, some teams have 9-10 days gap between games and the scheduling can be a little bit more kind....

A tribe in the village of Yaohnanen on the island of Tanna in the nation of Vanuatu believe Prince Philip to be a god. It is estimated that 700 people ascribe to the so-called Prince Philip Movement out of the island’s total population of 29,000. The village is in a tropical rainforest with limited communications with the outside world but because of their idolization of the prince, the locals have frequently featured in media reports....

The two countries also spoke of increasing tourism, creating jobs, sharing technology, making diverse economies and addressing the issues of water scarcity. The UAE and Israel first started formalizing their relationship in September. Since then, tens of thousands of Israeli tourists have come to the UAE, Dubai and Abu Dhabi being the hot spots for tourism. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. There was extremely little mention of the Palestinians or the fact that barely two weeks ago, Israel was a country still at war....

Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet gave a green light to the cease-fire after accepting an Egyptian proposal. An anonymous Security Cabinet official said the end to violence would occur at 2 a.m., the Associated Press reported. “The political leaders emphasized that the reality on the ground will be that which determines the future of the campaign,” the statement from Netanyahu’s office said. Israeli senior defense officials asserted “great accomplishments” were achieved in their military operation against Hamas before recommending to accept the Egyptian proposal....

Israel rejected the report, saying its Arab minority enjoys full civil rights. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the report “fiction” and said the claims were “preposterous and false.” “Human Rights Watch is known to have a long-standing anti-Israeli agenda, actively seeking for years to promote boycotts against Israel,” the Ministry said in a statement. “This report is yet another part of the organization’s ongoing campaign…with no connection to facts or reality on the ground....

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid took to Twitter to insist that the removal of Iron Dome funding would be temporary. The move pitted progressives against Democratic leadership, who support providing the military aid to Israel. Although the legislation passed in the House, it could face a roadblock in the Senate, where a large majority of Republicans oppose the bill’s suspension of the debt limit. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md....

“As always, we’re watching those areas, both the Syrian front, as well as the Blue Line with Lebanon,” IDF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus told Newsweek during a press briefing on Wednesday, “and we’re tracking Hezbollah movements, and we’re tracking activities in Syria as well.” “So far,” he said, “the situation is stable, and there are no abnormal events in those areas.” But Hezbollah, which has fought two past wars with Israel, insisted the absence of action today does not reflect a lack of support from the powerful Shiite Muslim movement for Palestinian resistance groups such as the Sunni Muslim Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad....

The Arab-dominated Joint List faction of the Israeli government’s Knesset legislative branch had not previously made a recommendation for prime minister since 1992, the Jerusalem Post noted, and their vote this past week was intended not only to remove Netanyahu, but also to rebuff Trump. On Sunday, Joint List leader Ayman Odeh made history by endorsing Gantz to head the next government, while Ahmad Tibi, the head of Joint List party Arab Movement for Change, said the move to oust Netanyahu was made in part for diplomatic reasons....

If the site’s a secret, it’s badly kept. Russian spy satellites have amassed a nice albumful of snapshots of the facility, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas on Nellis Air Force Base. UFO groupies know it as Area 51, or Groom Lake: hundreds have flocked to the perimeter, convinced the air force is reproducing a captured flying saucer at the site. It was also the testing ground for the U-2 spy plane and the F-117A stealth....

As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, vulnerable households are anxiously waiting for Congress to restore unemployment benefits, provide another round of stimulus checks, and protect them from evictions. But when and if Congress agrees on a new relief package, there’s still the problem of how to protect them from losing their electricity. When the pandemic lockdown began, the initial impact on energy was to lower demand as businesses closed, and demand has stayed low in the EU, where it remains below 10 percent below pre-COVID levels....

The old “states’ rights” and “let’s take power out of Washington, put it into the states” idea — it works a whole lot better if you’ve never met a member of a state legislature before. Oh, my God, those people make congressmen look like geniuses. Look around the country. And you tell me whether you like the things that are going on in state legislatures across the country. I come from Louisiana, so I grew up with the notion of states’ rights, which was always, always an excuse for opposing racial integration....

Perot’s problem could be that he comes out of a line of truth is actually more common than it is in politics. “Politicians may be kiting checks or sleeping with their contributors’ wives, but they don’t lie nearly as much as businessmen,” says Washington publicist Frank Mankiewicz, who has known a lot of both. That’s partly because politicians are more accountable to the press, Congress and other institutions where lying can get you into trouble....

I would have argued that most U.S. multinationals such as IBM or JPMorgan Chase are deeply rooted in their host societies, employing local citizens, contributing critical technology and doing many important tasks for the local economies. The phenomenon of foreign investment is no longer controversial; indeed, pretty much everyone wants it. Consumers the world over operate relatively independently of geopolitics, and most people drawn to American products and services will continue to buy them because of their quality or cachet....

But it’s time for him to go. Netanyahu became Israel’s youngest-ever prime minister in 1996. His tenure had its ups and downs. Visiting him a month into his first premiership, I wrote appreciatively that he “glowed and looked to the future.” That glow dimmed during his weak and amoral first prime ministry, to the point that in 1999 I wrote an exposé of his failed Golan Heights policy and reluctantly rooted for his opponent to win the election....