Congress President Sonia Gandhi&nbsp;has told the Congress that its not enough to just be aggressive on social media, its far more important&nbsp;to go to the people directly. At an internal meeting to discuss the rejuvenation of the Congress&nbsp;and to formulate a strategy for the upcoming state elections she said, "Democracy has never been at greater peril than it is now... the mandate of 2019 is now being misused and abused in a most dangerous fashion". The party has also announced a national level&nbsp;padyatra&nbsp;on October 2 against the economic slowdown. A notable absence at this meeting was Rahul Gandhi.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has told the Congress that its not enough to just be aggressive on social media, its far more important to go to the people directly. At an internal meeting to discuss the rejuvenation of the Congress and to formulate a strategy for the upcoming state elections she said, "Democracy has never been at greater peril than it is now... the mandate of 2019 is now being misused and abused in a most dangerous fashion". The party has also announced a national level padyatra on October 2 against the economic slowdown. A notable absence at this meeting was Rahul Gandhi.

The sports Authority of India confirmed on Friday that several Indian hockey stars including captain&nbsp;Manpreet Singh have tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;Apart from Manpreet, defender Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh and drag-flicker Varun Kumar are the others who have contracted the virus.&nbsp;Manpreet said in a statement that he has self-quarantined at the SAI campus.&nbsp;The players tested positive after returning to the national hockey camp at the SAI South Centre in Bengaluru following a month-long break. The players were earlier stranded at the centre for over two months when a national lockdown was imposed to contain the virus.

Bangladesh football team's 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign has&nbsp;dealt&nbsp;a&nbsp;huge blow as 11 players from their squad have tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;The infections were confirmed after 24 of 36 players scheduled to join a training camp were tested.&nbsp;Bangladesh Football Federation General Secretary in a statement said that all the players were asymptomatic.&nbsp;Bangladesh are at the bottom of Group E in the 2022 World Cup qualifying tournament and were scheduled to play their remaining 4 matches earlier this year but they were suspended&nbsp;due to the pandemic and are now due to take place in October and November.

The International Cricket Council met via video conference on Friday and in a major announcement have decided to postpone the next Women's 50-over World Cup from February 2021 to 2022. The members also&nbsp;decided that the 2021 World T20 will happen in India, whereas the postponed 2020 edition will be hosted by Australia itself but in 2022. The World T20 was scheduled to take place Down Under from October but ICC decided to delay it due to Covid-19. Cricket's governing body also decided that India will remain the hosts of the 50-over World Cup in 2023.

The BCCI and the England and Wales Cricket Board on Friday decided to postpone England's limited-overs tour to India until&nbsp;early 2021. It was scheduled to be played from Late September to early October but due to the present Covid-19 situation in India, the 2 boards were left&nbsp;with no option but to cancel the tour. The BCCI&nbsp;and ECB are now in talks to arrange an all-format tour in January-March next year. BCCI&nbsp;secretary Jay Shah in a statement said that he was pleased with the way the two boards managed the situation.

Just a day after Suresh&nbsp;Raina&nbsp;said that MS Dhoni&nbsp;is pumped up to play the IPL&nbsp;in UAE, MSD&nbsp;has hit the ground running in order to prepare for the cash-rich league. The Chennai Super Kings skipper had net session at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Jharkhand State Cricket Association&nbsp;indoor facility. Since there aren't many bowlers available in Ranchi&nbsp;at the moment due to the pandemic,&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;is practicing with bowling machines for the time being.&nbsp;A JSCA&nbsp;office-bearer told the New Indian Express that Dhoni&nbsp;did batting practice for two days over the weekend, but has not returned since then. With CSK&nbsp;players expected to gather in Chennai on August 20, before flying to the UAE, Dhoni&nbsp;has a couple of weeks to get in shape as much as possible.&nbsp;

All 162 members of the&nbsp;Caribbean Premier League including players, officials and administrators have tested negative for Covid-19. They have arrived in Trinidad and Tobago and will now be kept in quarantine for 14 days&nbsp;in the official hotel. Accordance to the current protocols in Trinidad &amp; Tobago, if any member of the party is found to have contracted the virus they will be removed from the hotel and placed in further isolation. CPL starts from August 18 with 33 games to be played at 2 venues in Trinidad.&nbsp;

The iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground&nbsp;may have been host to the Boxing Day Test every year but it may not be the case this time around. Cricket Australia is considering to shift the iconic Test due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Melbourne.&nbsp;According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Adelaide has emerged as a front runner to host this year's Boxing&nbsp;Day Test vs India scheduled to be played from December 26. The Aussie cricket board is expected to make a staggering 300 million Australian dollars from the Test series against India and&nbsp;their chairman Earl Eddings has called for an urgent meeting of the national cricket cabinet next week to discuss ways for smooth conduct of the series.&nbsp;

The 2020 edition of the iconic London marathon will be restricted to professional runners only as the country fights the Covid-19 pandemic. The marathon&nbsp;which was delayed due to the outbreak will now be staged on 4th October and will use a different route from usual with only elite athletes&nbsp;permitted to participate.&nbsp; The athletes will stay in a biosecure bubble&nbsp;and will run around a new course in St James' Park without spectators. The timings from the run will be eligible to qualify&nbsp;for the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. The organisers confirmed that the public marathon along with spectators can return in 2021 if the pandemic is under control.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Italian football club AS Roma was taken over by American billionaire Dan&nbsp;Friedkin. In a deal which has been reported over $700 million was completed and the take over process is bound to be finished by the end of the next month. The Rome based football club had American owners before the Texas-based Friedkin Group took over the control of the team. The 3-time Serie&nbsp;A champions &amp; 9-time Copa&nbsp;Italia&nbsp;winners were in talks for a take over early in 2020 but the negotiations were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;&nbsp;

31-year-old Brazilian footballer&nbsp;Willian is all set to move from Chelsea to Arsenal. Reports in the British press suggest that the Gunners have offered a 3-year-contract with a 100,000 pounds per week in salary. Chelsea meanwhile is fighting hard to make the winger stay but the player has&nbsp;reportedly agreed to the terms with Arsenal. Willian&nbsp;moved to Chelsea from a Russian club and has been an integral part of the unit since 2013 and has made 234 appearances for the blues while scoring 34 goals.&nbsp;

As the IPL&nbsp;teams prepare to go to the Middle East to play in the 13th edition of the tournament, Chennai Super Kings management has decided that their stars will travel without the families. According to a report in the Times of India, MS Dhoni's team will travel to set up a camp in Dubai without the families in the initial part of the tournament. The team will assemble in Chennai by 19th August and will depart for Dubai the next day on a chartered flight. In Dubai, the team plans to stay in a 5star hotel next to the iconic Burj&nbsp;Khalifa&nbsp;and has rented out a couple of floors with separate air condition ducts. BCCI's&nbsp;strict SOPs&nbsp;prevent the players from interacting with outsiders as they aim to hold a 3-week preparatory camp ahead of the start and not allowing family members was a conscious decision by the management.&nbsp;

6-time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton has confirmed that he will not re-negotiate his 40 million pounds a year deal with Mercedes in Formula 1. The British racer confirmed that he doesn't feel right to negotiate a new deal when people all around him are losing jobs due to the pandemic. Hamilton's deal with the British racing team ends after this season and he is likely to extend his stay with Mercedes. Meanwhile, Hamilton's teammate&nbsp;Valterri&nbsp;Bottas&nbsp;has signed a contract extension which will keep him with Mercedes&nbsp;until the end of the 2021 season.&nbsp;

A career-best innings from Shan&nbsp;Masood and a late surge by the bowlers put Pakistan in total control over England in the 1st Test in Manchester. Despite wickets falling around him,&nbsp;Shan&nbsp;Masood&nbsp;cracked his 3rd consecutive Test hundred and scored 156 in the 1st innings which helped Pakistan recover from a middle-order collapse to finish at a challenging 326. Stuart Broad and Jofra&nbsp;Archer picked up 3 wickets each for hosts England.&nbsp;In reply, Shaheen&nbsp;Afridi and Mohammad Abbas&nbsp;rattled the English top-order with some precision bowling as the hosts huffed and puffed to 92/4 at stumps on Day 2. England still trail by 234 runs with Ollie Pope going steady at 46 not out.&nbsp;

After a long break of over 4 months, Champions League football returns tonight as Manchester City play host to Spanish giants Real Madrid in the 2nd leg of the round of 16 clash. After scoring 2 away goals in the 1st leg, the advantage lies with Pep Guardiola's men as they hope to knock out Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane's side from the top European league. Gareth Bale was left out of the side that is currently in Manchester as his future with the Spanish club once again hangs in balance. In the 2nd match of the night, Cristiano&nbsp;Ronaldo will lead Juventus&nbsp;against Lyon in the 2nd leg of their round of 16 tie. The visiting Lyon side will be hoping to take advantage of their 1st leg 1-0 win over Juventus.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Just 2 days after Vivo&nbsp;decided to pull out as the head sponsor of&nbsp;IPL&nbsp;2020, BCCI&nbsp;has officially suspended its partnership with the Chinese mobile&nbsp;phone&nbsp;giant. Key BCCI office bearers including president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah had a conference call with Vivo representatives along with IPL chairman Brijesh Patel and both parties decided to terminate the agreement.&nbsp;Vivo though will be back in 2021 and will continue till 2023 as they had paid Rs. 2199 crore for a 5-year contract in 2018. BCCI&nbsp;will now invite a new title sponsor for the the postponed 13th edition of the&nbsp;IPL&nbsp;which is due to start from September 19 in the UAE.

Though the BCCI&nbsp;has laid down strict measures for players, ground&nbsp;officials and staff members for a coronavirus-proof IPL&nbsp;in the UAE&nbsp;but Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness&nbsp;Wadia&nbsp;feels that even a single case of Covid-19 could doom the IPL. He told PTI&nbsp;that the only thing they are concerned about is the safety of the players and all others involved. He once again reiterated his belief that the 13th edition of the cash-rich league will be the most-watched IPL ever and he would change his name if it's not. BCCI&nbsp;has already sent out the Standard Operating&nbsp;Procedures for the franchises to follow, which&nbsp;requires everyone involved in the league to be part of a bio-secure environment until the tournament concludes.

The five Olympic rings floating on a barge in Tokyo Bay were removed on Thursday for what is being called "maintenance," and officials say the rings will return in time for next year's Games.&nbsp;The Olympic rings have been in Tokyo Bay's Odaiba Marine Park since early this year, as many of Tokyo's venues are located around the bay. Had the Games not been postponed due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, Olympics would have been on it's final stage&nbsp;with the original closing ceremony set for August 8.&nbsp;The Tokyo Games are now due to open on 23 July 2021.

As Indian cricket fans eagerly wait to see MS Dhoni&nbsp;back in action once the IPL&nbsp;starts September&nbsp;19, Suresh Raina&nbsp;has doubled up the excitement. In an interview with the Hindustan Times,&nbsp;MSD's&nbsp;Chennai Super Kings teammate&nbsp;said that&nbsp;Dhoni&nbsp;is all pumped up and looking forward to going to UAE&nbsp;to entertain his fans. Raina&nbsp;added that&nbsp;MSD was practising really hard before the pandemic and hopefully, we will see his helicopter shot soon. Dhoni&nbsp;was training at the CSK&nbsp;camp for the 13th edition of the IPL&nbsp;but players had to go home as the camp had to be called-off due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.

The Wrestling Federation of India has decided to further postpone the women's national camp, which was scheduled to begin from the 2nd week of August, due to fear of the coronavirus. The building next to the Sports Authority of India centre in Lucknow&nbsp;was turned into a Covid&nbsp;care facility by the Utter Pradesh&nbsp;government and the wrestlers feared contracting the virus as many patients have been quarantined in that building.&nbsp;Vinesh Phogat,&nbsp;Sakshi Malik and Pooja&nbsp;Dhanda&nbsp;were among the women wrestlers who had to start training in the Lucknow&nbsp;facility. The men's national camp, which was to be held simultaneously&nbsp;in Sonepat, has also been postponed.&nbsp;

Several top tennis stars including Rafael Nadal&nbsp;pulling out of this year's US Open may have upset their fans but it's a welcome news for India's Sumit&nbsp;Nagal&nbsp;as he has&nbsp;received a direct entry into the main draw of the tournament. Top 128 stars received a direct entry and Sumit, who is ranked 127th in the world was the last man to enter it directly. Last year, the 22-year-old had to win all his qualifying matches to reach his maiden Grand&nbsp;Slam main draw in New York and famously won a set in his 1st round match against legendary Roger Federer&nbsp;but eventually lost the encounter. The US Open is set to begin from August 31 but dark clouds loom over its future due to the pandemic.

The global outbreak of the deadly coronavirus&nbsp;that has hit the sporting calendar badly might&nbsp;also pose problems for the next month's&nbsp;India&nbsp;Open, an Olympic Badminton qualifying event for Tokyo 2020. The uncertainty has come after&nbsp;the Indian health ministry and ministry of external affairs&nbsp;asked&nbsp;the Badminton Association of India to furnish details about the 60 plus Chinese&nbsp;player contingent expected to be a part&nbsp;of the event&nbsp;before taking a call on their entry in the super 500 tournaments. The BAI&nbsp;who is optimistic about China's participation has directed questions to their Chinese&nbsp;counterpart seeking urgent health updates.

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