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New Delhi: It was a day of double delight for India as hosts won both Men and women trap team titles to finish ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol/ Shotgun stage with whopping 30 medals to make it as their most successful ever ISSF World Cup event which concluded at Dr Karni Singh Shooting range here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Another mixed pair and another Gold. Vijayveer Sidhu and Tejaswini repeated the script in the 25M Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team event ,as they defeated compatriots Gurpreet Singh and Abhidnya Ashok Patil 9-1 in one sided final on the penultimate day of the ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol/ Shotgun stage at Dr Karni Singh Shooting range here on Saturday.

Kolkata: Gokulam Kerala were crowned champions of the Hero I-League in spectacular fashionas they came from a goal down to score four goals in the second half and register a 4-1 win over TRAU at the KBK Stadium here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Ankit Narwal and Naorem Babyrojisana Chanu will spearhead 20- member (10men,10 women) Indian squad in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships to be held at Kielce, Poland from April 10-24.

As the first phase of the polling in Bengal and Assam began on March 27 for the assembly elections, I looked back sitting before the television at the first assembly elections in West Bengal in 1952 in which I actively participated as a campaigner. I was ten years old, a school student. But my leftist family background helped in becoming active workers of CPI soon after our family arriving in Calcutta in 1950 as refugees from East Pakistan. It was a period of intense struggle for our family for survival but for me, Calcutta was the city of hope which will revolutionise the Indian society.

The fresh wave of COVID-19 spreading in India with new ‘variants of concern’ is creating new hurdles to the economy of the country which has just been recovering from the impact of the pandemic in 2020. Almost all the states are reporting sharp rise in infection but the six states – Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh – are most affected. These states are also most important for the economy of the country. The containment measures, curfews, and lockdowns will thus adversely affect the economy of the country.

The pandemic has caused unprecedented crises and disruptions around the world. It has inflicted the greatest pain on those who were already the most vulnerable, spurring hardship and unease among low-income families and micro-businesses. In the process, it uncovered existing inequities and created new ones.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his two day visit to Bangladesh certainly strengthened India’s bilateral ties with its neighbour but his programme in Bangladesh also took care of his party’s compulsions in the assembly polls in Bengal which began on March 27. His visit to the birthplace of the founder of matua community who have influence in poll bound districts of Bengal, had his party interests in mind.

A filmi song plays intermittently on the para (locality) loudspeaker, breaking the sleepiness of a Sunday afternoon. A catchy tune, it’s been playing for some days on the trot. A lady with a husky voice sings spiritedly, and the words ‘desh ka bachha bachha’ float in the air. Curious, I look up the refrain with the search words ‘Hindi song’. This peppy number; it then emerges, is a campaign song which declares ‘Bharat ka bachha bachha mere Ram pe kurban hai’ (every child of India dotes on my Ram).

Chennai: A record 48 team entries and a clutch of country’s top riders are in the fray for TVS Eurogrip MMSC Motorcycle Endurance Race to be run over two hours at the MMRT circuit here on Sunday.