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Bhavnagar: Second-seeded Manush Shah’s withdrawal in the round of 32 has not only jeopardised his chance of winning a medal but also deprived him of valuable points in the UTT National Ranking (Central Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the SAG Sports Complex here today.

New Delhi: The Indian hockey team believes that 2023 World Cup to be hosted in the country will be their best chance to finish on the podium after India last won the coveted trophy in 1975.

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games champion Tejaswini Sawant, finished fourth in the women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions (3P) final in the 14thAsian Shooting Championship in Qatar on Saturday to clinch 12th quota place for India for the next year's Olympic Games.

This weekend, there are events in Germany commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the pages of the press, prominent persons—from former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker to current German Chancellor Angela Merkel to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev—are all weighing in with their commentaries on the significance of Nov. 9, 1989, all celebrating to a greater or lesser degree the demise of the former socialist state in the east.

A bitter war of words over basic procedural, governance-related issues in public perception, this is what the ongoing, unseemly spat between Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) looks like. At another level, it enables the BJP-run central government to challenge the TMC for its poor governance keeping the 2021 Assembly elections in sight.

BJP and Shiv Sena have a history of difficult relationship. Despite being partners for the major part of three decades, the relationship between the two parties has been under almost constant strain—this is because the ideological affinities that brings them together also pits them against each other in a contest for broadly the same political space.

It was Justice Ranjan’s Gogoi’s moment for a tryst with history and he has set himself up eminently set up for such a glory by heading the bench that has issued the best possible verdict on the Ayodhya Ramjanambhoomi dispute.

Considering that a review petition is likely to be filed by the Babri Masjid action committee on the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment, the case may continue for some more time.

Bhavnagar: The second day of the UTT National Ranking (Central Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the SAG Sports Complex here saw the men and women singles qualifiers getting underway with quite a few topsy-turvy results in group matches today.

New Delhi: It is India again. The 15th Men’s Hockey World Cup will be hosted by India from 13 to 29 January 2023. Hockey India on Friday won its bid for hosting the event. It will be the third World cup in India since 2010 and record fourth since this event started in 1971. The 14 World cup was also successfully hosted by India at Bhubaneswar last year, after which India again made a bid along with two other nations for the 2022/2023 event.