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New Delhi: Taking no chances, Hockey India (HI) today named Craig Arthur Fulton as the new Chief Coach of the senior national team ahead of FIH Pro League starting from 10th March at Rourkela.

Kolkata: Playoff regulars ATK Mohun Bagan will be up against first-time qualifiers Odisha FC in the second game of the new knockout stage in the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan on Saturday.

Congress winning three Vidhan Sabha Constituencies and the BJP and its ally winning two in the byelections held for five seats in four states’ legislative assemblies –Maharashtra, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu – is a clear indication of the Congress emerging stronger vis-à-vis the BJP, and thereby UPA is gaining upper hand over the NDA.

Before the year is out there will be more than one troubling contretemp for the Bharatiya Janata Party. For the Supreme Court, and for the Modi government, too. Both are in the middle of a war over the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and his two election commissioners. The Supreme Court says that the Centre can no longer be the sole arbiter.

Riding on the back of the regional forces in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the political ecosystem of the BJP has put its entire effort and resources into projecting Narendra Modi as the invincible leader and new face of the New India. The BJP megaphones in the media circuits are also trying to send across the message that the victory in Tripura assembly elections was the best model for electoral success.

Vijayanagar, (Karnataka): Star long-jumper Jeswin Aldrin broke the national record with a jump of 8.42 metres to claim gold in the Indian Open Throws and Jumps Competitions at the The Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS) here on Thrusday.

Ahmedabad: Patna’s Aman Raj shot a solid four-under 68 to race into a three-shot lead at a total of 10-under 134 after round two of the Rs. 1 crore Gujarat Open Golf Championship 2023 being played at the Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club here on Thursday.

Bengaluru: Local favourite Bengaluru FC will lock horns with arch-rivals and last year’s runners-up Kerala Blasters FC for a semifinal berth of the Hero Indian Super League (ISL)at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Friday.

Ironically, opposition parties in India were further divided by the outcome of Assembly elections in three Northeastern states, not to mention the Sagardighi seat by- election in West Bengal. In broad terms, the Left parties and the Indian National Congress (INC) fared much better than their strong regional challengers like the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

India has the most number of gangsters-turned-politicians and one of them is Atiq Ahmed of Prayagraj, who is petrified he will go the way of Vikas Dubey, another gangster of the same neck of the woods, who was killed after the police jeep bringing him to Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh overturned en route and Dubey was shot dead by the cops “while he was attempting to escape”.