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New Delhi: Host India are placed in a tough pool D along with strong contender England, former champion Spain and debutant Wales. The men in blue will take on Spain in their opening World Cup fixture at the newly built Birsa Munda Stadium in Rourkela on 13th January.

Sharp shooter, Chandro Tai, is now 80 but never misses her target. Every morning after finishing her daily chores, she goes to the shooting range close to her house to practice air pistol shooting, something she has been doing for almost 60 years. Even in the scorching summer, when temperature hits 45 degree Celsius, Chandro can be found practicing for her skills in the shooting range. She has participated in many national and international competitions and won many medals.

On January 10, a curative petition was filed by the Union of India versus the Union Carbide Corporation (‘UCC’), and American Chemical Corporation now owned by Dow Chemical Company, an American multinational chemical corporation, pertaining to the Bhopal Gas Disaster.

It’s Kurukshetra. And Mahabharata. Bharat Jodo yatri Rahul Gandhi alleges the RSS are “21st Century Kauravas in khaki half pants”. And RSS Chief Mohan Mohan Bhagwat says Hindus are not finished with the “1000-year war with foreign invaders, foreign aggressions, foreign influences and foreign conspiracies.” The 21st century war is political, with Rahul Gandhi positioning the RSS/BJP as the Kauravas, and leaving it to the people’s imagination as to who’s the Pandava?

India would be going downhill for the next two years, if Global Economic Prospect just released by the World Bank is of any indication. GDPs for 2023and 2024 have been revised down to 6.6 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively, which are below 0.5 and 0.4 per cent compared to its earlier estimates made in June 2022. Obviously, it would push up the poverty level, especially the extreme poverty level in the country, which would remain a major concern, especially at a time of rising joblessness.

After a fortnight, the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi would culminate with the national flag hoisting in Srinagar. But this finish would be purely an allegory. The real political Yatra (journey) of Rahul will begin after this stage.

With most major parties adopting an ethnicity-based approach in their pre-poll campaigning, voting in the coming Assembly elections in Meghalaya could be sharply polarised, according to observers. Intriguingly, such a trend may be less noticeable in Tripura.

The Congress strategy to defeat the BJP and dislodge Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his pedestal is three-pronged. One, Muslims must be made to vote for the Congress, the Congress alone. Two, the Hindu voter should be convinced that the ‘Tapasvi Rahul’ is the alternative to the ‘Pujari Modi’. Three, the rest of the opposition parties should be made to make way for the Congress, and Rahul Gandhi.

New Delhi: Three-time winners the Netherlands are perhaps in the easiest pool of the FIH Odisha Hockey World Cup and are fancied to top it.

New Delhi: Veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh is all set to play his fourth successive Hockey World cup, his third on home soil.