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New Delhi: International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Arkady Dvorkovich officially handed over the hosting rights to India for the organization of the FIDE Chess Olympiad here on Friday.

Bhubaneswar: Captain Amit Rohidas on Friday at have been made to emphasised on the need to stick to the plans and strategies that have been made for the matches against England in the FIH Hockey Pro League to be played on April 2 and 3 at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium here.

Nuh, Haryana: American Dodge Kemmer fired a brilliant last round of six-under 66 to win the US$75,000 Gurugram Challenge by three-shot at 23-under 265 at the Classic Golf & Country Club here today.

Calicut: More than 500 athletes, including 158 women, will view for honours in the 25th AFI National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships in the C. H. Muhammed Koya Stadium here from Saturday to April 6.

History is always a series of justice for one and the injustice for the other. It is the way evolution moves. Finding new ways amidst the darkest clouds, leaving them behind and move on. The days of March 28 and 29 were the similar days in the year of 2022 when once again no less than twenty crore workers were on the streets all over the country with similarly oppressed people to raise their voice against the injustices committed against them. They were from factories, small units, also farm workers from agrarian sector, in the rural areas, they were from anganwadi and other scheme workers. In the 29 states in the country there were those where the strike was complete. The message was clear, thus far and no further.

The last time Union Home Minister Amit Shah stood up in the Lok Sabha to discuss the affairs of a state, that state was bifurcated and broken into two union territories. This time around, Shah has done the opposite—merged three municipal corporations into a single block with ramifications still not clear, except that this merger of Delhi’s ‘3 MCDs’ could be panacea for a severe bout of election fear psychosis gripping the BJP following the AAP’s Punjab landslide.

In the five days ending March 26, petrol and diesel prices in the country had been hiked four times, with more such daily hikes in the offing. On each occasion the hike had been by 80 paise per litre, so that the total increase during the week had been Rs 3.20 per litre, bringing the price per litre of petrol to Rs 98.61 and of diesel to Rs 89.87 in the capital city, Delhi.

General decline in COVID-19 cases in India has emboldened several states in the country to remove curbs, even as in the morning of April 1, 2022 a slight increase in new infection were reported in the last 24 hours to 1335 from 1225 a day earlier, which is a clear indication that we are not too far from the underlying danger, and hence precautions are still needed, and lessons from the past must not be forgotten so soon, rather must be taken forward as being suggested by a group of experts.

Nuh, Haryana: Indonesia’s Rory Hie posted a six-under 66 in round three and seems on course to retain the Gurugram Challenge at Classic Golf & Country Club here on Thursday.

The Indian supersonic cruise missile that landed in Pakistani territory accidentally on 9th March 2022 is a matter of grave concern not only for the two nuclear armed neighbouring countries but the world community as a whole. The accident which was first brought to light by the Pakistani military establishment on 10th March reaffirms the claims that accidental launch of a nuclear weapon can be a reality.