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Bhubaneswar: Luck deserted Pakistan at crucial moments as they went down 3-4 to Argentina and crashed out of contention of the Junior Hockey World Cup at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday.

Kolkata: Kshitij Naveed Kaul of Delhi wrapped up his second title with a steady even-par 72 at the Rs. 40 lakh ICC RCGC Open Golf Championship here on Sunday.

Bhubaneswar: Defending champion India overwhelmed Poland 8-2 to set up a quarter-final clash with runners up Belgium who beat Chile 3-0 to top pool A in the Junior Hockey World Cup at Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday.

Kolkata: Delhi's Kshitij Naveed Kaul carded dogged two under 70 and managed to hold on to a slender one-shot lead into the final round of the Rs. 40 lakh ICC RCGC Open Golf Championship at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) Here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Skipper Manpreet Singh feels that the Hero Asian Hockey Champions trophy at Dhaka will provide the youngsters in his team a chance to prove their mettle ahead of a busy season next year.

The repeal of contentious farm laws is a significant moment and a major political defeat for the Prime Minister and his government. The government’s turnaround is all the more remarkable as it is unusual for the PM to backtrack from major policy decisions, even for instrumental political reasons.

Certain things grow on you without you even noticing it; it could be an emotion, an addiction or even a deadly disease like cancer. This has been the case with cryptocurrencies. Central banks, the very antithesis of cryptocurrencies, initially ignored its existence saying it was financial gibberish. But over time, the ever growing popularity of cryptos became an obsession with them and now even the central banks have realised there is no life without cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that powers it.

Though the third wave of COVID-19 in India is delayed and experts say its severity would be much reduced compared to the first and second, if at all it strikes, we cannot afford any slackness in guarding ourselves. Scientists have just discovered a new more infectious and virulent variant in South Africa which they have named as ‘Omicron’, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has put countries across the world on alert. Omicron has crossed the boundary of South Africa to Botswana, Belgium and Israel, and we will know more when findings from other less transparent countries are disclosed.

When Mamata Banerjee made nephew Abhishek Banerjee TMC’s general secretary in June of this year, they said she was following in the footsteps of ‘Behan’ Mayawati, who had appointed her brother to an important post in the Bahujan Samaj Party. Mayawati, a spinster like Mamata, clarified that her brother was doing it ‘pro bono’. Apparently, the brother was not bachelor-for-life like BSP founder Kanshi Ram.

Much of the press coverage of Cuba last week focused on the anti-government protests that didn’t eventuate. Less covered has been something of potentially greater global significance: its vaccination drive.