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16 Jan

Former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly meets Bengal CM at her office

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Former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her office in Nabanna, Kolkata on Monday. The meeting was of 15 mins. The objective behind meeting is not yet not known. According to reports, the chief minister asked the former cricketer to meet him. This is the second meeting between the former cricketer and the West Bengal Chief Minister at the Bengal Secretariat in the last one year. In July 2021, Mamata Banerjee visited Sourav Ganguly at his home in South Kolkata to wish him on his 49th birthday.

04 Jan

BCCI Announced Yo-Yo Test and Dexa to be a Part of India Selection Criteria

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India( BCCI) blazoned that Yo- Yo Test and Dexa will be a part of the selection criteria. BCCI has also bandied the player’s vacuity, workload operation, and fitness parameters in the platoon review meeting along with the roadmap of the ICC Justice World Cup 2023. ICC Justice World Cup is listed in October and November, and it's to be hosted by India. BCCI has shortlisted 20 players who'll be rotated for proper medications for the ODI World Cup 2023. The BCCI'll give preference for transnational justice while making sure the IPL isn't adulterated.…

03 Jan

Koustav Chatterjee becomes India’s 78th Grandmaster

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Nineteen-year-old Kolkata-based player, Koustav Chatterjee became India’s 78th player. He's conjointly the tenth metric weight unit from West Bengal. Koustav earned his 1st GM norm in oct 2021 at a Grandmasters’ chess tournament in BangladeshS. He got his second Gm norm at the India championship within the 1st week of Nov 2022. He crossed FIDE rating 2500 in August. Koustav is within the joint-lead with GM Abhijeet Gupta at the National Senior Chess Championship with a score of 8/10 when 10 rounds.GrandMaster is that the highest title aside from World Champion awarded to Chess players International Chess Federation FIDE. India’s…

02 Jan

Haryana Women’s Hockey U-18 team won Khelo India Youth Games 2022

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Hockey Haryana’s women’s team won the Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Women’s beneath eighteen Qualifiers once defeating Madhya Pradesh (2-0) within the final at Bhubaneswar. Within the final match, Pooja and Gurmail Kaur scored a goal every for Haryana to finish the competition in their favour. Odisha stepped up to say third place once beating Hockey Jharkhand 2-1 within the third and fourth place encounter. Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand have qualified for the Khelo India Youth Games (Women) to be control in Madhya Pradesh next year.Best Goalkeeper: Kavita (Haryana);Best Defender: Yogita Verma (Madhya Pradesh);Best Midfielder: Manisha (Haryana);Best Striker:…

30 Dec

Brazil World Cup winner and football legend, Pele passes away

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Brazilian association football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, magnificently named as Pelé, has kicked the aged 82 a try of. He is thought-about by many on of the sole footballers of all time. He was instrumental in Brazil’s three tournament victories in 1958, 1962, and 1970. he is still absolutely the best scorer for Brazil national team with 77 goals in ninety a try of games. He retired from town in 1974 but a year later created a surprise comeback by language a remunerative deal to affix the massive apple Cosmos at intervals then emerging North american league.In a marvelous…

29 Dec

South African cricketer Farhaan Behardien announces retirement

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South African batter Farhaan Behardien has declared retirement, terminal AN 18-year international cricketing career. The 39-year recent has drawn the Proteas in 59 ODIs and has 1074 runs and fourteen wickets below his belt. Behardien conjointly has 38 T20I caps for African country and has massed 518 runs at a mean of 32.37. He conjointly LED the Proteas within the three-match T20I series against Ceylon in January 2017. His last international game came method back in 2018, in South Africa’s 21-run convert Australia during a T20I at the Carrara structure. The batter remained not out for 3 off 2 deliveries.

28 Dec

Nikhat Zareen & Lovlina Borgohain win gold medals at the Elite National Women’s Boxing Championships

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Telangana Boxing star and therefore the regnant world champion, Nikhat Zareen, and Lovlina Borgohain, the bronze medalist from the Tokio Olympiad, each won gold medals within their separate finals in the Elite Women’s National Boxing Championships. The Railway Sports Promotion Board won the team trophy with 10 awards within the sixth Elite Women’s National Boxing Championships in Bhopal. Lovlina of state defeated Arundhati Choudhary of the Services Sports panel (SSCB) 5-0 within the 75kg final, whereas Nikhat endured a tough check from Anamika of the RSPB within the 50kg final before the 26-year-old Telangana fighter won 4-1 to defend her…

27 Dec

Union Minister Anurag Thakur inaugurates Sports Science Center in Karnataka

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Anurag Thakur inaugurated the Sports Science Centre here at M.G. structure in Udupi, Karnataka. This Sports Science Centre can gather sports scientists and athletes. The sports science center has been established by the govt. of state. The regime has established 2 sports science centers at Udupi and Bengaluru. These centers can conduct analysis on medicines, wholesome food, treatment and rehabilitation measures for sportspersons, that may facilitate them to spice up their skills. The Minister same that plenty of plenty of such sports science centers can come up. Within the long-standing time. The govt. is creating efforts to remodel Republic of…

26 Dec

Forbes annual list, PV Sindhu among top 25 highest-paid female athletes

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Forbes annual list: India’s court game star, PV Sindhu is that the solely Indian sportsperson to feature within the prime twenty five of Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid feminine athletes. Sindhu, the 2016 Edo athletic competition silver medallist, occupies the twelfth spot within the list. Japanese lawn tennis star Naomi metropolis super the list. For the third straight year, metropolis super Forbes’ annual list of the World’s highest-paid feminine athletes. The list is dominated by lawn tennis players another time.Sindhu, the 2016 Edo athletic competition silver medalist, is stratified twelfth within the list, that is topped by Japanese…

21 Dec

Jaipur Pink Panthers won 9th Pro Kabaddi League title

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Jaipur Pink Panthers won the professional Kabaddi League Season 9 Final against a hard-fighting Puneri Paltan by a score of 33-29 to win their second PKL championship. Once Patna, Jaipur Pink Panthers, the league’s first-ever winners, are presently solely the second team to win multiple titles. The tournament was contend across Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad whereas the playoffs were contend in Mumbai. Jaipur Pink Panthers team is presently junction rectifier by Sunil Kumar leader and coached by Sanjeev Baliyan. The team is owned by Abhishek Bachchan.