Big win for Orissa

NALGONDA, JANUARY 30: Defending champions Orissa started their title defence on the right note when they toyed with Kerala 5-0 while Punja...

NALGONDA, JANUARY 30: Defending champions Orissa started their title defence on the right note when they toyed with Kerala 5-0 while Punjab beat Bengal 2-0 in the 9th sub-junior National hockey championship on Sunday. Four Orissa players and two from Kerala were disqualified by the medical team for being overage.

Results: Orissa 5 (Vinay Prakash Kujur 4, Nageshwar Topno) bt Kerala 0; Patalia 2 (Rajinder Singh, Sukhvinder Singh) bt Vidarbha 0; UP 2 (Ishaque, Khandekar) drew Pondichery 2 (Ravi Kumar 2); Punjab 2 (Major Singh, Gurupreet Singh) bt Bengal 0; Karnataka 12 (Somanna 4, Chinnappa 3, Hardeep Singh, Pradeep, Suresh kumar, Ravindra, Dinesh Kumar) bt Tripura 0; Bhopal 4 (Rohan Kumar 2, Habib Khan, Shahabaz Khan) bt Gujarat 2 (K Jadhav, Pothawala); Mumbai 1 (Russell) bt Rajasthan 0; Delhi 1 (Pawan Kumar) drew J&K 1 (Iqbal).

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A controversial decision-making process has set off divisions within the CBFC, and cast a long regulatory shadow on the Indian film industry as it aspires to be a global player . The Indian Express spoke to several top filmmakers and board members to find that a not-so-silent storm is brewing within the fraternity — and inside the CBFC, too — over what many call a “one-man show”.

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