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Top stars for Natl squashChennai: Ritwik Bhattacharya and Mekhala Subedar will defend the men's and women's singles titles respectively in...

Top stars for Natl squash
Chennai: Ritwik Bhattacharya and Mekhala Subedar will defend the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively in the India Cements Senior National Squash Championship from January 7-12.

Cash prizes of Rs 1.20 lakh await the winners and runners-up. A notable absentee in the U-19 girls section is Joshna Chinnappa, who did not send in her entry.

Seedings: Men: 1 Ritwik Bhattacharya (Delhi), 2 Manish Chotrani (Mumbai), 3 Navneet Narayan (SSCB), 4. Anuj Kalia (SSCB), 5 Rajdeep Brar (SSCB), 6 Gajendra Singh Rathore (MP), 7 Dhiraj Singh (Rajasthan). Women: 1 Mekhala Subedar, 2 Deepali Anvekar.

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Gopi, Marcos top
VIJAYAWADA: Pullela Gopi Chand (AP) and BR Meenakshi of Karnataka topped the latest all-India ranking released by Badminton Association of India.

Rankings
Men (singles): 1 P Gopichand, 2 Abhinn Shyam Gupta, 3 Nikhil Kanetkar, 4 Siddharth Jain, 5 Ajit Wijetilak, 6 Sachin Ratti, 7 Abhishek Bakshi, 8 Chetan Anand.(Doubles): 1 Marcos Birstow, 2 Jaseel Ismail, 3 Vincent Lobo, 4 Vinod Kumar, 5 Vijaydeep Singh, 6 Ajit Wijetilak, 7 Jose George, 8 Joy T Anthony. Women (singles): 1 BR Meenakshi, 2 Aparna Popat, 3 Trupti Murgunde, 4 Ch Deepthi, 5 PVV Lakshmi, 6 Manjusha Kanwar, 7 Oli Deka, 8 Neelima Choudary. (Doubles): 1 PVV Lakshmi, 2 G Jwala, 3 Shruthi Kurien, 4 Oil Deka, 5 Ch Deepthi, 6 Madhumita Bisht, 7 BR Meenakshi, 8 Parul Priyadarshini.

Srinath wildcard
NEW DELHI: Davis Cupper Prahlad Srinath was given an out-of-turn wildcard entry for the $10,000 ITF Futures tennis at Secunderabad from January 10-15. Rohan Bopanna was the loser.

–ENS & Agencies

EXCLUSIVE: EC brings in feature to check misuse of identity to seek voter list deletions

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The Election Commission has launched a new 'e-sign' feature on its portal and app to prevent fraud. This comes after allegations of misuse of online voter deletion forms in Karnataka. The feature requires voters to verify their identity using their Aadhaar-linked phone numbers, reducing the possibility of fraud.

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