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Modern School triumphModern School (Barakhamba Road) overwhelmed Bal Bharati Public School (Pitampura) by one wicket to reach the semi-fi...

Modern School triumph
Modern School (Barakhamba Road) overwhelmed Bal Bharati Public School (Pitampura) by one wicket to reach the semi-final of the sixth Bro. Dunne inter-school tournament at Mt St Marry School ground.

Kunal Kapoor (4 for 41) and Shiv Narain (3 for 38) were the star bowlers for the winners while Parvesh took three wickets giving 44 runs for the losers.

Brief Scores: Modern School: 220 for 9 (Shiv Narain 45, Dibesh Arora 45, Shahil Jain 36, Parvesh 3 for 44) bt Bal Bharati: 219 (Ekant 53, Nikhil Kwatra 47, Mohit Khanna 20 not out, Shiv Narain 3 for 38, Kunal Kapoor 4 for 41).

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Shivam excels
An unbeaten knock of 89 by Shivam helped Shri Ram School (Seniors) crush Dehradun Old School boys by 213 runs at Shri Ram School ground.

Brief Scores: Shri Ram: 286 for 4 (Shivam 89 not out, Pulkit Gupta 50, Anand 42, Madhav Kapre 26) bt Dehradun Old: 73 (Namgyal 20, Pratap 3 for 10, Kartick 2 for 15, Akshay Sinha 2 for 16).

Meet put off
The Ashok Sharma Memorial Carrom tournament scheduled to be held at Bengali Club, Kalibari, Mandir Marg and Anglo Arabic School, Ajmeri Gate on February 5 and 6 has been postponed. The new dates will be announced later.

Industrial Cup
District Cricket Association, Gurgaon will organise Industiral Cricket Cup for industries from February 21 at Nehru stadium, Gurgaon.

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Entries close on February 16 with OP Taneja, secretary, DCA and Kishore Kumar, Nehru Stadium, Gurgaon. Winners and runners-up will be richer by Rs 11,000 and 5,100, respectively.

outside the RJD party office in Patna on Friday. Partners of the alliance filed nomination papers for all 121 seats going to polls in the first phase – the total strength of the Bihar House is 243 – while talks continued to end the deadlock over seats.

Mahagathbandhan parties fail to seal Bihar pact, field own candidates for Phase 1

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Opposition Mahagathbandhan in Bihar failed to announce a seat-sharing pact as nominations closed for the first phase of Assembly elections. Talks are ongoing to end the deadlock over seats, with over a dozen constituencies still in dispute. The alliance has released lists of candidates, with RJD reportedly contesting 130-135 seats and Congress around 60.

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