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Cooch Behar | Violence, latent complexities likely to seal Nisith Pramanik’s fate on Rajbanshi land

Much water has flown down Torsha and Jaldhaka, the two main rivers in the northern Bengal district of Cooch Behar, since junior Union Minister and the BJP’s incumbent Nisith Pramanik swung nearly 32% votes to dislodge the Trinamool Congress (TMC) from this SC-reserved Lok Sabha seat in 2019.Once considered a fortress of the Left Front partner Forward Bloc which won the seat for an unbroken 32 years from 1977 to 2009, Cooch Behar constituency currently remains a BJP stronghold, with five of the seven Assembly segments in its kitty despite TMC’s landslide victory in the 2021 State polls.Lok Sabha election live updates | Biju Janta Dal annoucnes first list for nine seatsRevenge could not have been sweeter for Mr. Pramanik, a former Trinamool youth leader who joined the BJP following his ex...
Sports

Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi scores unbeaten 404 against Mumbai in Cooch Behar Trophy final

Karnataka’s Prakhar Chaturvedi became the first player to score 400 runs in the final of the Cooch Behar Trophy after hammering an unbeaten 404 knock against Mumbai. In the process, Chaturvedi broke Yuvraj Singh’s 24-year-old record. Playing against Bihar Under-19 side (which also had a certain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in their ranks), Yuvraj had scored 358 runs in December 1999 while representing Punjab Under-19s at the Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur. Chaturvedi’s knock on Monday came off 638 balls at a strike rate of 63.32 and included 46 fours and three towering sixes at the KSCA Navule Stadium. Thanks to his knock, Karnataka, who had Won the toss and elected to field first, managed to pile on 890 runs from 223 overs before they declared after losing eight wickets. They racked up a lead ...