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Azerbaijan wins hockey series

Gwalior, Dec 8 (UNI) Azerbaijan's women's hockey team today clinched a series victory by beating the Madhya Pradesh State Women's Hockey Academy 1-0 on the North-Central Railway's astroturf ground here.

In today's encounter, the first half turned out to be goalless though the vistors were awarded a penalty corner the Academy on the other hand got four. In the second, Azerbaijan's Aleeva Jhee Yong scored a spectacular field goal. The visitors were awarded 2 penalty corners in the second half while the Academy got 1.

The inaugural trial match had ended 2-1 in Azerbaijan's favour and the first match of the series ended in a 3-3 draw.

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Stampede at Sabarimala; 15 injured

Pathanamthitta, Dec 8 (UNI) Fifteen Ayyappa devotees were injured, two of them seriously, in a stampede at Sannidhanam today. A minor stampede occurred following a heavy rush resulting in jostling for 'Darshan,' police said. Seriously injured people, Kanthaswami (30) of Salem in Tamil Nadu and Balraj (43) of Guntur in Andhra Pradesh were admitted to Pathanamthitta General Hospital and Sannidhanam Government Hospital respectively. The majority of them suffered only minor bruises. Madhavi Amma (63) of Kadakkal, who swooned.....

Centre announces package for cardamom replantation

Kochi, Dec 8 (UNI) The Central Government today announced a Rs 122 crore package for the next five years for replantation and rejuvenation of cardamom plantations in the country, which in a large measure will benefit Kerala. Talking to newspersons here, Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh said, of the total package Rs 58 crore would be spent in rejuvination of plantation in Kerala. Mr Ramesh said the total area to be replanted would be 28,000 hectares, of.....

EC allows political parties to open temporary election offices

Ahmedabad, Dec 8 (UNI) The Election Commission (EC) today gave its nod to political parties and candidates for opening temporary election offices near the polling booths in Gujarat. ''They can open the temporary election offices 100 to 200 meters away from the polling booths in cities with prior permission from the Commission,'' EC sources said. However, the EC has directed the political parties to close down their temporary election offices, opened near the polling booths, at 1700 hrs on December 9,.....
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