Perth, 1985. India were trailing West Germany 1-5 at hockey's Champions Trophy with about eight minutes left when a 20-year-old fullback picked up the ball near the halfway line, ran at the defence, skipped past four defenders, and lifted it over the goalkeeper. It sparked a comeback still counted among Indian hockey's greatest. India scored four times in that spell to draw 5-5. Forty-one years later, the Congress has handed him the ball in Punjab with lots to defend against, and everything to play for. "It all happened so fast. Maybe the Germans did not expect it from me," Pargat Singh recalled about that match in Australia in a 1991 interview. On Friday, the party named the former Olympic captain its state unit chief, two days after Amarinder Singh Raja Warring resigned and months before the 2027 Assembly elections. Picking Pargat was a fallback, though not purely defensive. Former minister Vijay Inder Singla, a Hindu from the Bania (trader) community who he...
OnePlus Open made its debut today as the first foldable phone from the Chinese smartphone maker. The handset features the same specifications as the Oppo Find N3 that was launched in global markets earlier today. The company confirmed that the handset will be equipped with Sony's newest LYTIA-T808 camera sensor. The handset is also confirmed to feature a waterdrop-style hinge. Other details of the handset that were previously leaked, matched the specifications of the Oppo Find N3.
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