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Sushil Modi passed away at Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday evening after battling cancer for seven months. He was 72.
BJP president JP Nadda, along with Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha paid tributes to Sushil Modi at the party office. Nadda said that Sushil Modi had spent 40 years of his life in association with the party, from the days when it was known as the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

"It is a matter of grief that a senior leader and a person who took forward the BJP's ideology--Sushil Modi is not with us anymore. He left us when he was middle-aged. Sushil ji was one of those leaders who spent 40 years of his life from Bharatiya Jana Sangh to Bharatiya Janata Party," Nadda said speaking to ANI on Tuesday.

Sushil Modi announced his treatment last month and did not participate in the Lok Sabha election campaign. Over his three-decade-long political career, Sushil Modi played a pivotal role in shaping Bihar's political environment. Sushil Modi held various positions in his three-decade-long political career. He served as an MLA, MLC and member of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

He served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2020.

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After taking his time, Stubbs produced a stunning late onslaught to remain unbeaten on 57 off 25 balls, hitting three boundaries and four maximums to lift DC past 200, as the hosts amassed 72 runs off the last five overs.

Pushed into batting first, DC were dealt a huge blow on the second ball when Jake Fraser-McGurk mistimed a loft to be caught at long-on off Arshad Khan for a two-ball duck. Porel continued to impress by upper-cutting Mohsin Khan for six, followed by hitting three fours and a six in Arshad's second over yielding 21 runs.

Hope opened up by hitting Yudhvir Singh for two fours and a six in a 16-run fourth over, as DC reached fifty. Porel took the attack to leg-stump deliveries from Naveen-ul-Haq by pulling and swinging hard to hit two sixes and a four as DC ended the Power-play at 73/1.

Porel greeted Krunal Pandya with a superb late cut going for four, before reaching his fifty in 21 balls. But spinners Krunal, Deepak Hooda and Ravi Bishnoi created pressure, which resulted in Hope slapping straight to cover, who took the catch on rebound off the leg-spinner, as the batter fell for 27-ball 38.

Three overs later, Porel couldn’t get enough elevation on a slower ball off Naveen-ul-Haq and holed out to deep mid-wicket. Despite falling on the crease while trying to pull once, Pant was able to keep a stable base on his pulls off Bishnoi and Hooda for boundaries.

When Krunal gave him width, Pant was quick to pull wide of mid-wicket and cut past the backward point to collect consecutive boundaries. Stubbs got going when he lofted Arshad for six and four respectively, before bringing out a reverse ramp to send the ball between the keeper and slip for four more in an 18-run 16th over.

Naveen got LSG back when Pant never got the timing on a one-handed loft against a wide slower ball and holed out to long-on. Stubbs lofted Mohsin for six, before pulling and lofting Naveen for four and six respectively and got his fifty in 22 balls by lofting the pacer for another maximum. DC had luck on their side when Bishnoi dropped two tough catches of Stubbs and Axar in the final over, as the hosts went past 200.

Brief scores:

Delhi Capitals 208/4 in 20 overs (Abishek Porel 58, Tristan Stubbs 57 not out; Naveen-ul-Haq 2-51, Ravi Bishnoi 1-26) against Lucknow Super Giants.

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Neeraj and Kishore Jena, two athletes with Paris 2024 Olympics quotas, will not compete in the qualification rounds on Tuesday, as per Olympics.com.
All nine javelin throwers who previously touched the 75m mark in their career will get the privilege of competing directly in the final. The remaining 15 contestants will be in action in Tuesday's qualifiers, out of which, the top three will advance to the final.

Neeraj missed the domestic competitions in 2022 and 2023 either because of injuries or training in foreign countries for big competitions like the World Athletics Championships or Asian Games. His previous outing in a national event was 2021 Federation Cup in March. He bagged the gold with a throw of 87.80m back then.

A two-time Asian Games gold medallist and a CWG gold medallist as well, Neeraj Chopra will be competing in his second competition of the 2024 outdoor athletics season. He started his season at the Doha Diamond League last week, finishing second with a throw of 88.36m.

Asian Athletics Championships silver medallist DP Manu will also compete directly in the finals. Former Asian Athletics Championships silver medallist Shivpal Singh will also be in action in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday.

Also, Pramod, Rohit Kumar, Uttam Patil, Kunwer Singh Rana and Manjinder Singh are the other five athletes given a direct berth into the men's javelin throw final at the Federation Cup 2024 in Bhubaneswar.

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