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INDIA’S NEW SP ORTING ARENA

For a little over a week, ace rifle and pistol shooters from across the globe along with the sport’s top administrators will congregate in Bhopal for the ISSF World Cup that kicks off on March 20. The prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) tournament will be among a series of national and international sports events that Madhya Pradesh has hosted over the past two years.

Be it the pistol shooting, equestrian and women’s boxing nationals towards the end of 2022, or the women’s ITF (International Tennis Federation) tournament in January and the Khelo India Youth Games—that saw nearly 6,000 young athletes from across the

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