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New Delhi: Continuing with their victory run five Indian pugilists moved into the quarter finals of the AIBA Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships in Kielce, Poland.

Jurmala (Latvia): Anastasija Sevastova and Jelena Ostapenko overpowered Karman Kaur Thandi and Ankita Raina respectively to give Lativa 2-0 lead over India in the Billie Jean King Cup by BNP Paribas play-off tie in Jurmala.

Vietnam has elected a new government, and although many Americans might not pay much attention to Vietnamese politics, there are significant reasons for them to do so—especially now.

Many a myths about Bengal and claims of uniqueness have been blasted during the current campaign for the assembly elections.

The seat of the Chief Justice of India seems to be under the spell of a black planet, with the result that every incumbent comes under a cloud even before he occupies the august position.

It is now in the open. The biggest loss of employment in 2020-21 was suffered by the salaried employees as against the popular belief that they were safest in terms of employment and source of earning during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent restrictions. The situation is most likely to deteriorate in absence of any comprehensive job retention programme as is evident from the data since the beginning of the second wave of the corona virus pandemic since February 2021.

In Lucknow, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath could, if he wants, smell the stench of death. For the last several days, the city’s crematoriums have been inundated with Covid corpses. So much so, with people taking a morbid interest in the goings on at the city’s largest cremation ground, the authorities had to put up an “opaque” fence all around it! Out of sight out of mind?

India has been vaccinating its citizens with domestically manufactured COVID vaccines since January 2021. The government has adopted a phased approach in vaccinating its population — first the at-high-risk populations, then the 60-plus and from April onwards, everyone over the age of 45 years is eligible. A digital platform, CoWIN has been set up to register beneficiaries for the vaccine at the front end and for planning, implementation and monitoring of the vaccination drive at the backend.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav played aggressive dalit card to win over Dalits by celebrating 130th Ambedkar Jayanti all over the state as "Dalit Deepawali." Following directives from the national president, the Samajwadi Party leaders and workers celebrated Ambedkar Jayanti all over the state by lightening diya near Ambedkar statute. Thousands of Samajwadi Party workers visited dalit bastis in the state and interacted with Dalits and offered them help and lighted diya and candles.

Amidst the din over farm bills, the BJP government (it should no longer be called NDA since there are no ministers from any coalition parties) has deftly manoeuvred the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021 through both Houses of Parliament. It’s the BJP’s trademark now to introduce bills at short notice and then have them sail through without much discussion about their import.