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New Delhi: Defending champion Amit Panghal survived a scare before overpowering Kharkhuu Enkhmandakh 3-2 in the 52kg quarter-finals at the Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai.

President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals.

And you better start swimming, Or you will sink like a stone, For the times they are a changin’

…The battle outside ragin’, Will soon shake your window, And rattle your walls.

As the farmers’ protests against the farm laws of 2020 completed six months on May 26, 2021, let us trace the trail of these laws and their basis.

India is not alone in worrying about the long term impact of the US troops’ pullout from Afghanistan. Dhaka also shares Delhi’s concern. In Bangladesh, the recent arrest of four youths, who were on their way to Afghanistan to enroll/fight as Islamic jihadists, confirms the abiding appeal of Islamic extremism among the impressionable young in South Asia. Dhaka-based reports say the youths were new recruits to join terrorist camps in Pakistan/Afghanistan, expected to go functional after the US ‘occupation army’ finally leaves.

There is no ambiguity about the nature and character of the legal war that is going on in Calcutta High Court. So far it appeared to be a war of attrition between the CBI and Mamata Banerjee on the arrest of TMC ministers and leaders. But now it has no inhibition; it is a class war, a battle between two ideologies.

Down with shock and grief we are today the carriers of our dead. Our rivers are swollen with Covid corpses. Ganges, the most beautiful gift of nature to us, is unsightly with the bodies floating all over not only in the flowing water but also on the sandy shores where they were buried irrespective of their caste, community and creed. Death has brought them together, though not in peace and bliss but with an unspeakable helplessness. The rot is setting in.

The union territory of Lakshadweep is a group of islands which are home to around 65,000 people. These quiet, peace-loving people are being subjected to a ruthless regime which seeks to deprive them of their way of life, livelihoods, food and cultural rights.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the order of the Calcutta High Court placing four All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Madan Mitra, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee, accused in the Narada sting case, under house arrest with liberty to continue official work as an interim measure.

Lakshadweep hates two men, and both happen to be Gujarati. Make that three men – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and third, the most hated of them all, Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel, whose one single thought every morning he wakes up, they say, is to find ways to make life miserable for the indigenous people of Lakshadweep.