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New Delhi: AIBA World Youth Women's Boxing Championship gold medallist Ankushita Boro expressed that the Indian boxers, who will compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, are practicing well and have a good chance of performing well in the tournament.

Launching his campaign against the forces which are out to malign his image and create confusion about the Citizen act and NRC , especially the Congress, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually distanced himself from his protégé Amit Shah on this issue of enactment and implementation of NRC.

Even as the dust begins to settle in troubled Assam following the agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, palpable ethnic tensions remain between the two major communities—the Assamiyas and the Bengalis. Assam-based observers agree that at present, a delicate truce prevails, but simmering tensions and minor outbreaks of violence have not ended.

The indications that were available from the Haryana and Maharashtra election results about the BJP’s declining popularity have been substantiated by the Jharkhand outcome where the BJP has fallen behind the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) combine.

Gone are the days of the multidimensional industrial house concept. And, so is the leadership of the Marwari business community. India's private sector industrial and business environment has seen a sea change in the last 50 years. Among the majors, the only survivor is the House of Tatas, still holding the top position. Till three decades after the country’s independence from the British rule, a group of 20 ruled the country’s business and industrial scene. It was almost like Japanese Keidanren or South Korean Chaebol. India’s 20 big industrial groups in the 1950s and 1960s were: Tata, Birla, Martin Burn, Sahu Jain, Bird Heilgers, Andrew Yule, Sriram, Mafatlal, Kasturbhai Lalbhai, JK Singhania, Walchand, Thapar, Bangur, Indra Singh, Seshasayee, Ramkrishna, Kirloskar, Mahindra, Sharpoorji and Wadia. Barring Tata, A V Birla group from the Birla clan and Mahindra none other exist in today’s list of leading business groups and enterprises.

A section of the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League(IUML) have categorically rejected the ‘Mullappally line’ on joint struggles against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, has hit the streets again in her usual style of aggressive politics — which she often practiced during her stint as opposition leader of the state against the CPM-led Left Front government. This time her fiery attack is directed towards the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP dispensation. The reasons are the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and the nationwide NRC, as said by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the floor of the Indian parliament. Although, NRC is still in the womb and the government is yet to announce it — with recent reports suggesting that it may be delayed.

Goa: Goa thrashed Odisha 3-0 to go on top of the Hero Indian Super League table at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Goa, on Sunday.

Bhubaneswar: Haryana’s Anupama Upadhyaya and Assam’s Tonmoy Bikash Boruah caused big upsets to be crowned the U-15 champions in girls’ singles and boys’ singles respectively at the 33rd Sub Junior (U-15 & U-17) Badminton Championships here today.

Kottayam: Rally king Gaurav Gill underlined his supremacy in the Popular Rally, the final round of the Champions Yacht Club FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship, winning the title for an unprecedented fifth time on a pulsating day of action here on Sunday.