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Bhubaneswar: If there is living proof of the fact that size does not matter, it is in the form of Jyotika Dutta, the epee specialist who has taken the Indian fencing world by storm.

Bhubaneshwar: Odisha will look to end their league season on a winning note when they host Kerala Blasters at the Kalinga Stadium on Sunday.

New Delhi: Elite athletes Rashpal Singh, Sher Singh, Jyoti Gawte and Monika Raut will look to underline their supremacy in the IDBI Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon here on Sunday.

Cuttack: The first edition of the Khelo India University Games was declared open by Prime Minster Narendra Modi through a video link here on Saturday.

Bhubaneswar: World Recurve Cadet Champion Komolika Bari (Kolhan University, Chaibasa) shot 665 points, to lead women’s recurve qualification while World Junior Championship team medallist Sangampreet Bisla (Punjabi University, Patiala) shot 704 to lead men’s team compound ranking in the inaugural Khelo India University Games here on Saturday.

LIC continues to be in front page news for wrong reasons. Stories are in circulation in the media, more so in the news portals that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s disinvestment targets make worsen LIC’s health and wealth. There are headlines that LIC’s bad loans have bulged by 145 per cent in the last five years to Rs 30,000 crore as on September 30, 2019. Concern for the continued good financial health of LIC is quiet in order. The nation and its people have great stakes in the LIC.

The month long election to Bihar Assembly likely to be held from October 21 to November 20 is pregnant with possibility of former JNU students' leader Kanhaiya Kumar and poll strategist Prashant Kishor coming together to challenge the JD(U)-BJP combination led by Nitish Kumar.

On 19th February, 2020, the Supreme Court Collegium, which decides the appointment of judges to the High Courts and the Supreme Court, recommended the transfer of Justice S. Muralidhar, a noted and upright judge of the Delhi High Court to the Punjab & Haryana High Court. While a big gain to the Punjab & Haryana High Court, it was seen as a considerable loss to the Delhi High Court, and many viewed it as a ‘punitive’ transfer, since Justice Muralidhar had given many significant decisions in recent times, including quashing the transit remand of Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon cases in 2018. At the same time, it is important to note that how a fair judge adds value to every High Court, especially the ones in the smaller Courts, not that P&H High Court is a small one.

It is a matter of shame that even after 73 years of country’s Independence nothing substantial have been done for agriculture. Governments have come and gone but none of them have been able to understand the real problem of the farmers. Continual suicides of farmers are going on unabated. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced to double farmers’ income by 2022. But has he drawn up the blueprint for doing so? Has he understood the real problem of the farmers?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: February 20, 2020 will go down in the history of Kerala as a day that witnessed a horrifying tragedy. The people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu woke up to a terrible road accident that snuffed out 19 precious lives.