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Kathmandu: India’s men’s and women’s kho kho team registered dominating wins over Sri Lankan teams in the semi-finals to enter their second consecutive finals at the 13th South Asian Games here in Kathmandu.

Pune: Odisha FC will be out to break their string of draws with a victory when they host defending champions Bengaluru FC at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex here on Wednesday.

Kannur: Boxers from Chandigarh and Punjab dominated the proceedings on the second day of 4th Elite Women’s National Boxing Championships at the Mundayad Indoor Stadium, Kannur, Kerala on Tuesday.

Greater Noida: Nikhat Zareen put up a brave fight to pip Pinki Rani of the Bengaluru Brawlers in the women’s 51kg bout to keep NE Rhinos campaign alive on the second day of the Big Bout Indian Boxing League at the Gautam Buddha University Indoor Stadium here tonight.

Jammu: It won’t be a cakewalk for both Maharashtra A and Uttar Pradesh, the top two seeds, as they are expected to meet some of the hot contenders in each of their halves during the second stage in the 81st UTT Junior and Youth Nationals at the Indoor Hall of the M.A. Stadium here today.

Canberra (Australia): An upbeat Indian Junior Women's Hockey team will aim to start their 3-Nations Tournament campaign with a win when they face New Zealand in their opening match here on Wednesday.

Nassau (Bahamas): Tiger Woods earned the inaugural Hero Shot at Baha Mar championship on Monday,, to kick off the 2019 Hero World Challenge. Woods defeated Jordan Spieth in the championship round by a score of 1,800-to-900.

All is not well with the BJP allies, as there are murmurs from the alliance partners more so after the Sena quit the NDA recently. But the BJP is not worried as it has absolute majority in the Lok Sabha though Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to include the representatives of the alliance partners in his cabinet in 2014 and continued the same practice after improving the BJP tally in 2019.Modi is on record when he said that he believes that coalitions are necessary for Indian democracy and his government would combine national ambition and regional aspirations.

This is no ordinary election. Lying and deceit may be common to all elections but this campaign takes the biscuit. Facebook has banned a Conservative advert for containing misleading clips from the BBC. Google has banned no fewer than eight Tory ads for breaking its rules.

Ever since the installation of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government in Maharashtra, there have been discussions on BJP's shrinking political dominance in the country compared to last year — when the BJP and its allies ruled states peaked to 21. Presently, it has dipped to 18 states — that includes Tamil Nadu, Sikkim and Mizoram. It is true that these three states have no BJP ministers but what some forgot to share is that the ruling parties of these states — AIADMK of Tamil Nadu, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) of Sikkim and Mizo National Front of Mizoram — are still close to NDA.