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New Delhi: Sachin Siwach (54kg) thrashed Moldova's Serghei Novac to reach the pre-quarterfinals but his compatriots Naveen (92kg) and Govind Sahani (48) crashed out of the World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Every generation has the right to interpret history.

Historiography has undergone many transformations. Western historians saw history in a linear fashion— in which man went from being a caveman to a post-modern one. Thus, according to Western historians, history is a progressive journey from one stage to another.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has desperately raised the religious slogan ‘Bajrang Bali Ki Jai’ in the Karnataka electoral battlefield. Obviously to rescue the BJP from the danger of being defeated by the opposition alliance of the Congress and JD(S). Everyone heard the communal intonation underlying the slogan, which signals the danger in which the BJP has fallen not only in Karnataka but also in the entire country that would go to polls in 2024.

"Brotherly neighbours" China and Pakistan have been joined by Afghanistan to pin down India on CPEC. Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Islamabad on the heels of the SCO foreign ministers meeting in Goa. The Pakistan-China-Afghanistan nexus should worry the so-called Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Veteran of many electoral battles, Narendra Modi, has been forced to adopt a defensive strategy in the face of critical ethical attack from Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. It may look like an incredulous argument, but the bare fact is it was in riposte to the aggressive attack from Priyanka at her rallies and the massive turn out at her road shows that turned the BJP leaders jittery and Modi finally acting as the vanguard of the BJP’s crusade against the Congress.

It is difficult to understand why the government is in such a tearing hurry to auction the recently discovered large lithium reserves in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district before the end of the current year itself. The secretary to the Union Ministry of Mines, Vivek Bharadwaj, said the ministry had written to the J & K administration for the transaction advisor for the lithium auction to private actors. The rare non-ferrous mineral reserves in the Reasi district is preliminarily estimated at 5.9 million tonnes by the Geological Survey of India (GSI). The lithium deposit in Reasi is one the world’s largest in a single location. Lithium is one of the key components in electric vehicles (EV) batteries. Nearly two years ago, preliminary surveys by India’s atomic minerals directorate (AMD) found the presence of lithium resources of 1,600 tonnes in the pegmatites of Marlagalla-Allapatna area in Karnataka’s Mandya district. Later, the deposit's estimate was revised to 14,100 tonnes.

An ominous silence will now descend upon Karnataka, the scene of thus far the bitterest electoral battle at the state level, with uproarious, often abusive BJP-Congress exchanges, both with high stakes for future survival.

Indian Railways will complete hundred percent electrification of its entire Broad Gauge (BG) routes by the end of this calendar year (2023). Out of a total of 65,269 BG Route Kilo Metres (RKMs) across the country, 58,812 RKMs, equivalent to 90.06 per cent RKMs have been completed as on March 31, 2023. Remaining 6,457 BG RKMs will be completed by December 31, 2023. Work of electrification is going on with full force. Allocation of Rs. 8,070 crore has been provided in the union budget 2023-24 in the Ministry of Railways for completion of electrification, in any case, by March 31, 2024.

New Delhi: Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy will lead the 19-member strong Indian squad at the Asian Games.

New Delhi: Parul Chaudhary and Avinash Sable created new national records at the Sound Running Track Festival held in Los Angeles late on Saturday night in the women’s and men’s 5000-metre runs, respectively.