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New Delhi: Seasoned pugilist Shiva Thapa became the third India to move into the next round of AIBA World Boxing Championships with an easy win over Kenya’s Victor Nyadera in the 63.5kg round-of-64 match in Belgrade, Serbia on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Hockey India and FIH on Tuesday announced that Hockey Junior World Cup scheduled to be held Bhubaneswar in November-December 24, will be held without spectators at venue.

New Delhi: Top seed Nikki Poonacha and favourite Vanshita Pathania opened their singles campaign in the men and women's section with contrasting victories in the Fenesta Open men's tennis championship at DLTA complex here on Tuesday.

As the Twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) is nearing, all eyes are set on India, the fourth largest greenhouse gas emitter of the world, the first being China, second United States, and the third the European Union. It is because the latest update released on October 25, 2021 by the UN Climate Change Office says the world is nowhere near the goal, and preventing destabilization of the world and endless suffering would require doubling of the climate change efforts. Since largest number of poor among the largest emitters are in India, the world it waiting to see as to how the country is going to protect people both from poverty and climate change.

What is the big picture in poll-bound Punjab after the exit of the former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh? The emerging scenario is that Punjab will face a multi-cornered fight. In that event, no party or a coalition is in a position to get a majority.

In Indian politics, the ground situation changes very fast. That is apparent now as in just two months since the holding of the meeting of the 19 opposition parties on August 20, hosted by the then interim president, but now hands on president of the Congress Party Sonia Gandhi, there has been a major transformation in the mood of some of the opposition parties which took part in the conclave of August 20.The most important is the decision of the Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) of Bihar which has always been a loyal ally of the Congress and Sonia Gandhi against the BJP all along. The other party is Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee.

New Delhi: Rohit Mor and Akash Sangwan gave the Indian campaign a flying start as they chalked out commanding victories on the opening day of the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

The wide difference between the rule of law and the rule by law cannot be bridged. In the rule of law the meaning and interpretation of law remains same in every case but interpretation of each law keeps shifting to suit needs of those in the power seat. For 60 years in the post independence era, though law was not misused but those in the power seat also did not attempt to eliminate the archaic rules like authority to detain any one on suspicions. Even today accusation by men in law enforcement agency converts in public eye the accused as criminal and the arbiters of freedom tend to accept the word of men in authority even in face of absurdity.

Since the 2002 outbreak of SARS, a coronavirus, scientists have repeatedly warned us of a new pandemic. In 2016, the World Health Organization placed coronaviruses in the top eight viral threats, requiring more research. There was no research because Big Pharma had no profit forecasts at that time. As a result, in 2020 we were totally unprepared for the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, the latest coronavirus.

If one were to describe Aparna Sen and her work, there is just one Bengali phrase that comes to mind: Bhalo Kharab Meye (The good bad girl).