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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicWorld Boxing Championships

Topic: World Boxing Championships

Nishant Dev loses quota bout in men’s 71kg quarter-finals of 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifier

Nishant's loss in the match put India at four quotas for the Paris Olympic Games 2024.

Can’t ask women ‘to wear, remove hijab’ says boxing champ Nikhat Zareen, urges ‘peace, harmony’

In Delhi for a felicitation ceremony, Nikhat Zareen, who won a gold medal in the World Boxing Championships last week, told ThePrint about her journey so far & 'plans to marry' Salman Khan.

India’s Nikhat Zareen wins gold at Women’s World Boxing Championships

The Telangana boxer out-punched her Thai rival to win via unanimous 5-0 verdict. With this win, Zareen became only the fifth Indian boxer to be crowned world champion.

Never thought I’d be competing against ‘my idol’ Mary Kom, says boxer Nikhat Zareen

Junior world boxing champion Nikhat Zareen claims the BFI has altered the rules to accommodate Mary Kom in 2020 Tokyo Olympics squad.

Boxer Manju Rani finishes with silver in women’s world championship

19-year-old Manju Rani was the lone Indian to make the finals after Mary Kom, Jamuna Boro and Lovlina Borgohain lost in the semi-finals and bagged bronze medals.

Boxer Mary Kom bags historic 8th World Championship medal, settles for bronze

Mary Kom lost to Turkey's Busenaz Cakiroglu in the semi-finals after her review appeal was turned down by the world boxing body’s technical committee.

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.