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Tuesday, September 2, 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

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.