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Manya Singh’s father Omprakash Singh said that he and his daughter wanted to meet the UP CM.
Priyanka recently created a national record in women’s 20km race walking.
Manya was crowned the VLCC Femina Miss India 2020 Runner Up at a virtual ceremony.
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is slated to meet Miss India runner-up Manya Singh and athlete Priyanka Goswami soon.
While Manya Singh is the daughter of an auto driver from Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, national record holder Priyanka Goswami hails from Meerut.
Both the daughters of UP have made their families and the citizens of the state proud through their achievements. Manya was crowned the VLCC Femina Miss India 2020 Runner Up at a virtual ceremony.
Why women lose at chess
GM Koneru Humpy and Chinese GM Ju Wenjun at the 2019 Skolkovo Women Grand Prix. Photo: David Llada/Fide
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When she first started participating in chess tournaments at age 7, Koneru Humpy would play in both draws of boys and girls. “They considered girls as ‘underdog players’, so I was allowed to participate, she recalls. “But mostly girls themselves didn’t dare do that because the competition (in the boys’ draw) was very tough.
Humpy was no underdog. In 1999 and 2000, she won the Asian under-12 and national under-14 titles at ages 12 and 13, respectively, both in the boys’ category. Her performance against girls was even better: She swept up the top prize at the under 10, 12, 14 and 20 world championships. At the age of 15, she became a chess grandmaster (GM), the youngest woman in the world at the time to enter the elite club. She even broke the record of Judit Polgár, the highest rated woman chess p
‘The Last Queen’: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel resurrects the history of Jindan Kaur of Punjab
Fiction is the medium of a saga of a woman that history has not given enough importance to. Jindan Kaur | By George Richmond / Public Domain
When Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni had announced the title of her latest novel on her Facebook page and asked fans to guess who the titular queen could be, the answers had ranged from Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi and Rani Chennamma of Karnataka to the Tuluva queen Abbakka Chowta of Ullal (present day Mangaluru), and even a vague “anyone from the family of Bahadur Shah Zafar”. So the Indian-American author’s decision to bring story of Rani Jindan Kaur of Punjab to the world as the heroine of her latest novel,
2 Years of Manikarnika : Kangana Ranaut remembers film which broke her bones and many records
Earlier in January, Kangana Ranaut had also announced a standalone sequel to the film titled Manikarnika Returns: The Legend of Didda . Kangana Ranaut in Manikarnika , Instagram
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Updated: Jan 25, 2021, 06:25 PM IST
Actor Kangana Ranaut took to her Twitter account on Monday to celebrate 2 years of her film Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi . The film not only starred the actress but was also co-directed by her. In a tweet, Kangana commemorated all the things that the film achieved at the box office. She also shared two photos, one of her in a wheelchair with a cast on her foot and the other of the cut on her forehead caused by an accident during sword fight practice.
Republic Day 2021 parade
India will celebrate its 72nd Republic Day on 26 January 2021. The celebrations for this year s Republic Day are set to take place on Tuesday. On January 26, 1950, the Constitution of India came into force. Unlike every year when over one lakh people attend the Republic Day parade, this year celebrations will be toned down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preparations for Republic Day celebrations in the country are in full swing, and many of you must remember the R-Day parade on DD broadcast live. Movies have often showcased India s valour and vigour. Be it honouring our jawans to showcasing how our freedom fighters gave up their lives to make our India independent. Films have often reflected our future and heritage. And what s a Bollywood film without songs?