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32nd National Games Boxing

K Lawrence's knocks made Atul Kumar Sharma down in the Men's Light Middle weight category of Boxing competitions at the Lal Bahadur Stadium. Meanwhile RL Jeni (AP) was beat Kamalesh Rolta (HP) and Shalu Sharma (AP) was down to Seema Devi (Har) in RSC-II Lt Welter Women's category.

Cycling
Kulbir Singh (Punjab) has set a new National record in Cycling event in 4000m event by covering the distance in 4 min 45.695 sec.

Diving

Atul R Paril (SSCB) is the winner in 19m highboard. Kerla beat Karnataka 7-1 in Group A preliminary league of Waterpolo.

Football

West Bengal won over Goa 1-0, Services made 2-0 to win over Maharastra while Andhra Pradesh managed 4-2 to beat Orissa.

Gymnastics

Tumpa Debnath of Andhra Pradesh won the Women's All-round individual championship of the Gymnastics with 32.000 pts. Vikas Pandey of Uttar Pradesh with 51.900 pts is the winner Men's category.

Swimming

Mandar Divse(AP) won in 1500 m freestyle, TK Senthil Kumar (Ker) in 50m backstroke, Karnataka with Rehan Roncham B Vinay, Shreesh Reddy and Rahul Batra in 4x100m medley relay, Shikha Tandon (Kar) in 50m backstroke, Richa Mishra (AP) in 400m individual medley were the winners.
Medals tally as on December 15, 2002
Team Gold Silver Bronze Total
Andhra Pradesh 12 9 12 33
Punjab 11 10 6 27
Manipur 7 6 7 20
Karnataka 6 6 7 19
Services 5 2 3 10
Kerala 3 6 4 13
Haryana 3 4 2 9
Uttar Pradesh 2 0 1 3
West Bengal 1 2 4 7
Tamil Nadu 1 1 2 4
Orissa 1 0 2 3
Gujarat 1 0 1 2
Chandigarh 0 2 3 5
Madhya Pradesh 0 2 1 3
Maharashtra 0 1 5 6
Delhi 0 1 5 6
Assam 0 1 1 2
Himachal Pradesh 0 0 1 1
Andaman & Nicobar 0 0 1 1


Naxals of the People's War Group blasted the Telephone Exchange of Durgi Mandal of Adigoppula village in Guntur. At least 10 naxals were believed to be behind this act.

Supporters of the BJP rallied in the twin cities and celebrated the party's victory in the recent Gujarat elections.

Union Minister Mr. Bandaru Dattatreya said that the Prime Minister will be launching Rail Vikas Yojna on December 26, 2002 in Delhi. He said that the Udhampur-Baranullah project will be completed by August 15, 2007.

Governor Dr. C Rangarajan visited the temple of Lord Sri Venkateswara in Tirupati. TTD Executive Office Ajeya Kallam and Join EO Mr. P Balasubrahmanyam explained about various issues of TTD with the Governor.

The Center for Water Resources of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University(JNTU), Hyderabad was all set to be the venue for an International conference on Hydrology and Watershed Management to be held between December 18 to 20.

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