- Asian Games gold medal-winning former boxer Dingko Singh passed away after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 42 and had been fighting the disease since 2017.
- Dingko became a national hero and a household name in Manipur when he returned with a gold medal from Bangkok Asian Games in Thailand in 1998.
- He was conferred the Arjuna Award in 1998 in recognition of his achievement. He also got the prestigious Padma Shri Award, the country’s fourth-highest civilian award, in 2013.
