Kashmir, 3/10: Two army personnel were injured in a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Tuesday. The encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Monday evening following a cordon and search operation in a forest area of the district, they said. A joint team of the army…
Beijing, 2/10: India’s Parul Chaudhary and Priti secured silver and bronze medals respectively in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, unheralded Ancy Sojan made a grand entry on the big stage with a long jump silver, while the 4x400m mixed relay team got a fortuitous upgrade to second spot due to ‘lane infringement’, on an eventful day…
Mumbai, 2/10: The deaths of 24 patients, including 12 new-born children, within a span of 24 hours at a government hospital at Nanded in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra has sparked a row between the ruling govt and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi. The incident was reported from the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital in…
New Delhi, 2/10: Welcoming the release of the caste survey by the Bihar government, I.N.D.I.A bloc parties on Monday accused the ruling BJP of running away from such an exercise, with the Congress pushing its slogan ‘jitna abaadi, utna haq’ . Top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi cited Bihar’s demographics to argue for proportional representation. “The…
Sweden, 2/10: This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on October 2, 2023. Through their groundbreaking findings, which have…
Beijing, 2/10: Indian athlete Swapna Barman, after coming fourth in the women’s heptathlon event, at the Asian Games in Hanghzhou, China made the sensational claim that she lost her chance at bronze due to a ‘transgender woman’. India’s Nandini Agasara bagged the bronze after accumulating 5712 points. Barman, who got 5708 points, was the defending…
Beijing, 2/10: Indian roller skaters clinched two bronze medals in men’s and women’s 3000m team relay events to match their best ever performance at the Asian Games here on Monday. The women’s team of Sanjana Bathula, Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu and Aarathy Kasturi Raj opened India’s account on the ninth day of competitions, finishing with…
New Delhi, 2/10: The Congress on Gandhi Jayanti on Monday vowed to ‘expose’ the ‘total hypocrisy’ of those who appropriate Gandhian symbols and project his legacy to the world, “but are simply unable and unwilling to uphold the values he championed.” The opposition party also resolved to work towards the victory of ‘truth over lies’,…
Beijing, 1/10: A record-breaking Avinash Sable on Sunday became the first Indian man to win a gold medal in 3000m steeplechase at the Asian Games here. The 29-year-old national record holder thus earned India its first gold medal in athletics at the ongoing Games, completing the race in 8:19.50 seconds. Sable rewrote the previous Asian…
Beijing, 1/10: India earned their best-ever finish in the Asian Games men’s badminton competition as they finished with a silver after losing the final to China. Indian team was hampered by an injury to star shuttler H S Prannoy but did well to win the first two games only for China to win the next…
