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Neeraj Chopra at Olympics 2024 LIVE Updates: The highly anticipated men’s javelin throw qualification round of Paris Olympics 2024 will take place on Tuesday and India’s Neeraj Chopra will be action. The reigning Olympic and world champion has a season’s best of 88.36m set at the Doha Diamond League in May. He holds the national record of 89.94m, achieved at the Stockholm Diamond League in Sweden in June 2022. With top-level competition experience, the 26-year-old Chopra is widely expected to advance through the qualification round. Apart from him, Kishore Jena will also be representing India. (Medal Tally) Here are the Live Updates of Neeraj…
Renowned astrologer Prashanth Kini’s prediction about former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s downfall came true on Monday when she resigned after ruling the country for 15 years. In December 2023, Mr Kini warned Sheikh Hasina to stay “careful” between May and August 2024, hinting at possible “assassination attempts”. Ms Hasina is no longer in power and has fled the country. The former Prime Minister had no option but to resign after weeks of intense protests and demonstrations. The unrest, spearheaded by student leader Nahid Islam, began in early July as a movement against discriminatory quotas in government jobs but quickly…
Months before her tragic fall as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina had claimed that “conspiracies” were being hatched to topple her government and that she may be assassinated just like her father and independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She had also alleged a “white man’s” plot to carve a new “Christian country” out of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Ms Hasina had said she was offered an easy re-election in January – which she anyway achieved in a one-side election boycotted by her arch-rival Khaleda Zia’s party. The condition was that she had to allow a foreign country build an…
A new “interim government” – to be advised, most likely, by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus – is taking shape in crisis-hit Bangladesh following Sheikh Hasina resigning as Prime Minister. Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin gave his assent late Monday for that temporary administration. A meeting was held at his residence that was attended by the chiefs of the country’s Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as political party leaders and civil society members. In speculation that has emerged (inevitably so) since Mrs Hasina quit, three key names are at the forefront, two of whom are the Army, which took charge…
Paris Olympics 2024 Day 11 Live Updates: India’s Kishore Jena eyes a place in the final of the Men’s Javelin event at Paris Olympics. Later in the day, India’s ‘Golden Boy’ Neeraj Chopra will also be in action in men’s javelin throw qualification round. Meanwhile, India are trailing China in the men’s table tennis Round of 16 clash. India men’s hockey team will be facing Germany in the semi-final match and will be assuring a medal for India with a win. Wrestler Vinesh Phogat will also be opening her campaign against Japan’s Yui Susaki in women’s 50kg Round of 16. (India’s…
There could be a conspiracy angle in former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, the government said at today’s all-party meeting on the situation in the violence-hit country, sources have said. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, it is learnt, said that several political players could be involved in the conspiracy to topple Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh. Mr Jaishnakar was responding to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who had asked if there could be an involvement of foreign powers, specifically Pakistan, in the dramatic developments in Dhaka over the past few weeks. The government has been keeping a watch on the evolving…
Sheikh Hasina did not want to resign as Bangladesh Prime Minister and wanted security forces to intensify the crackdown on nationwide protests, but security bosses said the protests cannot be contained by force, according to a report in Prothom Alo newspaper. The report details what went down in the Prime Minister’s official residence before her last-minute escape in a military aircraft, shortly before hundreds of protesters stormed in and went on the rampage. Morning Meet With Security Chiefs According to the Prothom Alo report, the Awami League leader called the top officers of the security establishment and police force to…
The fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh points to a big change in the country’s political landscape – led by possibilities that the Awami League leader’s arch-rival Khaleda Zia may again aim for power. Ms Zia, the key opposition leader who heads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, had been elected thrice, though she could run governments for only two terms. The jailed former premier is now set to leave the prison. Hours after Ms Hasina’s ouster yesterday, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin ordered her release. Here are 5 points on the jailed leader: Khaleda Zia was born in Jalpaiguri in…
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi fielded three key questions to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during the all-party meeting on the situation in Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina’s ouster as Prime Minister amid violent protests. Mr Gandhi asked what is the government’s short-term and long-term strategy in dealing with diplomatic ramifications of the power shift in Dhaka, sources have said. The minister replied that it is a developing situation and the Centre is analysing it closely so that it can fine-tune its next move. The Congress leader also asked if there could be an involvement of foreign powers, specifically Pakistan,…
The secrets of the CIA’s black sites have long been hidden. But now, a disturbing photo showing Amar Al-Baluchi, a 9/11 suspect, shackled, malnourished, and naked in a CIA black site, has emerged, revealing the harsh reality of life inside these secret prisons. The image, shared by his lawyers, is believed to be from 2004, when al-Baluchi was 26 years old and likely taken at the CIA’s secret prison in Bucharest, Romania. A CIA black site is a secret prison or detention centre operated by the CIA outside the US, where terrorism suspects are held and interrogated. These facilities are…