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Manu Bhaker’s glorious run at the Paris Olympics 2024 has made the 22-year-old shooter from Haryana a household name in India. Manu is first Indian female shooter to win a medal at the Olympics. Jaspal Rana, a champion shooter himself during his playing days, was a big factor in shaping Manu’s career. Rana was present in the stands when Manu won two bronze medals at the Paris Games to make history. (Paris Olympics 2024 medals tally) Manu had the chance of adding a third medal to her haul from the Paris Games, but fell short as she finished fourth in…
The Centre has denied political clearance to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for visiting to Paris to support the Indian hockey team at the ongoing Olympic Games, an official source said on Saturday. Meanwhile, Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan said he has also been denied political clearance for going to the US to participate in a conference of speakers of legislative bodies from August 4 to August 7. Bhagwant Mann, who holds a diplomatic passport, was scheduled to visit Paris from August 3 to August 9 for the Indian hockey team’s quarterfinal clash on August 4, and had sought…
A man in Singapore has been fined $3,700 (approximately Rs 3 lakh) for posing as the bodyguard of a Malaysian princess to accompany his daughter to a K-pop concert. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the incident unfolded during South Korean boy band ENHYPEN’s “Fate” world tour, which took place in Singapore in January, with tickets priced from $110 to $260. The 49-year-old man was fined after he concocted a plan to accompany his 17-year-old daughter on the first day of the concert. The 49-year-old man said he wanted to accompany his daughter, who wanted to see the…
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif finds herself in the middle of a major gender controversy at the Paris Olympics 2024. Khelif, who was disqualified from last year’s world championships after failing gender eligibility tests, was approved by International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete in the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024. Her opening bout with Italian opponent Angela Carini that lasted only 46 seconds has put her gender controversy into limelight, once again. The topic has become so big that even Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took to X to condemned the decision to allow Khelif to compete at the Paris Games. (Paris…
Its feet and mouth tied up, stuffed in gunny sacks, scores of dogs were being taken away on an e-rickshaw to be thrown into a river in a Madhya Pradesh city, showed a disturbing video. The incident, which took place on Friday night, was reported from Satna, some 500 km east of capital Bhopal. A group of men intervened and managed to free more than a dozen dogs. The video shows the tied up dogs in gunny sacks and the men untangling the ropes and setting them free. A case has been registered against accused Nandu Basor and his…
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s swift defeat of her Italian opponent at the Paris Olympics on Thursday has sparked a row after she was disqualified from a previous competition over reportedly high levels of testosterone. Figures such as far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni quickly condemned that Khelif was allowed to compete at the Games. As the controversy threatened to overshadow the sixth day of the Olympics, here are some facts about testosterone. What is testosterone? Testosterone is a sex hormone produced by both men and women. However men produce up to 20 times more testosterone — primarily in the testicles.…
A strike claimed by Israel in an overcrowded residential area of South Beirut has changed the calculus, Iran’s mission to the United Nations said. “We expect… Hezbollah to choose more targets and (strike) deeper in its response,” said the mission quoted by the official IRNA news agency. “Secondly, that it will not limit its response to military targets.” The strike on Tuesday killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. According to Lebanon’s health ministry, five civilians — three women and two children — also died. Israel said Shukr was responsible for rocket fire that killed 12 youth in the annexed Golan Heights,…
A bureaucrat was shot dead inside a court in Chandigarh this afternoon allegedly by his father-in-law, a suspended assistant inspector general of the Punjab police. The victim, Harpreet Singh, was an IRS officer (Indian Revenue Service) in the irrigation department. There was allegedly a domestic dispute going on between the families of the victim and the accused and both the parties had reached the Chandigarh Family Court in connection with the same matter. A mediation session was underway between both sides when the accused – Malwinder Singh Sidhu – excused himself to use the washroom and his son-in-law offered to…
A trained biochemist and America’s most experienced astronaut, 64-year-old Dr Peggy Annette Whitson, is the designated Commander of the Axiom-4 mission on which Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, 39, is likely to fly to the International Space Station in early 2025. Dr Whitson is a veteran of four flights to space and while she retired as a NASA astronaut in 2018, she now works for Axiom Space, a Houston-based private space company, where she is the director of the human space flight programme. Apart from Ms Whitson, Group Captain Shukla will have a Polish and a Hungarian astronaut for company in…
Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement on Saturday. Tehran’s revenge for the attack will be “severe and (taken) at an appropriate time, place, and manner,” said the statement, which blamed Israel – “the adventurous and terrorist Zionist regime” – for his death.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Original Source