Paris: The fans at fencing are among the loudest and most passionate at the Paris Olympics, especially when France is challenging for a gold medal. They usually leave disappointed. Italy overcame a passionate “Marseillaise”-singing crowd at the Grand Palais to hand France its fourth fencing silver medal of the Games in the women’s team epee…
Paris: Sreeja Akula rallied to enter the pre-quarterfinals after a hard-fought 4-2 win over Singapore’s Jian Zeng in a women’s singles round of 32 match as Indian table tennis continued to make history at the Paris Olympics here on Wednesday. On her 26th birthday, Sreeja won the match 9-11 12-10 11-4 11-5 10-12 12-10 to…
Paris: Indian badminton heavyweights PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the women’s and men’s singles events, respectively, with dominant wins at the Paris Olympics here on Wednesday. Chasing an unprecedented third Olympic medal, Sindhu did not have to toil much before getting past Kristin Kuuba of Estonia 21-5 21-10 in her…
Paris: Tokyo Olympics bronze-winner Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) advanced to the quarterfinals of the Paris Games after clinching a comfortable win over Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad here on Wednesday. Borgohain prevailed 5-0 in the contest to remain on course for a second successive Olympic medal. The reigning world champion had won her Tokyo bronze in the 69kg…
Paris: Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the night before perhaps the biggest gymnastics meet of their lives restless. There was a tension in the air. They’d all been in the Olympic spotlight before, experiences that left them with medals but also the kind of scars — be they physical, psychological or both…
New Delhi: India’s space regulator on Wednesday offered an orbital slot to private sector companies to build and operate a communications satellite to provide services in diverse sectors such as telephone, television, radio and internet. The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN‑SPACe) released an Announcement of Opportunity for making available Indian Orbital Resources…
New Delhi: A day after BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s controversial caste remarks about Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party has initiated a privilege motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This motion was filed by former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, who submitted it to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, citing the Prime…
New Delhi: An emotional Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday urged the Chair to expunge certain remarks made by BJP MP Ghanshyam Tiwari in the House regarding his political journey. Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said he would look into the remarks made by Tiwari on Tuesday in the…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Kerala government was warned as early as July 23 regarding a possible natural calamity in Wayanad due to heavy rains and nine NDRF teams were rushed to the state the same day. However, the Kerala government did not heed to the early warning and also…
New Delhi/Wayanad: Military personnel on Wednesday intensified search and rescue operations in Kerala’s Wayanad district, where landslides have claimed more than 100 lives, with the Army saying that it has recovered around 70 bodies so far and rescued nearly 1,000 people. Extremely heavy rain triggered the landslides in the hilly areas of Wayanad early Tuesday,…
