Paris: To gain something, Aman Sehrawat firstly needed to lose something. When the scales of the weighing machine showed 61.5 kg on Thursday after his semi-final defeat to eventual champion Rei Higuchi, Aman had a bigger job at hand before taking the mat for the bronze medal play-off. India’s youngest Olympic bronze medal winning grappler…
New Delhi: The Olympic bronze medal winning Indian men’s hockey team including captain Harmanpreet Singh arrived from Paris here on Saturday morning. The Indian team extended its record medal haul to 13 with a 2-1 victory over Spain in the third place match in Paris on Thursday. However, not all members of the bronze medal…
Paris: Grappler Aman Sehrawat became India’s youngest ever Olympic medallist by clinching the 57kg free-style category bronze less than a month after his 21st birthday to complete a memorable Games debut and lift the sagging spirits of the controversy-hit national wrestling contingent here on Friday. Sehrawat, who turned 21 on July 16, notched up a…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Mumbai college’s decision banning ‘hijab, burqa, cap and naqab’ on the campus and said girl students must have the freedom to choose what they wear. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar came down heavily on the Chembur Trombay Education Society, which runs the…
Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday launched the ‘Tamizh Pudhalvan’ (Tamil son) scheme of Rs 1,000 per month assistance to help boys from government and state-aided schools pursue higher education. Launching the scheme here at the Government Arts College, Stalin said the ‘Dravidian model’ government is committed to social justice and…
Paris: An Egyptian Olympic wrestler was arrested in Paris on sexual assault charges, French prosecutors said Friday. A 26-year-old athlete was detained early Friday after allegedly groping a woman from behind outside a Paris cafe, according to a statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office. The office did not name the wrestler but said he was…
Paris: World record holder and former world champion Tobi Amusan crashed out of the women’s 100m hurdles at the Olympics on Friday as defending champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn sailed into the final. Amusan shocked the world in 2022 when she set a world record of 12.12sec on her way to victory at the World Champoinships in…
Paris: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad hoc Division has officially registered an application filed by Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat in response to a contentious decision by United World Wrestling (UWW),CAS said in a statement. Phogat’s appeal challenges UWW’s decision to disqualify her from the gold medal match in the Women’s Freestyle 50kg…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Centre government has set up a panel to monitor the situation on the Indo-Bangladesh border on Friday. “In the wake of the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, the Modi government has constituted a committee to monitor the current situation on the Indo-Bangladesh Border (IBB). The committee…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea seeking postponement of the NEET-PG examination, scheduled for August 11, which claimed that candidates have been allocated cities that are highly inconvenient for them to reach. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra…
