Month: July 2024

Covid Strikes Paris Olympics: British Star Swimmer Tests Positive After Winning Silver

July 29, 2024 admin

Adam Peaty tested positive for Covid at the Paris Olympics on Monday, the British team said, a day after winning silver in the 100m breaststroke despite apparently feeling under the weather. The decorated 29-year-old “is hopeful to be back in competition for the relay events later in the swimming programme”, according to a…

Sports

Serve Only Vegetarian Meal At Meetings: Himanta Sarma To Officers

July 29, 2024 admin

Himanta Sarma also instructed the deputy commissioners to keep government functions simple. (File) New Delhi: Himanta Biswa Sarma today directed his top officials to ensure that only vegetarian and ‘Satvik’ food is served during all official government events. “Only simple vegetarian meals are to be served at all official meetings. This rule shall not apply…

Nation

Spike in freight costs to hit exporters

July 29, 2024 admin

The sharp rise in freight rate would impact medium and small entities, Ind-Ra’s Soumyajit Niyogi said. File | Photo Credit: C.V. Subrahmanyam A recent four-fold spike in container freight costs, could hit Indian exporters’ profit margins and enhance their working capital requirements through 2024-25 if there is no respite soon, with smaller players likely to face…

Business

Israeli officials say they seek to avoid all-out war in Lebanon retaliation

July 29, 2024 admin

Israeli firefighters work to put out a fire caused by a projectile that was fired from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel on July 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel wants to hurt Hezbollah but not drag West Asia into all-out war, two Israeli officials…

World

Husband-Wife Fight Solved By Lok Adalat Bench Of Chief Justice Of India DY Chandrachud, Kapil Sibal

July 29, 2024 admin

“For the first time, I was not on the side of the bar,” Mr Sibal said. New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud today chaired a Lok Adalat and shared the bench with senior Supreme Court Advocate Kapil Sibal, a rare occasion at the court. The Chief Justice and Mr Sibal were part of…

Nation

NCAER expects GDP growth of 7%-7.5% this fiscal

July 29, 2024 admin

India’s GDP is likely to grow in the range of 7% to 7.5%, the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) said on Monday, citing a normal monsoon and the momentum in high-frequency indicators like bank credit growth as key factors amid signs of receding global shocks. The NCAER’s growth projection is higher than the…

Business

Chennai To Host India’s First Formula 4 Night Street Racing

July 29, 2024 admin

Chennai is all set to host India’s first formula 4 night street racing from the 30th August to September 1. The racing would be in the heart of the city around Island Grounds on a 3.5 KM long stretch near the Marina. Held under two categories – an IPL like Indian Racing League…

Sports

“Last Event For Country”: Rohan Bopanna Retires From India Colours After Olympics Disappointment

July 29, 2024 admin

It was not a perfect way to end his India career but Rohan Bopanna would take the early exit from the Paris Olympics on the chin, content that he could live his dream for 22 years. Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji lost to the French duo of Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Gael Monfils in…

Sports

Suspense Over Olympics Triathlon As River Seine Fails Water Tests Again

July 29, 2024 admin

Olympic organisers cancelled a second day of triathlon training in the River Seine on Monday due to water pollution, increasing uncertainty over whether the men’s and women’s races will go ahead as scheduled in the coming days. The men’s race is set to take place on Tuesday morning, with organisers set to make…

Sports

Paris Olympics 2024: Harmanpreet Singh Turns Saviour Again, India Draw 1-1 vs Argentina

July 29, 2024 admin

Skipper Harmanpreet Singh rescued India by converting a last-minute penalty corner as they held former champions Argentina to a 1-1 draw in a Pool B hockey match of the Paris Olympics on Monday. India had fluffed as many as nine penalty corners before Harmanpreet found the net, firing the ball into the top…

Sports