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India must protest “very strongly” against the “unfortunate” disqualification of wrestler Vinesh Phogat from the 50kg gold medal bout in the Paris Olympics after she was found to be overweight, legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar said in Mumbai on Wednesday. Vinesh was disqualified from taking part in the final for being overweight by 100…
Shanto Khan debuted with ‘Prem Chor’ in 2019 Kolkata: Members of the Kolkata film industry on Wednesday expressed shock over the killing of Bangladeshi actor Shanto Khan along with his father, producer Selim Khan, during the unrest in the neighbouring country. The Kolkata-based actors, several of whom have worked with Shanto Khan in Bangladeshi film…
Reminders that Covid-19 has not gone away pop up from time to time, even if the world seems to have moved on. More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Olympics in Paris have tested positive, highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on August 6. And now, the subgenus…
The warning comes amid soaring tensions in the region following last week’s assassination of Hamas’ leader in Tehran Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry said on Wednesday (August 8) it has ordered Egyptian airlines to avoid Iranian airspace for three hours the following day after a notice from Tehran to do so because of military exercises. The…
Human rights groups including US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) and Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) also confirmed the execution of at least two dozen people in Karaj. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran on Wednesday (August 7, 2024) hanged at least 29 convicts in a single day, including 26 in a…
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Taylor Swift | Photo Credit: AFP Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. Swift was scheduled to play at the Austrian capital’s Ernst Happel…
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Vinesh Phogat announced her retirement following disqualification from the Paris Olympics 2024 New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor today said that Vinesh Phogat is “tired of fighting”, shortly after the wrestler announced her retirement following the shock exit from the Paris Olympics 2024 on Wednesday. In a post in Hindi on X, Mr Tharoor said,…
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Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for being 100 grams overweight hours before her gold medal bout. New Delhi: India’s ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat has announced her retirement from the sport following her disqualification in the 50 kg freestyle wrestling final at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The 29-year-old athlete was disqualified for being 100 grams overweight hours…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main Opposition party when former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was in power, held a rally at Naya Paltan in Dhaka, where thousands of people gathered from different parts of the country. Addressing the rally virtually from London, Tarique Rahman, BNP acting chairman and son of former Prime Minister and…
Mathematics always interested 18-year-old Ananda Bhaduri. Growing up in Guwahati, he spent his formative years learning topics not generally covered in school curricula. Last year, he dove into the expansive archives of mathematics problems on the internet, carefully curating the hardest ones and solving them — sometimes in solitude, at others over online meetings with…
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