HIGHLIGHTS Spaniards Fatima Galvez and Alberto Fernandez shot 41 of the 50 targets in the gold medal match, San Marino is the least populated country to win an Olympic medal at the Summer or Winter Games United States’ Madelynn Bernau and Brian Burrows won the bronze in a shoot-off victory Spain won gold in the…
One thing that every US President since George W Bush has done is to promise to bring American soldiers home from what in September will be two decades of unending conflict in Afghanistan since 9/11. President Joe Biden, determined to make good on that promise, wasted no time in setting a timeline for this as soon as…
HIGHLIGHTS Tai Tzu Ying stands between Sindhu and 2nd Olympic final Sindhu has lost 9 of her last 11 meetings to Taiwan’s Tai Sindhu defeated Tai en route to Rio silver, world championships gold in 2019 5-13. 9 defeats in their last 11 meetings. PV Sindhu has a poor head-to-head record against Tai Tzu Ying. The…
HIGHLIGHTS Ariarne Titmus of Australia won the silver and Simona Quadarella of Italy took the bronze Ledecky got her Tokyo campaign back on track by winning the 1,500 earlier in the week Ledecky increased her lead over Titmus from the 500 mark and came home more than a second ahead of her Australian rival Katy Ledecky…
HIGHLIGHTS USA beat Netherlands 4-2 in a shootout USA will face Canada in the semi-finals I much prefer playing in front of 50,000, says Rapinoe Megan Rapinoe, who scored the crucial penalty against Netherlands, which took the United States into the Tokyo Olympics semi-finals, is not impressed with the lack of…
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Kolkata: Infighting in the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district came to the fore on Friday when an MLA of the party allegedly threatened to “break the bones” of another TMC legislator. In a video shown on TV channels, the TMC MLA from Bharatpur, Humayun Kabir, a long-time…
HIGHLIGHTS India’s Kamalpreet Kaur finishes second in discus qualification to make finals Kamalpreet qualified for the finals with a throw of 64m in her third and final attempt Farm duty kept Kamaplpreet’s father busy as she missed her daughter’s qualifying round Kuldeep Singh, father of India’s discus…
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha’s monsoon session productivity fell, thanks to disruptions, from 32.2 per cent in the first week to 13.7 per cent in the second. Its overall figure for this period stood at 21.6 per cent, according to the House Secretariat’s records. For the first time, the Secretariat is…
HIGHLIGHTS South Africa, who were already out of contention, equalised thrice in the match Vandana Katariya’s third goal in the fourth quarter gave India a 4-3 lead which they held on to India’s place in the quarter-final will be confirmed if Ireland lose later in the day to Great Britain Vandana Katariya…