Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur India’s wait for an archery medal has been long and painstaking but in Paris, the team events have shaped up well. First to go will be the women’s trio, who are in QF action and two wins away from a potential medal. SHOOTING 10m Air Pistol Women’s Final: 3.30 pm IST Manu Bhaker After the heartbreak in Tokyo, Manu did well on Saturday to come through qualification and reach the final. On Saturday, she will face a tough ask in a loaded field to…
Day: July 27, 2024
After he fled to Thailand, key accused in Hisar showroom shootout incident held | Delhi News
Over two weeks after the Haryana Special Task Force (STF) arrested wanted gangster Rakesh alias Kala Khairampuriya after deportation from Thailand, his aide — wanted in a shooting incident in Hisar — who stayed with Khairampuriya abroad was arrested on Saturday, said police. Rohit, the main accused in the shootout at a Mahindra showroom in Hisar last month, allegedly supplied weapons and conducted a recce at the showroom, according to officials. Officials said he landed at Bangalore airport from Thailand and was later arrested after he was brought to Delhi.…
Paris Olympics 2024, India Vs New Zealand Live Score: Black Sticks lead 1-0 in first quarter | Hockey News
IND Vs NZ Paris Olympics 2024 Hockey Live: India men’s hockey team will kick-start their Paris Olympics campaign against New Zealand on Saturday. The expectations are high from the Indians after they managed to break a 41-year-old medal jinx at the Tokyo Olympics by bagging a historic bronze. Our senior reporter Mihir Vasavda is in Paris to cover the Olympics. Please click here to watch the Paris Games drama unfold through Mihir’s eyes and words. The Indians are clubbed along side reigning champions Belgium, mighty Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and…
Life and death in the heat. What it feels like when Earth’s temperatures soar to record highs | World News
In the unrelenting heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal’s main hospital as temperatures spiked to 48.3 degrees (118.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the region of 5,75,000 people, most lacking air conditioning. “We don’t have money and we don’t have a choice,” said Ouhbour, a 31-year-old unemployed woman from Kasba Tadla, an even warmer…
State treasury has no money, says Sharad Pawar on Ladki Bahin scheme even as Ajit puts a brave face | Mumbai News
NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar said on Saturday the state treasury has no money even as Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who also holds the finance and planning portfolio, said money will never be a problem to implement the Mahayuti government’s ambitious Majhi Ladki Bahin scheme. “The state treasury has no money…It is possible that one or two instalments will be given before the Assemby elections to turn public opinion in their favour,” said Sharad Pawar while talking at a book release at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Saturday. Sharad Pawar’s jibe…
Riddhima Kapoor says daughter Samara’s presence on Instagram worries her because of the ‘not so nice’ comments: ‘She posts everyday’ | Bollywood News
Entrepreneur Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, who is the sister of actor Ranbir Kapoor, says her daughter Samara being active on Instagram often makes her watch out for her, as the teenage is vulnerable to vicious comments of trolls online. Riddhima said she has asked her daughter that if she wants to be on Instagram, she has to make her account private but the teenager refuses to do so as she wants to get more “followers”. “At times it worries me, because she is (active) a lot on social media, she posts…
NEET UG 2024 Results: AIR 1 Mazin Mansoor’s counselling rank improves after revised result | Education News
Mazin Mansoor who scored 720/720 marks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2024 had his ranks revised in the recently announced revised result. He now shares the all India rank with 16 others by obtaining 99.997129 percentile. His all-India rank for counselling in the June 4 result was 1.03, now his rank has improved to 1.03. It was the 17-year old’s first attempt at NEET UG this year. He comes from a family of doctors. His father, who is a paediatrician, is now working in a…
Mehbooba Mufti urges Amit Shah to form panel of representatives from both sides of LoC | India News
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday called for forming a panel of representatives of people from both sides of the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir to discuss the region’s issues. Speaking at the 25th foundation day function of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to form a committee of 20 representatives on each side. “Amit Shah says he will bring back that Kashmir (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) even as you tell us Muslims to go to Pakistan,” she said. “But I have a request for…
Delhi woman arrested for ‘murdering’ her nine-day-old baby | Delhi News
A woman, 22, was arrested for allegedly killing her nine-day-old daughter in West Delhi’s Tikri on Friday. The murder came to light on Thursday when the woman’s husband filed a complaint against her, reporting that he had come home to find his daughter’s lifeless body. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the child’s body with its throat slit in a room on the second floor of the house and the child’s mother in another room. The woman was subsequently arrested under Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya…
Google Gemini is now powered by 1.5 Flash, will soon support file uploads | Technology News
A few months ago at the Google I/O 2024, the tech giant unveiled Gemini 1.5 Flash, the newest member in the Gemini family of large language models that excels at “summarisation, chat applications, image and video captioning, extracting data from long documents and tables and more.” Google also claims that Gemini 1.5 Flash is its “fastest and most versatile multimodal AI model” with multimodal capabilities like GPT-4o mini. In the Gemini app and the web version of the AI-powered chatbot, the update changelog says that compared to the previous version,…