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Sold off by parents at 13, Neetu grapples odds to win third National Games
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Legendary boxer MC Mary Kom has inspired a generation of sportspersons, especially women athletes across disciplines, and one among them is wrestler Neetu Sarkar, who battled age-old patriarchy and financial odds to carve her own path to glory even after giving birth to twins at the tender a
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Adopted by a supportive family, Sikkim boxer Pemlaki aims for first Nation
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Separated from her biological family at the age of five, Pemlaki was fascinated with boxing from the day she saw MC Mary Kom picking the bronze medal at the London Olympics in 2012.
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Kerala-based 'Maryan Apparels' stops supplying uniforms to Israeli police
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Kerala-based apparel company "Maryan Apparels", which supplies uniforms to the Israeli police force, has decided not to accept orders from it until peace is restored in the Gaza Strip where Israel has been pounding with air strikes in retaliation for Hamas attack against it on October 7.
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Football friendly match held to raise funds for flood-hit Sikkim
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"It's a charity match I would like to thank Baichung for inviting me and inviting Dhanraj also we came here for a good cause today was really amazing the weather was good. I don't mind playing football or any other sport," Mary Kom told ANI.
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US President Biden speaks with Egypt's al Sisi, discusses humanitarian aid
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
US President Joe Biden spoke with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Wednesday and discussed ongoing coordination to deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza and mechanisms to ensure the aid is distributed for the benefit of the civilian population, the White House said.
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UN Special Rapporteur urges release of Chinese human rights defender Guo F
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"Guo Feixiong is unjustly imprisoned, and he is in a critical state of health," said Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. "UN human rights experts have sent 10 urgent letters to authorities about his situation since 2006. He must be released immediat
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Security measures strengthened in Tel Aviv ahead of US President's visit t
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (local time) departed for Israel from the Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
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Israel-Hamas war: US President Joe Biden departs for Israel, to meet top l
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (local time) departed for Israel from the Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Reuters reported.
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Jharkhand Governor pays tribute to late Cardinal Telesphore Toppo at St Ma
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Governor of Jharkhand CP Radhakrishnan on Wednesday paid tribute to the late Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, the Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Ranchi and the former President of Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI).
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Death toll rises to 12 in TN's Ariyalur cracker unit blast
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Twelve people injured in the accident are still undergoing treatment in various hospitals in the district.
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Researchers find 'long colds' may exist, as well as long Covid
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
A new study from Queen Mary University of London, published in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine, discovered that people may endure long-term symptoms -- or 'long colds' -- after acute respiratory infections that tested negative for COVID-19.
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"ODIs should be World Cups only": MCC President Mark Nicholas
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The incoming president of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Mark Nicholas wants the ODI format to be played exclusively in the World Cup in a bid to protect the format that is losing its importance over a period of time.
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