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Special Olympics Bharat begins 75-day countdown to Amrit Mahotsav
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): On 22nd January, Special Olympics Bharat, launched the 75-day countdown to the federation's Return To Play - Inclusion Revolution program for athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID). Launched under the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav initiative by the Govern
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Main goal was to qualify for Hockey World Cup, we did that: Women's coach
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Muscat [Oman], January 25 (ANI): Achieving their first target of sealing a berth for the FIH Hockey Women's World Cup Spain and Netherlands 2022, the defending champions India will battle Pool B winners South Korea on Wednesday for a place in the final of Women's Asia cup 2022 here in Muscat
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Hockey India announces 33-member men's core probable group
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): Hockey India on Tuesday announced the senior men core probable group who will play major international tournaments this year starting with the FIH Hockey Pro League starting next month.
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Beijing 2022 COVID-19 countermeasures adjusted even as cases of virus emer
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 25 (ANI): The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee (BOCOG) and the Chinese authorities have adjusted the Games' COVID-19 rules, a move that means fewer athletes are likely to be tripped up by positive tests.
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Beijing Winter Olympic teams register 1st case of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 24 (ANI): Beijing Winter Olympics reported the first case of COVID-19 among national team members that entered China on Sunday.
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China sees air pollution risk during Beijing Winter Olympics, authorities
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Bejing [China], January 24 (ANI): As China is all set to host the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the country's Ministry of Ecology and Environment has announced that it will take measures to restrict the operations of some air polluters, a media report said.
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Xi shows skill in carving out a likely third term
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, January 24 (ANI): 2022 is very important for China. Next month it hosts the Beijing Winter Olympics, while later is the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 20th Party Congress. The latter will shape the constitution of China's communist leadership and the country's policy prioritie
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China to look for greater dominance in 2022 post 'Grand Spectacle of Beiji
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 24 (ANI): After the Winter Olympics' Grand Spectacle comes to a close in Beijing, in late February, multiple threats of conflict may arise in 2022 as China looks out for greater dominance in Taiwan, Soloman Islands, Lithuania, Greenland, Horn of Africa, reported Poli
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US' allies haven't danced to Washington's tune on Olympic boycott: Chinese
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 24 (ANI): As the villages for the Beijing Winter Olympic opened for pre-Games trials on Sunday, a Chinese state media report slammed the US on the issue of the Olympic boycott being staged by several countries over human rights issues in China.
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Protestors in Turkey call for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], January 24 (ANI): A few days before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, dozens of protestors took to the street in the capital city of Turkey, calling for the boycott of the mega sporting event over rights abuses in China.
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Beijing reports 72 positive COVID-19 cases related to Winter Olympics: off
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 23 (ANI): The Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 Organizing Committee (BOCOG) announced on Sunday said that a total of 72 confirmed positive tests for COVID-19 have been reported related to the games between January 4 and 22.
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Beijing district conducts mass nucleic acid testing amid spike in COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 23 (ANI): Fengtai, one of the 16 districts of Beijing municipality, on Sunday started district-wide nucleic acid testing as local COVID-19 cases have been reported recently, local media reported citing authorities as saying.
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