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Copa America: Brazil face Venezuela in tournament opener, Rio to host fina
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Asuncion [Paraguay], June 3 (ANI): Host Brazil will lock horns with Venezuela to kick start the Copa America tournament on June 13 while Argentina open their campaign against Chile on the next day. The finals of the showpiece event will take place at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium on July
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Carolina Marin to undergo knee surgery, to miss Tokyo Olympics
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): Rio 2016 Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marin on Tuesday announced that she has torn the ACL on her left knee, and as a result, she would be undergoing surgery later this week. The 27-year-old also announced that she would not be in the best shape for th
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Asian Boxing C'ship: Sanjeet wins gold, defeats Rio Olympic silver medalis
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], May 31 (ANI): India boxer Sanjeet Kumar on Monday won a gold medal in the 91 kg weight category at the ASBC Asian Boxing Championships.
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Current batch better prepared for Olympics than we were in 2016, says VR R
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 31 (ANI): Veteran hockey players VR Raghunath feels that the current lot of Indian players are better equipped for the Olympics than the ones who took the field in Rio de Janerio in 2016.
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Chinese space contractor to install new satellite ground station in Southe
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 29 (ANI): The Argentinian government has recently announced that a local commercial satellite manufacturer, Ascentio Technologies SA, will partner with a Beijing-based counterpart, Satelliteherd (also known as Beijing Aerospace Yuxing Technology Co. Ltd.), to install a s
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Olympic champion Carolina Marin suffers ACL injury during training
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], May 28 (ANI): Rio 2016 Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marin suffered an injury on her left knee during the training on Friday.
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Asian Boxing C'ship: Panghal enters final, sets up gold medal clash agains
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], May 28 (ANI): Defending champion Amit Panghal punched his way into the men's 52kg final at the 2021 ASBC Asian Boxing Championships after outpunching Kazakhstan's Saken Bibossinov in the last-4 clash in Dubai on Friday.
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Brazilian series 'Dom' drops intriguing trailer of crime drama
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): The makers of the upcoming Brazilian series 'Dom' on Tuesday dropped an intriguing trailer of the crime drama inspired by the true story of a father and son on opposite sides of the war on drugs in Rio de Janeiro.
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Brazil reports 2,215 more COVID-19 deaths
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], May 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil on Friday reported 2,215 more deaths from COVID-19, raising the national count to 446,309, the Ministry of Health said.
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Syngenta launches multiple initiatives to strengthen rural health infrastr
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI/BusinessWire India): With the second wave of the Covid pandemic gripping rural India in an unprecedented crisis, the country's leading agriculture company Syngenta India has stepped in to provide support to help farmers cope with healthcare challenges.
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Unemployed Hong Kong protestor jailed for 28 months for supporting Uyghurs
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 19 (ANI): An Unemployed pro-democracy protester was jailed for 28 months for rioting and assaulting police at a rally in support of Uygurs in Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law.
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Won't support bipartisan deal for 9/11-style commission to probe January 6
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US] May 19 (ANI): The US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday said he will not support bipartisan legislation for the 9/11-style commission to probe the January 6 Capitol riot as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has "refused to negotiate in good faith" on the parameters of t
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