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Wrestler Sujeet added gold in the men’s freestyle 65kg, while India’s women’s recurve team also secured the top prize. Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara added a silver in mixed recurve, with sailing and sepaktakraw contributing bronze medals. The demonstration is being held near Gate No. Read here
India crossed the 70-medal mark on Day 14 of the Asian Games, with boxing, wrestling and archery producing a string of podium finishes. Lovlina Borgohain won gold in the women’s 75kg boxing event, becoming the first Indian woman boxer since Mary Kom in 2014 to claim an Asian Games gold, while Parveen Hooda and Ankush also won boxing golds. 6 amid heavy security, with Dipke planning to expand the agitation across the country before a proposed culmination at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. Read here Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke to flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar and praised his courage and composure during the September 30 cockpit attack. Machchhar was injured after his co-pilot allegedly stabbed him aboard flight FZ1073, which plunged more than 14,000 feet over Saudi Arabia before landing safely in Tabuk. Read here When the Barapullah elevated road was conceived, Delhi was preparing for the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the objective was to create a signal-free corridor linking east and south Delhi while easing pressure on the existing road network. The result was clear when a promised 15-minute commute turned into a long ordeal on the first day.
Modi told the pilot that his actions had saved everyone on board and praised him for protecting the image of Indian pilots. Lavin Hirani, managing partner of Hirani & Associates, the law firm representing Samantha, says there was an “urgent need” to approach the court. Read here CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke reached Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Friday to lead a protest demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. But the nearly decade-long delay in completing Phase III, which opened on Wednesday, has meant that a project designed around the traffic conditions and projections of the late 2000s has opened in a very different Delhi. Read here Following the Bombay High Court’s decision on Thursday to grant actor Samantha interim protection against the unauthorised use of her name, image, voice and other personality traits, her legal team has opened up about the circumstances that led to the suit.
