Indian Revenue Service officer Durishetty Anudeep topped the coveted civil services 2017 examination whose results were announced yesterday by Union Public Service Commission, breaking a three-year line of female candidates bagging the top spot. While talking to the media, Anudeep said, “I am really happy to get this result today. I am grateful to all […]
35 years old Mary Kom has become the first Indian woman to win a boxing gold at the Commonwealth Games. The five-time boxing world champion M C Mary Kom won the gold medal in women’s 45-48 kg category at Gold Coast, Australia. She defeated Northern Ireland’s Kristina O’Hara 5-0 to win the coveted gold in […]
Double-Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar (74kg) has added another medal to his kitty by winning the gold medal in the 21st Commonwealth Games. Debutant Rahul Aware (57kg) added another gold medal by beating Steven Takahashi in the final of the Men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling event. Sushil Kumar enthralled the attention of fans as he won with […]
The Great Masters April 2018 Edition Preview This edition of The Great masters talks about the loss of Stephen Hawking, the Padma Awards and interviews about various personalities such as Jagdish Narang, Arun Kumar Sinha and Dr Pradeep Saini. In writer’s corner, Abhinav Singh, an engineering graduate from Bihar, presents his experience on writing a […]
Indian shooter Shreyasi Singh shot her career-best score to clinch the gold medal in the women’s double trap final. Singh shot 96 points in the final and defeated Australia’s Emma Cox at the 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. Varsha Varman, the second Indian in the fray, missed out on the bronze by a narrow […]
India’s badminton team scripted history as they claimed their first gold medal in the mixed-team event, defeating Malaysia 3-1 in final. Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal led a long, intense battle against Soniia Cheah to give India the top medal. The 2010 CWG champion defeated Malaysian badminton player Soniia Cheah 21-11 in the first game but […]
In her first Commonwealth Games, 16-year old Manu Bhaker won India’s first gold medal in shooting in the women’s 10m Air Pistol event. Haryana’s Manu Bhaker not only managed to beat her experienced compatriot Heena Sidhu to the Gold, but she also finished on top of the podium with a Commonwealth Games record score of […]
21 years old weightlifter, Ragala Venkat Rahul extended India’s medal-hunting run in the weightlifting competitions as he clinched the gold medal in the men’s 85kg category at the Commonwealth Games. He became India’s fourth gold medalist at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Participating in the 85kg category of weightlifting, Rahul lifted a combined total of […]
India’s Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won gold in the women’s 48kg weightlifting, setting a new Commonwealth Games record in the process with a total lift of 196kg. The 21st edition of the Commonwealth Games is being held in Gold Coast, Australia. Weightlifting is usually known as Olympic-style competition has two lifts – the snatch and the clean […]
The world lost a great physics mind in Professor Stephen Hawking, known for his ideas about black holes and quantum gravity on 14th March, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 76. In 1963, Hawking was diagnosed with ALS, a rare form of Motor Neuron Disease at the age of 2, that later […]