While Vinesh didn't take mat after first round, Bajrang Punia's wife Sangeeta secured confident wins despite two knee surgeries last year
India's previous best show was in 2013 World Wrestling Championships when the country had three in their kitty courtesy Amir Dahiya (silver), Bajrang Punia (bronze) and Sandeep Tulsi Yadav (bronze in Greco-Roman)
Deepak Punia pulled out of the World Wrestling Championship title clash in 86kg against Iranian great Hassan Yazdani due to an ankle injury sustained during the semifinal bout, thereby winning the silver medal
Amit Panghal will face Uzbekistan's Shakhobidin Zoirov in the World Boxing Championships 2019 men's final in Russia. Here are the live streaming details of the match.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after knocking off some established global wrestling stars at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships but hardly shows any emotion
Sushil Kumar (74kg) lost 9-11 to Azerbaijan's Khadzhimurad Gadzhiyev in the opening round at the World Wrestling Championships on Friday. If Gadzhiyev reaches final, Sushil will get a chance to fight for Tokyo Olympics qualification as well as a bronze.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.