Prachi finished the race in 1:07.329s to settle for the last place
This is India’s fourth medal in high jump after Nishad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu and Sharad Kumar
India won three medals on Friday at Tokyo Paralympics 2020. India now has 13 medals (2 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze). Catch highlights here
Rahul Jakhar, 35, was eliminated at the end of the seventh series in the finals after qualifying second with a score of 576
Aruna was scheduled to feature in the repechage round later in the evening after she lost to fourth-seeded Espinoza Carranza of Peru in the quarters
Earlier in the day, Aruna had stunned fifth seed Danijela Jovanovic of Serbia 29-9
Prachi Yadav, 26, hails from Bhopal and recorded a time of 1:11.098 seconds in CLass VL2 Heat 1
IAS Officer Suhas, 38, took just 19 minutes to see off Germany's Jan Niklas Pott 21-9 21-3 in a lopsided group A clash.
Indians competed in three medal events -- shooting, shot put and taekwondo -- on Thursday. Catch highlights of India at Tokyo Paralympics 2020
Bhagat, the reigning world champion, outwitted fellow Indian Manoj Sarkar 21-10, 21-23, 21-9, in his men's singles group A class SL3 opener
With this event, India ended the day medal-less after touching the unprecedented double-digit mark on Tuesday with a haul of 10 so far, including two gold
Indians didn't add to their 10 medals already at Tokyo Paralympics. Catch the highlights of India's performance here.
Sharad Kumar, also a Sports Authority of India coach, had trained for three years in Ukraine from 2017 to prepare for the Paralympics.
After clearing 1.86m, Mariyappan and Sam Grewe struggled to clear 1.88m height but the American finally bagged gold medal by soaring over the mark in the final attempt
With these medals India's tally has now swelled to 10. Mariyappan Thangavelu was pipped to the post by Sam Grewe of USA who cleared 1.88 on final attempt
Singhraj's monumental effort paid off as the 39-year-old, only four years after taking to the sport, won the Paralympics bronze medal in the men's 10m air pistol event
India has 19 medals which include five gold. Check the latest medal tally of the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 here
The third-seeded Rakesh found the going tough against the 2016 Olympics mixed open champion Xinliang Ai to lose by two points 143-145
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.