Category: TOP 10 in the WORLD

** Amid Ladakh standoff, India inaugurates world’s highest motorable road: 5 points

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday inaugurated 24 bridges and three roads built by Border Roads Organisation to strengthen strategic capabilities of India. Among these projects is the Chisumle-Demchok road at Umling La Pass.

** Tokyo Olympics: India Men’s Hockey team wins bronze after 41 years, Ravi Dahiya chasing Gold in wrestling

Indian men’s hockey team rewrote history as it claimed an Olympic medal after 41 years, defeated Germany 5-4 in men’s hockey match to win bronze at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.

Simranjeet Singh scored two goals for India at the Oi Hockey Stadium, along with Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh also adding their names on the scoresheet.

Aug 05, 2021

** PM congratulates Bhavina Patel for her performance at Tokyo Paralympics

India’s table tennis player Bhavina Patel created history at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday when she astonished her world world no. 3 Chinese competitor 3-2 to become the first table tennis player from the country to reach the final of the Paralympic.

This was Patel’s first victory against the former world number one Zhang Miao of China in the women’s singles Class four semi-final matches. The two players had met 11 times before.

August 28, 2021

** Shooter Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Paralympics

A 19- year-old Shooter Avani Lekhara created history on August 30 and became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics,  firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event here.

Avani completed with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record.

She is  the  fourth Indian athlete to win a Paralympics gold after swimmer Murlikant Petkar (1972), javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia (2004 and 2016) and high jumper Thangavelu Mariyappan (2016).

Aug 2021

** Bengaluru Man MD Ahmed Bags Guinness Record For Memorising Most Three-Digit Flash Numbers

Bengaluru-based author and coach Mohammed Ali Athar Ahmed, also known as MD Ahmed, entered the Guinness World Records for memorising the most number of three-digit flashcards.

Ahmed bagged the world record for recalling 32 three-digit flash numbers. The previous record was held by an Iranian (30 three-digit cards).

Ahmed is highly trained in memory techniques and also trains others to use such techniques. He decided to attempt a Guinness World Records title to help inspire others who are also interested in memorising as a skill and sport, Guinness World Records noted.

** IIT (ISM) Innovation hub develops lac scrapping machine

IIT (ISM)’s innovation hub – Atal Community Innovation Center (ACIC), has taken into account the difficulties faced by lac growers in manually scraping lac from sticlac. They have developed a lac scrapping machine

Talking to The Telegraph Online, Amit Shukla, Chief Executive Officer ACIC  at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad said “Jharkhand produces almost half of the total quantity of lac produced in India. Jharkhand’s share makes India the world’s top lac producer.”

* World Senior Badminton Tournament At Spain: Government School Maths Teacher Wins Bronze Medal

Sunil Gladson Varadaraj, who works as an Assistant Teacher at Hosamalangi Government High School in Kollegal taluk of Chamarajanagar, is the one who had excelled at track & field events during school days and then was part of State Kho Kho team before switching to shuttle badminton.

Now, adding feather to his cap is the Bronze Medal he won at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Senior Badminton Championship held at Carolina Marin Stadium in Huelva of Spain between Nov. 28 and Dec. 4, 2021.

* World is a golf course now for this girl prodigy from city

India’s leading amateur female golfer, 15-year-old Bengalurean Avani Prashanth, has been selected for the Global Child Prodigy Award 2022.