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** Gautam Adani, advocate Karuna Nundy, jailed activist Khurram Parvez in TIME’s 100 most influential list

Apart from them, Indian American Bela Bajaria, the head of Global TV at OTT platform, Netflix, is also part of TIME’s list.

TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of 2022 includes billionaire Gautam Adani, advocate Karuna Nundy, who has been championing the cause of the criminalisation of marital rape in India, and human rights activist Khurram Parvez, who is currently in jail as part of an investigation in a terror-funding case in Kashmir.

Apart from them, Indian American Bela Bajaria, the head of Global TV at OTT platform, Netflix, is also part of TIME’s list.

** Vizagite now world Number 1 in Under-11 girls chess

Child chess prodigy from the City of Destiny Alana Meenakshi has become world number one in Under 11 girls chess as per the FIDE ratings of May 2022. She achieved the milestone with an ELO rating of 1,829. Alana is the only player from India who figured in 10 top rankings in the U-11 girls’ chess category. She was earlier world number 2 in U-10 girls chess.

Incidentally, US player Megan Althea slipped to second slot with 1,811 ELO points. Alana, who got 1,829 ELO points, climbed to number one. Aparna Kolagatla, mother of Alana, told TNIE that they were happy that she became the world number one in U-11 girls chess.

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** Skyroot successfully test fires space launch vehicle ‘Vikram-1’ rocket stage

Named ‘Kalam-100’ after the renowned Indian rocket scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Skyroot Aerospace, the national-award winning startup building India’s first privately built space launch vehicles has announced the successful completion of a full duration test-firing of its ‘Vikram-1’ rocket stage, representing a major milestone for the company on Thursday.

Named ‘Kalam-100’ after former President and the renowned Indian rocket scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the third stage of ‘Vikram-1’ produces a peak vacuum thrust of 100 kN (or ~10Tons) and has a burn time of 108 sec, said the city based firm’s founders, in an official release.

The rocket stage has been built with high-strength carbon fiber structure, solid fuel, novel thermal protection system, and carbon ablative nozzle. “It’s a highly reliable stage with no moving parts and high level of automation in manufacturing. This testing will help us in development of orbital vehicle Vikram-1 and gives great confidence for our other rocket stages planned to be tested soon,” said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder Pawan Kumar Chandana.

** Nikhat Zareen: Indian wins gold at Women’s World Boxing Championship

India’s Nikhat Zareen has won the Women’s World Boxing Championships in Turkey, becoming only the fifth Indian woman to be crowned world champion.

The boxer beat Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas 5-0 in the flyweight division of the championship on Thursday.

“Am I trending on Twitter?” an elated Zareen asked at the press conference after her win.

This is India’s first gold medal at the championship since Olympic boxer Mary Kom won here in 2018.

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** Archery World Cup 2022 stage 2 – Indian Women’s Compound and Recurve Team won Bronze

The Indian men’s compound team of Abhishek Verma, Aman Saini and Rajat Chauhan stunned a formidable South Korean team to reach the final at the archery World Cup 2022 stage 2 in Gwangju on Thursday.

The women’s compound team comprising Avneet Kaur, Muskan Kirar and Priya Gurjar, meanwhile, secured a bronze.

The men’s team, who had won gold at the Archery World Cup 2022 Stage 1 event held in Turkey last month, began the day by beating Italy 235-229 in the first round before ousting a strong USA team 234-228 in the quarter-finals.

India will face France in Saturday’s final in what will be a replay of the gold medal match from the Stage 1 World Cup from last month. India won the contest 232-230 at the Turkey meet.

The women’s team, meanwhile, received a first round bye and then beat fourth-seeded Chinese Taipei 228-226 in the quarters to set up a semis clash against the top seeded hosts.

Up against the other losing semi-finalists Turkey in the bronze medal playoff, the Indian trio overturned a late deficit to win a thriller 232-231 to claim a podium spot.

Meanwhile, Recurve Women’s Team of Ridhi, Komalika Bari & Ankita Bhakat defeated Team Chinese Taipei (6-2) to win Bronze Medal.

Recurve Qualification Round:

Men’s Singles:

Tarundeep Rai – 662/15

Neeraj Chauhan – 651/31

Jayanta Talukdar – 647/39

Sachin Gupta – 647/40

Women’s Singles:

Ridhi – 629/14

Komalika Bari – 621/24

Ankita Bhakat- 606/43

Simranjeet Kaur – 588/53

Recurve Team:

Men – 1960/7

Women – 1856/5

Mixed – 1291/7

source: sportsteamofindia.com

May 16 sports wrap: Sift Kaur Samra clinches gold in Junior World Cup shooting

Champion Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, in the rifle 3-position event in the Junior World Cup shooting in Germany.

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Indians continue fine run at Suhl Junior World Cup

Sift Kaur Samra came up with a strong performance to beat Julie Johannessen of Norway 17-9 in the 50-metre rifle 3-position event in the Junior World Cup shooting in Suhl, Germany, on Monday.

Qualifying on top with 588, along with Ashi Chouksey, Sift conceded the top position to Julie in the second stage of the competition, before stepping it up when gold was at stake. Ashi had been pipped by 0.2 point for the gold contest by Sift, and thus had to settle for the
bronze.

In junior men’s 25-metre rapid fire pistol, Anish Bhanwala was beaten to the gold 32-28 by Yan Chesnel. While Vijayveer Sidhu came up with the bronze, Adarsh Singh could not make it to the medal contest from the second stage.

Interestingly, the three Indians were far too superior to the rest of the field in the qualification stage. Anish, in fact, had topped with 584, which was 13 points better than that of the eventual gold
medallist.

There was another silver for India in the junior men’s 50-metre rifle 3-position team event. Italy beat India 16-12, pulling ahead from the second stage after India had topped qualification with a 16-point margin.

With three more days of competition to follow, India was on top with 10 gold, 12 silver and three bronze medals. Italy was second with four gold and three bronze, while France was third with two gold and four bronze.AdvertisingAdvertising

The results:

50m rifle 3-position:

Junior men team: 1. Italy (Michele Bernardi, Edoardo Bonazzi, Danilo
Dennis Sollazzo) 16 (861) 1299; 2. India (Pankaj Mukheja, Shivam
Dabas, Avinash Yadav) 12 (859) 1315; 3. Germany17 (853) 1307; 4.
Poland 13 (854) 1292.

Junior women: 1. Sift Kaur Samra 17 (405.4) 588; 2. Julie Johannessen
(Nor) 9 (409.7) 583; 3. Ashi Chouksey 405.2 (588); 21. Mansi Kathait
580.

25m rapid fire pistol:
Junior men: 1. Yan Chesnel (Fra) 32 (15) 571; 2. Anish Bhanwala 28
(18) 584; 3. Vijayveer Sidhu 18 (13) 579; 4. Markus Lehner (Ger) 10
(12) 561; Adarsh Singh 11 (574); Sameer 562.

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** India rejoices historic triumph in Thomas Cup badminton

India erupted in celebration after its maiden title triumph in the prestigious Thomas Cup badminton tournament, with people from all walks of life joyfully exhausting their stock of superlatives to adorn Sunday’s heroes.

From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Olympic gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra, the historic feat drew the attention of the country’s political class, sporting fraternity, entertainment industry, and the corporate sector, among others.

They lavished rich praise on the men who made it possible — Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, the doubles duo of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy — and also the ones who were not required in the team’s 3-0 demolition of 14-time winners Indonesia but played stirring roles en route to the victory in Bangkok.

** Indian shooters on top with eight gold and eight silver

Arya Tyagi, Shardul Vihan and Vivaan Kapoor gave a good account of themsleves before losing to the US 6-4 in the final of the trap team competition in the Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany.

India had topped qualification with 210, three points ahead of the US, but in the final, Lance Thompson, Emilio Carvalho and Matthew Kutz prevailed.

The Indian women’s team also ended up with silver after losing 6-2 to Italy, which had shot 12 points better than India in qualification.

In the mixed team trap event, Bhavya Tripathi and Vivan Kapoor shot 133 for eighth place, as they missed qualification for the medal round by one point to teams from Britain, Australia and Spain. The other Indian pair of Sabeera Haris and Arya Tyagi placed 11th with 132 .

** 24th Summer Deaflympics | Shuttler Jerlin Anika wins three gold medals

The badminton player has won several medals for the country at national and international level events

J. Jerlin Anika of Madurai has won the gold medal in the women’s singles badminton event in the ongoing 24th Summer Deaflympics at Caxias do Sul in Brazil. She also won the gold medal at the mixed doubles badminton event and the team badminton event.

Jerlin Anika defeated K. Neudolt of Austria to secure the gold medal in the single’s event. In the mixed doubles event, Jerlin Anika and Abhinav Sharma won the medal by defeating Boon and Teo of Malaysia. She was part of the Indian badminton team which defeated team Japan 3-1 to win the gold medal.

The badminton player has won several medals for the country at national and international level events. She is participating in her second Deaflympics. Earlier, she participated in the 2017 Deaflympics held at Samsun in Turkey. She was the youngest player at the event.

Delhi Airport replaces Dubai as the world’s second busiest airport in March: Report

The Delhi Airport was in 23rd place in March 2019 before the pandemic.

Delhi Airport was the world’s second busiest airport in March 2022 in terms of domestic and international flights handled, said Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data provider, in its recent report.

Whilst Atlanta retains its position as largest, Dubai is knocked out of second place this month (March) by Delhi which moves up from third place last month (February),” the OAG’s report mentioned.

The Delhi Airport was in 23rd place in March 2019 before the pandemic, it added. In March this year, airports in Atlanta in the US, Delhi in India and Dubai in the UAE handled 4.42 million, 3.61 million and 3.55 million seats, it mentioned.

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