Category: Women / Girls

** Indian Wrestler Priya Malik Wins Gold At World Cadet Wrestling

Indian wrestler Priya Malik today won a gold medal at World Cadet Wrestling Championship which is held in Budapest, Hungary.

She won gold in the 73kg category by defeating Belarus 5-0.

** Bengal scientists develop world’s hardest self-healing material

Researchers from the IISER,Calcutta, and the IIT, Kharagpur, have synthesised an organic crystalline material with a unique internal molecular structure.

Nirmalya Ghosh, C Malla Reddy, Surojit Bhunia, Susobhan Das, Ishita Ghosh and Saikat Mondal.

** Tokyo Olympics 2020 Day 1 Live Updates: Mirabai Chanu wins silver; Nagal wins, Satwik-Chirag pull off upset

Tokyo Olympics 2020 Live Updates Day 1: Mirabai Chanu opens India’s account with a silver medal in women’s 49kg weightlifting, while the badminton, hockey, TT and boxing campaigns also begin.

** Bala Devi, Manisha Kalyan named winners of annual AIFF awards

Indian team forward Bala Devi has been named as the AIFF Women’s ‘Footballer of the Year’, with young gun Manisha winning the ‘Emerging Player’ award for the 2020-21 season.
This marks the third time that the mercurial striker has bagged the award, having previously won it two years in a row in 2014 and 2015.

** History’s muse – The Empress of Ancient Indian Studies

Some anniversaries wait uneasily to be reached in the calendar. November 30, more than three months away, is one such. As the date when Romila Thapar turns ninety, it asks to be celebrated ahead of its click.

Described as the ‘pre-eminent historian of ancient India’, she is exactly that. Just as Amartya Sen is the pre-eminent exponent of development and welfare economics. ‘Left-leaning’ would be another description of her — and, of course, of him — in a journalistically apt sense. But as a summary of their intellectual resources and energies, it amounts to a flat cliché. Both those descriptions show how the accurate can be incomplete and the correct, inadequate.

Described as the ‘pre-eminent historian of ancient India’, she is exactly that. Just as Amartya Sen is the pre-eminent exponent of development and welfare economics. ‘Left-leaning’ would be another description of her — and, of course, of him — in a journalistically apt sense. But as a summary of their intellectual resources and energies, it amounts to a flat cliché. Both those descriptions show how the accurate can be incomplete and the correct, inadequate.