India’s Yashvir Singh celebrates winning the silver medal in the men’s javelin throw final at the Asian Games. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: The last throw has become familiar territory for Yashvir Singh.At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow earlier this year, Yashvir produced a stunning 85.41m with his final throw to win bronze.Asian Games Full Coverage…
Supreme Court questions UPI MDR, asks Centre, RBI to explain legal basis NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre, RBI and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to explain under which provision of law the merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI transactions was imposed, even though it refused to stay its implementation from Oct…
When Doug and Carolyn Kohrs first visited Montana’s Flathead Valley from their home in Minnesota, they were drawn to the landscape along the Stillwater River. In 2005, they bought 20 acres beside the river, already believing that the land should remain protected. Over the next 17 years, the couple gradually assembled 655 acres of rich…
Photo Credit: ESLC via easternshoreundercover.com When Louise and John Durocher bought 116 acres in Kent County, Maryland, the property was intended primarily as a hunting retreat. Over the next two decades, however, the couple gradually changed its purpose. They stopped growing crops and began restoring the fields with native grasses, wildflowers, shrubs and trees. They…
Shaili Singh (Image credit: X) The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) will approach the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the measurement of Shaili Singh’s fourth attempt in the women’s long jump at the Asian Games.The AFI claims that officials measured the jump from a shorter mark, which cost Shaili a medal. Shaili finishes…
For Biddle, the farm represents decades of work and memories (Bellisario Student Media photo) For 70 years, Jeff Biddle has lived and worked on Bear Meadows Farm near Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania. He has raised cattle, grown crops and watched bears, turkeys, deer and waterfowl from the woods around his home. In July this year,…
TTP suspicion after 3 traffic cops killed in Pakistan gun attack (ANI file photo) Three traffic police officers were killed and three others injured in a gun attack in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, the Associated Press cited police.The attack took place in Wazirabad Bazaar in Tank district when suspected militants on motorcycles opened…
India’s Rahi Sarnobat competes during the rapid stage of the women’s 25m pistol qualification event. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India were left ruing a costly and extraordinary lapse by experienced shooter Rahi Sarnobat after a rare miss in the women’s 25m pistol team event derailed their medal hopes at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya…
Anushka Sharma’s ice-cream lesson offers a fresh take on healthy eating For many parents, taking a child to an ice-cream museum and then saying, “Eat as much as you want,” may sound like the opposite of teaching healthy eating. But when Anushka Sharma tried it with her daughter Vamika, she noticed something that made her…
Tidal flooding reaches homes, as a strong nor’easter coastal storm batters the US northeast coast, in Hampton, New Hampshire, US Residents of coastal communities in the Northeast slogged through floodwaters for a second day as a powerful nor’easter pummeled the shoreline Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes.Tidal surges swamped low-lying neighborhoods…
