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Special Desk Beijing Olympics has got its first world leader guest. Russian president Vladimir Putin has agreed to attend 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. This makes him one of the first major world leaders to indicate his attendance. His remarks came in a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, …

Special Desk The 2022-Winter Olympic games slated in Beijing, China might face diplomatic boycott from the US and a few other countries. US President Joe Biden has said that he is weighing a US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. “That is something we are considering,” he told …

Special Desk Lucknow, the city is now a ‘cricket team’ worth Rs 7,090, for the IPL matches along with Ahemdabad. RPSG Ventures Ltd. has bagged the ownership rights of the Lucknow franchise for Rs 7,090 crore while private equity firm Irelia Company Pte Ltd. (CVC Capital Partners) has bought the …

Special Desk Six-time champion Serena Williams has pulled out of next week’s US Open. She shared with her fans that she took the decision to allow her body to heal. With this Serena became the latest high-profile player to leave the game. In her social media account, the 39-year-old American …

Special Desk Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten thought she made a gold but the medal went to her rival Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer. Well the story goes like this. Annemiek van Vleuten raised her hands is confidence of winning a gold. The fact was Anna Kiesenhofer had finished 75 seconds ahead …

Dr. Seema Javed Heat and humidity levels hit extreme levels this week as Tokyo Olympics start today. The Japan’s environment agency has issued a Heat Stroke Alerts. Data suggests that the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature – a measure combining heat and humidity, used by organisers to assess safety – hit …

IS THIS MONEY ONLY? Emergence of Indian origin American Abhimanyu Mishra as the youngest chess grandmaster at 12 years and 4 months of age, breaking a record by three months that Sergey Karjakin held for 19 years, took the chess world by storm. Karjakin was 12 years and 7 months …

Overconfidence! Was this an overconfidence of the Board of Control for Cricket in India or skipper Virat Kohli or coach Ravi Shastri as they didn’t thinks necessary a good preparation, including practice match on English soil before taking on New Zealand in the World Test Championship (WTC) final? India’s pathetic …

Special Desk While debate over once again postponing Tokyo Olympics goes on one member of Uganda’s Olympic squad has become has tested positive for covid, the first to test positive for Covid-19 on arrival in Japan. The competition is slated to start on 23 July. The event was postponed last …

Special Desk Amid rising concerns the Brazil president has defended hosting of the Copa America tournament despite the raging Covid pandemic. Brazil has been hit hard by the pandemic, with nearly 463,000 deaths reported till now. Copa America was originally set to be co-hosted by Argentina and Colombia back in …