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Bronze lost but hearts won: Indian women’s hockey team signs off 4th at Olympics after narrow loss

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The history-making Indian women’s hockey team’s dream of securing its maiden Olympic medal remained unfulfilled as it lost 3-4 to Great Britain in a hard-fought bronze play-off but the stout-hearted side managed to record its best ever finish at the Games here on Friday. The team had already created history and surpassed all expectations by entering the semifinals of the Games for the first time. But the maiden Olympic medal remained out of bounds as world no.4 Great Britain, who were gold-winners in the 2016 Rio Games, came out on…

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Apple to scan US iPhones for images of child abuse

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Apple unveiled plans to scan US iPhones for images of child abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens. Apple said its messaging app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content without making private communications readable by the company. The tool Apple calls neuralMatch will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people’s messages. If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a…

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Thousands more flee fires outside Athens amid heat wave

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Thousands of residents fled to safety from a wildfire that burned for a fourth day north of Athens early Friday, during an overnight battle to stop the flames reaching populated areas, electricity installations and historic sites. In heat wave conditions, the blaze tore through forest areas 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) north of the capital, destroying more homes. Ground crews of several hundred firefighters dug fire breaks and hosed the flames. Traffic was halted on the country’s main highway connecting Athens to northern Greece, as crews tried to use the road…

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Missing link on Delhi Metro’s Pink Line plugged; becomes network’s longest corridor

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In a major boost for Delhi Metro, a small segment of its Pink Line at Trilokpuri, which had proved a bottleneck for the DMRC authorities for a long time, was inaugurated on Friday, making it the longest operational corridor of the network. With this, the 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor or the Pink Line, which spans 38 stations, has been fully linked for the first time. Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal jointly inaugurated the section of about 289 metre…

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Ensure Tribunal For Money Laundering Cases Is Functional By September 14: High Court To Centre

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Appellate Tribunal of Prevention of Money Laundering: The tribunal is mandated to consist of a Chairman, who has to be a retired judge of this court or high court and four members, who can be from the fields of law, finance and management. The Delhi High Court on Thursday said it expects the Centre to ensure that the Appellate Tribunal of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (ATPMLA) in the national capital is made functional by September 14. The court said numerous petitions are being filed before it every day assailing…

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Airports Authority Revenue Saw 70% Fall Between June Quarters Of 2019-20 And 2021-22

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According to Ministry of Civil Aviation, even footfalls across 97 Indian airports between January 2021 and July 2021 saw a decline of 40 per cent. Hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, which led to the closure of airports across the country after March 2020, with flights available only for major cities during the better part of last year, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) reported a significant 70 per cent fall in its revenue from Rs 2,976.17 crore during April-June 2019 to only Rs 889 crore during April-June 2021. According to Ministry of Civil Aviation…

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Delhi University Signs Agreement With University Of Ladakh

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The MoU was signed by Professor P C Joshi, Acting Vice Chancellor, Delhi University and C Phunsog, Vice Chancellor, University of Ladakh.The Delhi University on Thursday signed an MoU with the University of Ladakh to encourage scientific and academic collaboration between the two varsities, a statement said. The MoU was signed by Professor P C Joshi, Acting Vice Chancellor, Delhi University and C Phunsog, Vice Chancellor, University of Ladakh, it said. While the Delhi University (DU) is in its year of centenary, the University of Ladakh (UOL) is one of the youngest…

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Tokyo Olympics: Indian Men’s Hockey Team Wins Bronze; Wrestler Ravi Dahiya Wins Debut Silver

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Tokyo Olympics: The Indian men’s hockey team clinched a historic bronze medal even as wrestler Ravi Dahiya returned silver in men’s freestyle 57kg but Vinesh Phogat bowed out at the Games on Thursday. India’s newest wrestling star Ravi Dahiya picked up an impressive silver on his Olympic debut but the country was left emotionally stirred by its lionhearted men’s hockey team players who secured a bronze that washed away four decades of pain and disappointment that the sport and its followers have endured. Thirteen years after failing to even qualify for the Games, an…

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In 3 Days, 6 Bridges Wash Away In Rain-Hit Madhya Pradesh, Probe Ordered

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A government report accessed by DIN says that four of the six bridges that got washed away were built in the past 12 years at a cost of 33.55 crores. The washing away of six bridges in three days in rain-hit Gwalior-Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh has raised quetions over the built quality of the structures developed by the state over the past decades. A government report accessed by NDTV says that four of the six bridges that got washed away were built in the past 12 years at a…

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Hockey: So near yet so far for Indian men, lose 2-5 to Belgium to be out of Olympic final race

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 The Indian men’s hockey team’s dream of an Olympic gold after 41 years remained unfulfilled as it lost 2-5 to world champions Belgium in the last-four stage but the side is still in the hunt for a bronze in the Tokyo Games here on Tuesday. Alexander Hendrickx (19th, 49th, 53rd minutes), the tournament’s highest goal getter, scored a hat-trick while Loick Luypaert (2nd minute) and John-John Dohmen (60th) also struck to hand the reigning silver-medallists their second successive entry into the final of the Olympics. India’s goals came from the…

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