- Tajinderpal Singh Toor wins gold in Ghotput
- India's Tajinderpal Singh Toor defended his Asian Games crown by clinching a gold medal in shotput in the ongoing Hangzhou Games
- toor secured his place in Indian sports history by becoming the fourth indian shot putter ever to successfully defend his Asian Games title
- toor followed in the footsteps of Parduman Singh Brar Jogindar Singh and Bahadur Singh Chouhan to join this elite company...Read more
2. Avinash Sable wins gold in men's 3000m steeplechase
- India's Avinash Sable won the gold medal in the men's 3000m steeplechase at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Sunday
- he took top honors with a timing of 8:19:50s, breaking the games and the record along the way
- sable's medal is India's 12th gold at this edition of the Asian games and the first track and field in Hangzhou...Read more
3. Aditi Ashok clinches historic silver in the individual golf event
- India's star golfer Aditi Ashok created history by clinching a first event medal in the women's individual event at the ongoing 19th Asian Games on Sunday
- Aditi won a silver medal with- 17 at par Indian women's golfers had never won a medal in Asian Games history before
- India has only two individual gold medals in golf by Lakshman Singh (1982) and Shiv Kapur (2002)...Read more
4. India wins gold in trap men's team event
- the Indian men's team comprising Darius Chenai Zoravar Singh Sandhu and Prithviraj Tondaiman has claimed in the trap event
- this was India's 21st medal in shooting at the Asian Games 2023
- India was able to fend off competition from Kuwait and China to secure the top spot on the podium to take the tally in shooting to 21 medals with 7 gold 9 silver and 5 bronze...Read more
5. Indian origin Pereira wins Singapore's 1st athletics Asian Games gold
- Shanti Pereira who won Singapore's first Asian Games athletics gold medal in almost 50 years in the women's 200m final in Hangzhou has an Indian connection
- Shanti's father Clarence Pereira is a descendant of a family based in Pala in Kottayam who migrated to Singapore her mother is from Singapore
- earlier Shanti had won a silver in the 100m final...Read more
6. Katalin Kariko drew Weissman get Nabel prize for medicine
- Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nabel Prize for work on messenger RNA technology that paved the way for groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines
- mRNA technology is now being used to develop other treatments for diseases and illnesses such as cancer influenza failure
- the pair will receive their Nobel prize consisting of a diploma a gold medal and a $1 million cheque...Read more
7. Mathematician Ruixing Zhang to receive the 2023 Sastra Ramanujan Prize
- Ruixiang Zhang assistant professor University of California Berkeley USA will be awarded the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions to mathematics
- the annual cash prize of USD 10000 will be given at an international conference in number theory on December 20 and December 22 at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown...Read more
8. Har Ghar solar campaign in Lucknow and Varanasi
- the state government of Uttar Pradesh will launch a month-long har ghar solar campaign in Lucknow and Varanasi to promote the use of renewable energy through the installation of solar rooftops
- the government aims to generate 6000 MW of solar policy in 2022
- Lucknow and Varanasi are among the 18 cities being developed as solar cities in up...Read more
9. Agostini Krausz L'Huillier Gets Nobel prize for physics
- Scientists Pierre Agostini Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for experimental methods that generate those pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter
- the prize which was raised this year to 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million ) is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science...Read more
- India's skating contingent captured its first medal at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou as the women's speed skating 3000m relay team consisting of Heeral Sadhu Kartika Jagadeeswaran and Aarathy Kasturi Raj secured a bronze medal
- India's men's team of Aryan Pal Anand Kumar Siddhant and Vikram followed up with the Indian women's speed skating team and nabbed a bronze in the final event...Read more
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