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Gong Lijiao, 34, will be seeking her 3rd world title for women’s shot put in her ninth world championships while Liu Shiying aims for her first worlds title in the javelin throw, reports Xinhua.The Olympic champion duo will be joined by teammates including men’s long jump reigning champion Wang Jianan, defending champion in women’s discus throw Feng Bin and the bronze medalist at Tokyo Liu Hong.The 2023 World Athletics Championships will feature 49 medal events. More than 2,100 athletes from over 200 teams will compete at Hungary’s new National Athletics Centre between August 19-27.Women:He Wuga, Li Zhixuan, Zhang Deshun, Li…

The girls are upset over the fact that while the entry timing for women to enter the hostel is 6.30 p.m., the curfew of boys to enter their hostel is 9 p.m.Since they felt that the differences in the curfew timings was not fair, the girls have now approached the legal system by pointing out a 2019 Kerala government order stating that the entry time for women in college hostels affiliated with the state universities, has been fixed at 9.30 p.m.The court has posted the case for hearing on August 18 after the counsel representing the college sought time to…

With participation of over 600 players from 79 countries, the Dubai 2023 Championships is expected to witness high level competition with Paralympic and World champions fighting for top honours in the road to Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.The meeting held at the Dubai Club for People of Determination was chaired by Thani Juma Berregad who confirmed the completion of preparations for presenting an exceptional edition of the Championships, to be held under the patronage of Sheikh Mansour bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council and Chairman of the Higher Committee for the Protection of the Rights…

Since the annual pilgrimage started on July 1, over 4.30 lakh Yatris have performed the yatra. Officials said over 1,600 Yatris had ‘Darshan’ inside the cave shrine on Friday, while another batch of 915 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu in an escorted convoy for the valley on Saturday. “Of these 915 Yatris, 736 are male, 151 are female, 25 Sadhus and 3 Sadhvis”, officials said. –IANSsq/ksk

At the 90-minute hearing on Friday in Washington D.C., US District Judge Tanya Chuktan noted that while Trump’s rights as a criminal defendant would be protected, his First Amendment right to free speech was “not absolute”, CNN reported.“In a criminal case such as this one, the defendant’s free speech is subject to the rules,” she said.”He is a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every single other defendant. The fact that the defendant is engaged in a political campaign is not going to allow him any greater or lesser latitude than any defendant in a criminal case.”Judge…

A senior Customs official said the supsect was arrested on Wednesday while he was awaiting to board a Dubai-bound flight.The 1559.6 carats natural and lab-grown diamonds were “ingeniously concealed inside a tea packet”, the official added.He further said the accused was subsequently presented before a local court, which remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody.Further investigation into the matter is ongoing.–IANSatk/ksk

At their arraignment on Thursday, the Prosecutor’s Office presented charges against the Colombian citizens, the office said on Friday in a statement.Presented among the charges were evidence reports, eyewitness accounts, the autopsy protocol, ballistic results and security camera videos, among other elements.After the armed attack that killed Villavicencio, the six suspects were arrested on Wednesday in their homes in two Quito neighbourhoods, where weapons and three grenades were found, Xinhua news agency reported.The office specified that according to the autopsy protocol, Villavicencio “was shot from long distance, while the ballistic report determined that the casings coincide with one of the…

With almost 1,200 elephants killed in the last 10 years across India — 245 of them in the past three years in Odisha alone — the gentle giants are at a grave risk, with just 27,000 left in the country at present.And with Kerala losing 58 per cent of its wild elephants in the last six years, according to a 2023 forest department data, there “seems no sense of urgency to implement solutions and deal with a crisis unfolding in India,” says multiple award-winning wildlife filmmaker and elephant conservationist, Sangita Iyer.”India still has a long way to go when it…

Hundreds more have been reported missing and the toll may still rise, BBC reported.It comes as Lahaina residents are being allowed to briefly return home on Friday to take stock of the damage to their fire-ravaged town.They returned amid warnings that they would be greeted by “destruction like they’ve not ever seen in their lives”.State officials reopened Lahaina to people with proof of residency on Friday for the first time since flames swept rapidly through early this week, razing much of the historic town, BBC reported.A curfew will operate daily from 22:00 to 6:00 local time, and some of the…

The SAF said on Friday in a statement that its special forces launched an attack on RSF militants in the Farajallah district near El-Obeid, killing 26 of them and destroying two combat vehicles, Xinhua news agency reported.Eyewitnesses told Xinhua that SAF’s air force continued to bombard RSF strongholds south of Khartoum and in the adjacent city of Omdurman.The Darfur Bar Association announced on Friday that five civilians were killed in clashes between the SAF and the RSF in Sudan’s southwestern South Darfur State.The association said in a statement that the civilians were killed on Thursday evening in an exchange of…