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Up against Ukraine’s Mariia Yefremova in the 53kg final of the U20 championships in Amman, Jordan last week, Antim, 19, knew she was in for a tough outing, despite dropping just two points on the way to the final.Using her quick movements and double-leg attacks, Antim dominated Mariia and sealed the bout with a dominant 4-0 win to achieve the historic milestone.”The last time I went for the U20 World Championships, I was informed by my coaching team that no Indian woman wrestler had won a gold medal, and I was the first one.””This time, too, I wanted to more…

Kolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) Two former champions, Indian Super League (ISL) club East Bengal and I-League winners Gokulam Kerala, meet in the second quarterfinal of the 132nd Durand Cup on Friday, hoping to make the most of their chances and advance to the semis.The clash at Kolkata’s Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) will be between two teams that are at the opposite end of the spectrum.East Bengal have won the Durand Cup 16 times, the joint highest, and led the head-to-head 3-2 in six previous encounters against the Malabarians.The last game between the two ended in a draw but Gokulam…

London, Aug 24 (IANS) Essex have signed up Indian fast-bowler Umesh Yadav for the last three games of the ongoing County Championship season. Yadav, 35, has played 57 Tests for India apart from 75 ODIs and nine T20Is, taking a combined 288 wickets.He had represented Middlesex in last year’s County Championship season. Umesh hasn’t played competitive cricket since featuring in the 2023 World Test Championship Final against Australia at The Oval in June.Signing up for Essex means Umesh will be available for their clashes against Middlesex, Hampshire and Northamptonshire in the County circuit.“I am really pleased to join Essex and…

Lahore, Aug 24 (IANS) Pacers Mohammad Hasnain and Shahnawaz Dahani along with leg-spinner Usman Qadir have been named in Pakistan Shaheens’ squad for the Asian Games men’s T20 cricket event, set to take place in Hangzhou, China, from September 28 to October 7.Hasnain, Dahani and Qadir, along with Aamir Jamal, Arshad Iqbal, Asif Ali, Haider Ali and Khushdil Shah, have already represented the Pakistan men’s team at the international level.The squad will be captained by 20-year-old all-rounder Qasim Akram, who featured in 20 first-class matches and 40 T20 matches. He also captained the Pakistan U19 side in the 2022 ICC…

Birmingham, Aug 24 (IANS) The Indian women’s blind cricket team made history on Thursday by becoming the first team to qualify for the final of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) World Games 2023 on the back of their stellar show here.The Indian women’s team qualified for the final with their third successive victory in the league phase, against Australia on Wednesday night.Blind cricket made its debut in IBSA World Games last week with England and Australia playing the first match. When the Indian women’s cricket team played their first match of the tournament on August 20, the Women In…

Chennai, August 24 (IANS) Though Indian chess Grandmaster (GM) R. Praggnanandhaa finished runner-up in the strong FIDE World Cup held at Baku in Azerbaijan on Wednesday, the 18-year-old chess prodigy booked his seat in the Candidates Tournament to be held in Canada next year.In the World Cup final tie-breaker, Praggnanandhaa went down fighting to world No. 1 by rating and former world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway.Interestingly, for both the players, it was their maiden World Cup outing with one winning the Cup, and the other finishing second.With this, Praggnanandhaa (ELO rating 2,707), ranked fourth in the world in the…

Bengaluru, Aug 24 (IANS) As India’s Asia Cup-bound players begin their six-day conditioning camp in the city ahead of the six-team event, how wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul shapes up from a fitness perspective will be keenly witnessed.During the Asia Cup squad announcement press conference in New Delhi on Monday, chief selector Ajit Agarkar said Rahul had recovered from a right thigh injury at the NCA but picked up a niggle unrelated to the original injury which could keep him out of the initial phase of the Asia Cup.As per a report in ESPNCricinfo, the NCA’s medical team is believed to be…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) As the 28 per cent GST on online gaming continues to hammer the sector, Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, said on Thursday that gaming companies should innovate and develop more games based on our culture, like Ramayana and Mahabharata, to increase their reach among the masses.Addressing the second edition of the IDGS Gaming Conclave, organised by the Indian Digital Gaming Society (IDGS) in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), he told the industry players to develop games on Indian culture.“Let us realise the value of our culture…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Google on Thursday released a new doodle on its web browser celebrating Chandrayaan-3’s successful landing on the moon’s South Pole.”You’ll catch us smiling every time we open the Google homepage today Here’s celebrating the historic feat by @isro’s #Chandrayaan3 and the first landing on the moon’s south pole, with this #GoogleDoodle,” Google posted on X (formerly Twitter) with a GIF of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landing on the moon.Google wrote in the description section about how the Chandrayaan-3 mission began in July 2023 and culminated on Wednesday evening with the successful soft landing of Vikram, the land…

San Francisco, Aug 24 (IANS) Google has announced that users can now see speaker notes while co-presenting Google Slides in Google Meet. Earlier this year, the company added a feature that allows multiple people to present a Slides presentation together in Meet. “Starting today, co-presenters are now also able to view speaker notes,” the tech giant said in a Workspace Updates blogpost on Wednesday.This means that primary and co-presenters can now read from the same speaker notes while engaging with their audience during a presentation.This will allow everyone to present with greater confidence and reduce context switching between Meet and Slides.The…