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Khajan Singh Tokas is one of the most outstanding swimmers India has ever produced. Born on 6 May 1964, in a small village of Munirka in Delhi, Khajan Singh stands tall in a sport, where mediocrity has been the byword for Indian sportspeople. He is currently working with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and his achievements in swimming are still fresh in the minds of sports enthusiasts of the country. ​ Khajan Singh Tokas  is one of the most outstanding swimmers India has ever produced. He is currently DIG at CRPF. Born on 6 May 1964, in a small village of Munirka in Delhi, Khajan Singh stands tall in a sport, where mediocrity has been the byword for Indian sportspeople. He made a sensational debut in competitive swimming, when he bagged five gold medals at the National School Championships held in 1981-82. While he is currently working with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), his achievements in swimming are still fresh in the minds of sports enthusiasts of the country. Khajan...

  India's Neeraj Chopra scripted history on Sunday as he became the second Indian to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships after Anju Bobby George achieved the feat in 2003. Neeraj registered a throw of 88.13m in his fourth attempt and hence he secured the silver medal. Anderson Peters secured the gold medal after registering a throw of 90.54m. To know more: https://sports.ndtv.com/athletics/commendable-that-what-neeraj-chopra-said-to-pakistan-javelin-thrower-arshad-nadeem-at-world-athletics-championships-3190127

  Moscow ally Pyongyang in February said US policy was the "root cause of the Ukraine crisis", and this month formally recognised two self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, prompting Kyiv to cut diplomatic ties with North Korea. North Korea accused the United States on Sunday of manufacturing biological weapons in Ukraine, echoing a Russian claim dismissed by the United Nations in March. To know more: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/north-korea-accuses-us-of-biological-warfare-in-ukraine-101658655491278.html

  A Chinese journalist allegedly tried to kill herself after she received an onslaught of criticism from Chinese nationals for an emotional reportage on the killing of Shinzo Abe. The journalist, Zeng Ying, was brutally trolled by Chinese netizens for sobbing while reporting live on Shinzo Abe’s assassination earlier this month. Many Chinese netizens thought Ying showing emotions on her live stream for Shanghai’s online media outlet The Paper was “unprofessional” and “unpatriotic”, according to a report by the Independent. She was criticized for not considering the stance of the Chinese people regarding Abe’s controversial political legacy. To know more: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/chinese-journalist-wept-on-air-over-shinzo-abe-death-attempts-suicide-cyber-bullied-1979243-2022-07-24

  A Filipino man recently came up with a unique idea to ensure his wife could still be on vacation with him even though she had to cancel their holiday plans at the last moment. Raymond Fortunado had long planned a vacation to Coron in Palawan, the Philippines. However, at the last minute, his wife Joanne Fortunado - a freelance model - had to cancel the plans, as per media outlet  Kami . But to ensure that his promise of going everywhere with his partner remained unbroken, Mr Raymond took a meme-face pillow of his wife on the holiday. Taking to Facebook, Mr Raymond shared a series of photos of the “romantic” vacation, in which he could be seen doing all sorts of touristy things with his wife's meme-face pillow.  To know more: https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/philippines-man-goes-on-vacation-with-wifes-face-pillow-hilarious-post-leaves-internet-in-splits-3188228

  Japan, Singapore and South Korea have the most powerful passports in the world,  according to the latest rankings released by Henley Passport Index. A Japanese passport provides hassle-free entry to 193 countries and remains the most powerful for the fifth year in a row. Singapore and South Korea, which according to the latest Henley Passport Index are at number 2 and 3 slots respectively provide access to 192 countries. To know more: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/indian-passport-holders-do-not-need-prior-visa-to-travel-to-60-countries-11658298643688.html

  When the sky turned pink in Australia's northern Victorian town Mildura, residents were expectedly left spellbound, considering various eerie possibilities – from alien invasion to a portal to spacetime continuum. Photos and videos were widely circulated on social media platforms as locals witnessed a pink glow emerging into the sky. To know more: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/sky-turns-pink-in-australia-town-locals-think-of-aliens-what-actually-happened-101658573270042.html

  Rishi Sunak on Sunday promised to get tough on China if he becomes Britain's next prime minister, calling the Asian superpower the "number one threat" to domestic and global security. The former finance minister's pledge comes after his rival in the final two of the race to lead the ruling Conservative party, Liz Truss, accused him of being weak on China and Russia. China's state-run Global Times has previously said Sunak was the only candidate in the contest with "a clear and pragmatic view on developing UK-China ties". The Daily Mail, which has come out for Foreign Secretary Truss in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, called that "the endorsement that nobody wanted". Sunak's proposals include the closure of all 30 Confucius Institutes in Britain, preventing the soft-power spread of Chinese influence through culture and language programmes. He also promised to "kick the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) out of our universities" by...

  New Delhi:  Droupadi Murmu was administered oath of office by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana. Former president Ram Nath Kovind, outgoing Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were present at the event To know more: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/president-elect-droupadi-murmu-to-take-oath-today-10-points-3189839#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

  The afterlife of the movie star with a single, iconic role is a curiosity. Between 1976 and 1979, Lynda Carter appeared in three seasons of Wonder Woman , a hit so huge that for those of us who saw it as children, she remains a somewhat mystical figure. Knight Rider was great, the A-Team was fun, but Wonder Woman – jumping between boulders, sparks flying from her wrist plates – was something else. Here is Carter today, in a pastel-colored blazer on video chat from her home in Maryland, and although I’m a 46-year-old woman with two children and a mortgage, I can’t help it: I’m completely agog. “It was such a short part of my life, but it has made a bigger impact than any other thing I’ve done,” says Carter, who is 70 and looks nothing of the sort. Among the many reasons to love her, is her good grace in the face of a generation’s obsession with those three short years of her life. To know more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/25/lynda-carter-interview-twitter-w...

  Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners , including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, according to state media, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades. The four men, including former legislator Phyo Zeya Thaw and prominent democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, known as Jimmy, had been sentenced to death in January in closed trials. On Monday, the junta-controlled Global New Light of Myanmar said that the sentences had been carried out. The men had been accused of conspiring to commit terror acts, it said. Local media reported that the families of the men had travelled to Insein Prison, in Yangon, demanding to see their loved one’s bodies To know more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/25/myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-state-media

Sethurathnam Ravi, popularly known as S Ravi is the former chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (BSE). Currently he is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ravi Rajan & Co., an advisory and accountancy firm, headquartered in New Delhi, India. He is also an Associate Member of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), USA, and also a registered Insolvency Resolution Professional. Sethurathnam Ravi BSE Fmr Chairman Sethurathnam Ravi BSE , popularly known as S Ravi is the former chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange Limited (BSE). Currently he is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ravi Rajan & Co., an advisory and accountancy firm, headquartered in New Delhi, India. When the Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman was all set to present the Union Budget on February 1, for the financial year 2022-23, rebate in taxation, simplifying investment and offering of further incentives to the Indian start-ups and MSMEs were the expectations from the ...

  Yusuf Zahab, who was taken to Syria when he was 11, was wounded in January during fighting between IS fighters and Kurdish-led forces at a makeshift prison An Australian teenager is believed to have died in a Syrian prison holding Islamic State (IS) suspects, months after he begged the Australian government for assistance, his family and a leading rights group have said. Yusuf Zahab was detained in Guweiran prison in Hasakah city alongside suspected IS members for more than three years when it was attacked by IS in January in an attempt to free its fighters. During the fighting, an audio recording by Zahab begging for help made it outside the jail and was widely publicised. "I got injured in my head and my hand," Zahab said at the time. "I lost a lot of blood … There's no doctors here, there's no one who can help me. I'm very scared. I need help. Please… [My] friends got killed in front of me, a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old… There's a lot of bodies, dead...

  Oil prices rose on Monday morning by several percentage points, after US President Joe Biden returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia over the weekend without a firm pledge from Gulf oil producers to boost supplies. The price for Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rose more than four percent to $105 per barrel on Monday morning, pushing the price back to above $100 where it has stayed for nearly half of this year. Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia, where he met leaders of several Opec countries and other regional leaders in a summit in Jeddah, had been viewed as an attempt to call on Riyadh to boost its oil production in order to reduce global crude prices. However, administration officials downplayed its oil demands ahead of the visit. To know more: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/global-oil-prices-rise-after-biden-returns-saudi-arabia

  The right to boycott is likely heading to the US Supreme Court after a court of appeals upheld an Arkansas law restricting contractors from boycotting Israel. With major implications for freedom of speech in the US, it is worth re-examining the historical use of boycott as a tool of resistance by anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist grassroots movements for justice, and the case of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement called for by Palestinians. Unlike broad-based sanctions that are imposed by powerful states, often unilaterally and as a means of punishment, boycott movements are rooted in the resistance of people against the injustices of those in power, as a tool of accountability for human rights abuses. The term "boycott" was first coined in 1880, after Irish tenants refused to pay unaffordable rental increases forced on them by an English land agent, Charles Cunningham Boycott. However, the practice of using such nonviolent means to effect change was ...

  Tensions between Turkey and Iran have grown over a set of issues, from Iranian attempts to target Israelis to Kurdish militant groups Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heads to Iran on Tuesday under the shadow of increasing tensions between Ankara and Tehran over the latter’s intelligence activities on Turkish territory. Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi are attending a round of high-level talks between their countries, and later will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin as part of the so-called Astana process to discuss Syria. It is believed the primary agenda will be Ankara’s wish to conduct a new military operation in northern Syria against Syrian Kurdish forces. Erdogan has postponed visiting Iran several times over the past year, which has been interpreted in Turkey as a sign of troubled relations between the two countries. Turkish authorities last month detained a suspected assassination team allegedly ordered by Iranian intelligence to kill Israeli touris...

  South Korean Daewoo and Spanish Navantia have proven air independent propulsion technology and are willing to build long endurance submarines under strategic partnership model with Indian MDL and L&T defence majors. Even though the Defence Ministry has again extended the deadline for submitting the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the advanced submarine project to November 30, South Korean Daewoo and Spanish Navantia has shown interest in building the long endurance diesel submarine under the strategic partnership model with India. The RFP was first issued in July 2021 and extended to November 30, 2022, from June 30, 2022, deadline. To know more: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/korea-and-spain-defence-majors-ready-to-participate-in-75-i-submarine-project-101658195574099.html

  Members of people-smuggling gang who trafficked almost 700 migrants to the European Union from Iraq and Syria have been arrested in a series of raids across Europe. Europe's crime agency Europol arrested 11 people in Germany, Poland and Lithuania. The raids came at the end of a week in which more than 1,000 migrants have crossed the Channel illegally to Britain. The migrants had been charged between €10,000 to €13,000 ($10,042- $13,055) for the smuggling service from their country of origin, via Belarus, to Germany.

  Global shipments of electric vehicles rose an annual 79 per cent to about 1.95 million units in the first quarter of 2022, with Tesla continuing to dominate the market, a study by Counterpoint Research has shown. China emerged as a crucial market for the EV industry both from a consumer and manufacturing standpoint, with EV shipments in the world's second-biggest economy leaping 126 per cent to more than 1.14 million in the three-month period ending March 31. The opening of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai helped the company significantly boost its deliveries in the country, Hong Kong-based Counterpoint said. To know more: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/road-to-net-zero/2022/07/15/global-ev-shipments-surge-79-in-q1-with-tesla-in-the-driving-seat/

  THE Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in its draft charge against 35 accused booked in the alleged drugs case filed following the death of actor  Sushant Singh Rajput  in 2020 has said that the accused had entered a criminal conspiracy with each other for distribution of drugs “in high society and Bollywood”. The draft also states that delivery of drugs for Rajput had been taking place since 2018. It adds that in 2020, drugs were procured for Rajput’s consumption by the accused, including the late actor’s flatmate Siddharth Pithani, claiming that he “aided and abetted” the actor to “extreme drug addiction.” TO KNOW MORE; https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/sushant-extreme-drug-addiction-aided-abetted-ncb-draft-charge-8025602/

  Every year, about 1.35 million people die from road traffic injuries, the World Health Organisation has said. A further 50 million people worldwide are hurt or disabled by such injuries, placing the issue of road safety high on the UN agenda. However, much of the world has fallen short of a target to halve the number of road deaths and injuries by 2020. People aged 15 to 29 were found to have the greatest chance of dying in a road crash. Traffic injuries are currently thought to be the eighth leading cause of death across the world. This is predicted to climb to seventh by 2030. But how does the Middle East compare when it comes to keeping people safe on the roads? To know more: https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/transport/2022/07/12/why-the-middle-east-is-trailing-in-the-fight-against-road-deaths/

  Bitcoin fell back below $20,000 on Tuesday after enjoying its strongest week in more than three months last week, as a surge in the greenback rippled through global markets. The largest cryptocurrency dropped as much as 2.6 per cent to $19,870, declining for a fourth straight day ahead of US consumer-price data Tuesday. It hit $22,472 on Friday as risk appetite returned to broader assets. Second-largest Ether slid as much as 4.1 per cent to $1,090.94. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 100 index dropped as much as 2.6 per cent. “Expect apathetic back-end vol and basis flows in another summer trading week with CPI likely to be the main event on July 13,” Genesis’s Noelle Acheson and Gordon Grant said in a note Monday. “Notwithstanding a modicum of fireworks around last Friday’s weekly options expiry that saw Bitcoin blow through $22,000 and touch the 200-week moving average, with Ether pushing toward $1,300 in sympathy, the weekend session saw a resumption of choppy, downwardly...