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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicParalymic Games

Topic: Paralymic Games

A promise to her father kept Preethi Pal going in Paralympics. Big wedding for sister if she wins medal

Pal, who became the 1st Indian woman to earn 2 medals in track and field in Paris, talks to ThePrint about the challenges of being born with cerebral palsy and her journey to the top.

India scripts history with 20 medals in Paris Paralympics 2024, surpasses Tokyo’s haul

In the Tokyo edition (24 August - 5 September 2021), India recorded its best-ever medal haul with a tally of 19, including five gold, eight silver and six bronze.

UK astronaut McFall flies Flag at 2024 Paralympic Games

John McFall, a former Bronze medalist for Great Britain in the Beijing 2008 games, is now an astronaut reserve with a physical disability.

Italy’s Valentina Petrillo to be first openly transgender athlete at Paralympic Games

The 50-year-old will represent Italy in women's 200 and 400-meter races in Paris this year. The sprinter transitioned in 2019.

Inclusivity, corporate glam, SRK — Hyundai ready to put Indian para-athletes in fifth gear

Samarth initiative was launched by HMIF as part of its corporate social responsibility. A sum of Rs 11 lakh to be disbursed annually has been promised to the athletes.

Paralympics javelin throw champion Sumit Antil wins gold, breaks own world record

This was India’s 10th gold at the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Para Games with the total medal count now at 36.

On Camera

Anand Gandhi is taking his biggest moonshot from Goa— vaanars, rakshasis, manushyas

Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title in the East for this enterprise is the Buddha.’

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.