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Topic: paralympics

Forces behind blind football in India: Self-taught coach & player with 2028 Paralympics goal

India’s men’s blind football team is ranked 14th globally, and the women’s team, launched in 2019, holds an impressive second position.

Sumit Antil’s paralympics dream was born in the land of akhadas. How he spun pain into glory

From struggling with a prosthetic leg to defending his Tokyo gold in Paris despite intense back pain, the javelin para athlete from Haryana has achieved what many only dream of.

Praveen Kumar brings India’s 6th gold medal at Paralympics, breaks asian T64 high jump record

India's medal tally in the ongoing Paralympics is now 26 — 6 gold, 9 silver & 11 bronze.

These ‘failed athletes’ at GoSports power India’s Olympic, Paralympic dream—and break barriers

While GoSports is backed by three best friends, Olympic Gold Quest is the brainchild of former hockey captain Viren Rasquinha.

Global media on Modi’s ‘wait-and-see’ Ukraine strategy & transformation into ‘expert on U-turns’

Impending strike at 12 government-run ports & heartwarming story of India’s armless archery prodigy Sheetal Devi also find place in foreign media reports.

Biden announces US delegation for opening and closing ceremonies of Paralympics

The Opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will be held on 28 August.

Day after Padma Shri, Haryana wrestler starts protest in Delhi over ‘unfair’ treatment by state

Three-time ‘Deaflympics’ gold-medalist wrestler Virender Singh is seeking recognition on a par with para athletes from the Manohar Lal Khattar government.

PM Modi felicitates India’s Paralympic contingent, receives autographed stole

The Indian para-athletes returned from Tokyo on the back of a campaign that saw them win 19 medals, including 5 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze, and finish 24th in the overall tally.

Indian federations lack awareness on Paralympics classification of athletes. It shows in Tokyo

Indian para-athletes’ performance at the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 must lead to entry of qualified classifiers so that more para-athletes can compete in future games.

Sumit Antil bags India’s second gold at Paralympics, sets world record in javelin throw

The 23-year-old para-athlete from Haryana sent the spear to 68.55m in his 5th attempt. Australian Michal Burian & Sri Lanka's Dulan Kodithuwakku won silver & bronze respectively.

On Camera

The very people that Naxals claimed to fight for have rejected them

Security forces are successfully neutralising top Maoist leaders. The extremists are finally being rooted out through the determined efforts of the Indian government.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

What’s a National Security Strategy & why CDS Gen Chauhan feels India doesn’t need one on paper

In his new book, CDS emphasises that India secures itself through policy & structure, not a written NSS document. Israel never released a formal NSS, he mentions.

There’s an all-new N-word now. And India’s soft power has become its hard liability

India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.