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Manika Batra beats France’s Prithika Pavade in table tennis women’s singles at Paris Olympics

Batra is the first Indian table tennis player to reach Olympics pre-quarter finals. She defeated her French opponent by 4-0.

Do not apply if you have Seine-sitive skin & who’s winning the Budget Olympics

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Paris Olympics: Manu-Sarabjot enter bronze playoff in 10m air pistol mixed team; Babuta finishes 4th

Babuta shot a total of 208.4 in the air rifle individual final. A last shot of 9.5, in response to Croatian Miran Maricic's 10.7, put paid to his hopes of finishing on the podium.

Pakistan’s Jehanara Nabi broke barriers to reach Olympics. Men worried about what she wore

Pakistani swimmer Jehanara Nabi competed in the 200 m freestyle event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She recorded a time of 2:10.69, placing third in her heat and 26th overall.

Paris Olympics: 24 hours before 1st race, swimming training cancelled over Seine water quality

This is the 2nd day that training has been cancelled after heavy rains affected the water. A swimmable Seine is a key legacy Games organisers aim to leave behind for Paris residents.

Rohan Bopanna & N Sriram Balaji lose 1st round, crash out of tennis men’s doubles at Paris Olympics

Duo lost 7-5, 6-2, against French pair Gael Monfils & Edouard Roger-Vasselin in straight sets. Bopanna & Balaji made 15 unforced errors, which stopped them from taking control of match.

Manu Bhaker wins bronze in 10m air pistol – India’s first medal in Paris Olympics

Indian shooting endured two Olympics without a medal before the 22-year-old Manu fought hard to get the bronze with a score of 221.7.

PV Sindhu begins Olympics run with win over Maldives’ Fathimath Abdul Razzaq

In the women's singles, Sindhu will face tough competition from the likes of Tokyo gold medallist Chen Yufei and world number one An Se Young of South Korea.

Behind Paris Olympics train attack, an unfolding story—rise of new caliphate in Africa

Ever since 9/11, the world has known the price that has to be paid for letting jihadists shelter inside imploded nations—but has proved remarkably unwilling to do what's needed.

French rail sabotage, Pakistan designates Netanyahu ‘terrorist’ & other global news you may have missed

ThePrint’s round-up of world news and topical issues over the past week.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.