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New Delhi The wonder girl from Kashmir Tajamul Islam has won gold at the World kickboxing championship held at Cairo, Egypt. This is the 14-year old Bandipore girl’s second world title; earlier she had won gold medal at the age of eight in the championship held in Andria, Italy in 2016. Tajamul defeated Argentina’s Lalina in final bout in World Kickboxing Championship to win gold medal in under 14 age category. The championship started on October 18 and concluded on October 24, 2021. Islam played four bouts in the event of which she were against players from the host country and the others against players from France and Argentina. The Indian kickboxing team comprised 30 boxers. Tajamul Islam announced her vistory on Twitter: It was really a proud moment for me when i gold gold again in world kickboxing championship in cairo egypt 🇪🇬 2021 now i am 2Times world kickboxing champion  pic.twitter.com/m13AaU6hNC Tajamul Islam has told media time and again that she is aiming at winning...

  Sharjah After a clinical five-wicket victory over New Zealand, Pakistan skipper Babar Azam on Tuesday said that it's great to win and his team will look to carry forward the confidence in the upcoming matches of the ongoing ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Haris Rauf's superb bowling followed by Asif Ali and Shoaib Malik's late blitz helped Pakistan beat New Zealand by five wickets in a Super 12 match of the Men's T20 World Cup 2021 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The victory sends Pakistan back above Afghanistan to the top of Group 2 with two wins from two matches in the tournament. "Feels great to win and we'll look to carry forward the confidence. The spinners started off brilliantly, and Haris and Shaheen carried it through. I would like to compliment our fielding that has carried us through here. I thought we gave 10 runs too many. But this is cricket and it happens," said Babar after the win. Babar also praised Malik and Asif Ali for their m...

Dubai India captain Virat Kohli believes that his team has an exact idea of where the opening match against Pakistan went and where it went wrong for them. He added that brilliant bowling by Pakistan in the first six overs meant that India couldn't get the extra 20-25 runs. In their opening match of the ICC men's T20 World Cup. India were handed a ten-wicket drubbing by Pakistan at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday. "As a team, we need to understand that what was the reality of the situation out there in the middle. That's where those 20-25 extra runs would have been good. But brilliant bowling in the first six, did not allow us to get those extra runs. We know exactly how the game went and where it went wrong. We have absolute clarity of it, which is a good thing to know about where you went wrong as a team," said Kohli in the post-match press conference on Sunday. "So, you can work and try to correct it and move forward because we still have lot mor...

  New Delhi The images of Captain Saria Abbasi guarding the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China that went viral on social media are of a woman from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, who had dreamed of wearing the army uniform since her childhood.  In the pictures and video on social media Abbasi, the Indian Army officer, is shown in front of an L-70 gun. She is part of the Army Air Defense Regiment and posted near LAC in Tawang Sector.   This one video and some pictures suddenly caught the attention of the entire country as it is also a model of women's participation in the Indian Army. Abbasi’s unit is one of the first AD regiments in the country, equipped with 70 guns.   India has deployed anti-aircraft guns L70 in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, amid ongoing tensions on the Indo-China border in eastern Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh. India has already deployed M777 Howitzer and Swedish Bofors cannons in the high-altitude borders against China.   Capt Saria Abbasi in fro...

Mumbai In the last episode of 'Bigg Boss 15', contestants got a straightforward lesson from 'Bigg Boss' for not taking the game seriously. They were sent to the jungle and two eviction slots were opened. However, there is no end to the agony of 'Junglewasis' as they received yet another announcement. The contestants have been divided into pairs. Each pair has a chance to gain entry in the main house using the 'access ticket', but it comes at a cost. The pairs not only have to win the assigned task but also face a deduction of a certain amount from their prize money should they re-enter the main house. Moreover, the jungle will also start taking away the necessities required for survival. The contestants thus have no choice but to face the deductions and try to enter the main house. Jay Bahushali and Pratik Sehajpal, who have been rivals since day one, started working together as a team. They are on a mission to not let anybody win and Pratik starts ruini...

Afghanistan Mahjabin Hakimi, a member of the Afghan women's national volleyball team who played in the youth age group, was beheaded by the Taliban in Kabul. In an interview with the Persian Independent, Suraya Afzali (a pseudonym), one of the coaches of the Afghan women's national volleyball team, confirmed that the athlete had been killed, but said that no one other than Mahjabin's family knew the exact time and manner of the incident. Mahjabin played for the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club before the collapse of the previous Afghan government and was one of the club's most successful players. The report mentioned that Suraya Afzali said the murder of Mahjabin Hakimi probably took place in early October, and that the issue remained hidden because her family had been threatened not to talk to anyone about it. According to Afzali, after the collapse of the previous government, female athletes across Afghanistan faced a serious security threat, and the Taliban pursued...

  One of the largest congregations on  Eid-e-Milad , the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad, across the Kashmir Valley will be held on Tuesday at Hazratbal Shrine, where the caretaker displays a revered relic of the Prophet to the devout after each  Namaz .on this aspicious day. Located on the banks of Dal Lake, the Hazratbal Shrine has been lit up for the festival that sees people from across the Valley coming to have a view of the holy relic – a hair strand of the Prophet encased in a glass casket. For two days the holy relic will be displayed for the public after every Namaaz.   This most revered Muslim shrine in Srinagar spread over the western ghat of the lake and has been developed into an enchanting locale over the years. Combined with the scenic splendor of the lake and the Naseem Bagh campus of the University of Kashmir, located right across the shrine, Hazratbal is also visited by lakhs of tourists.   History has it that the holy relic was brought ...

  NEW DELHI   Nadia Lauricella, 28, was born with a rare condition called Phocomelia in which the child is either born with shortened or no limbs at all. She was born with no arms and with malformed legs.   This rare condition is mostly inherited and can also be caused by mother’s exposure to certain drugs during pregnancy. So far, scientists have found no cure for this condition.   According to the so far information gathered the incidence of phocomelia varies from 0.6 per 1,00,000 live births to 4.2 per 1,00,000 live births throughout the world but the factors leading to true phocomelia are not exactly known.   Shaista Fatima of Awaz-the Voice  got in touch with Nadia, who lives lift to the fullest’ is a social media influencer, and a motivational speaker. Having met the lowest point in her life she gathered herself and rebuilt from scratch.       Here are excerpts from her conversation:   Please walk us through your journey? My name i...

Saquib Salim Sir Syed Ahmad Khan is often remembered as the founder of Aligarh Muslim University. However, while people see him as an educationist, they fail to appreciate his wider intellectual faculties and vision. The organized effort started by him to popularize modern education among Muslims was much more than establishing schools and colleges. Syed Ahmad wanted Indian Muslims to develop scientific temper, rational thinking and logical reasoning. Religious orthodoxy, in his view, was the cause behind backwardness of the Muslim community. Sadly, after almost 150 years, the community continues to face the problem. The world, in the last two years, has witnessed the first major pandemic of the post War era. While on the one hand Covid-19 has shown our limitations in preparing ourselves for such diseases, on the other development of vaccines within a short span is an evidence of the triumph of modern sciences. The devastation caused by the disease is evident and yet a lot of people ar...

Manjit Thakur / New Delhi A film  Sardar Udham  based on the life of a revolutionary is being released on Amazon Prime OTT platform with one of the finest Bollywood actors Vicky Kaushal playing Udham Singh’s role.  Undoubtedly, Sardar Udham Singh’s short and meaningful life is sure to get a huge traction. However, not many would know that the real life Udham Singh too had acted in films – in the Hollywood and the remunerations he received went into funding the activities of the revolutionaries who were fighting against the British. Born on December 26, 1899, Udham Singh’s short life was so eventful and dedicated to the cause of India’s freedom that youth will surely feel inspired to see it on the screen. At the age of 40, he was hanged for the murder of Michael O'Dwyer, the lieutenant governor of Punjab. It is noteworthy that Reginald Dyer had ordered the firing in Jallianwala Bagh and O'Dwyer had later condemned his brutal act. However, being a functionary of the British...

Shaista Fatima/Delhi As India enters into a digital world with much more awareness about the present scenario, the vision and mission of Dr.A P J Abdul Kalam whose birthday falls on October 15, becomes more and more relevant. Steve Jobs often said “dots always connect in the back” which aptly applied to the journalists Neeraj Pandey and Malick Asghar Hashmi’s first hand reports of an incident dated a few years back when apparently both were posted in Haryana. In the middle of the night some panicked villagers ushered in their office with some bizarre information. “They told us that a huge pile of aluminum foil was found at Tilpat Range that otherwise was a barricaded area..”, Hashmi said. Little did Hashmi know that while reading  Wings of Fire,  autobiography of Dr.Kalam, an incident narrating the same story would make him realise that those foils were coverings of the components of a major technology project -Rocket Assisted Take-off Systems (RATO) that made India a missle p...

India defeated Maldives 3-1 to book their spot in the 2021 SAFF Championship Final here in Male, Maldives on Wednesday. Manvir Singh scored the opening goal, while Sunil Chhetri netted a second-half brace, to hand India the three points. Maldives striker Ali Ashfaq scored from the spot in the first half and was the only scorer for the hosts. With this win, India have now booked themselves a spot in the 2021 SAFF Championship Final, against Nepal on Saturday. At the start, India skipper Chhetri nearly created an opportunity with the pressure, as he won a tackle before Suresh picked up a loose ball and was fouled outside the box. The resulting free-kick, however, crashed into the Maldives wall and was soon cleared. Maldives talismanic striker Ali Ashfaq was also looking for opportunities of his own, and soon charged at the Indian penalty area, but was closed down by Rahul Bheke. Minutes later, Brandon spotted a run by Manvir through the channels, and he tried to dunk the ball over the Ma...