Danuri – a portmanteau of the Korean words for “Moon” and “enjoy” – was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX. It aims to reach the Moon by mid-December. “South Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri left for space at 8.08am on August 5, 2022,”...
Backed by her daily-wager father who shared her dream, a para-canoer who refused to marry because she was in love with sports despite being paralysed in both legs, won for India its first medal at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Halifax, Canada, on Thursday.
Dedicated to the Union government’s ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ initiative, the Fit@50+ Women’s Trans Himalayan expedition has successfully completed its 140 days of expedition.
Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain, who had created an uproar on Twitter after her personal coach Sandhya Gurung was denied the Games accreditation to stay with her at the athletes village, crashed out of the Birmingham CWG on Thursday night after losing to Wales’ Rosie Eccles in the quarterfinals of the women’s boxing light middleweight...
A writer & an unsung freedom fighter
Allie Tarantino, now a 5th grade teacher in Connecticut, held on to the Zuckerberg baseball card, not knowing when he filed it away in his basement that the kid would someday become a household name and would be responsible for one of the biggest technological advancements — or time wasters — in social networking.
Reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu of Britain advanced to the quarter-finals of the ATP and WTA Washington Open, refusing to wilt Thursday after a marathon match in sweltering heat.