Wion Brave News

Khajan Singh Tokas was India’s first swimmer to have won a medal in the Asian Games. His 200m butterfly silver at the Seoul Asian Games in 1986 was a benchmark. The achievement made swimming a popular competition. Khajan Singh Tokas is currently working with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and all of his achievements in swimming still stand fresh in the minds of sports enthusiasts of the country. Children thronged pools across the country to emulate Khajan Singh Tokas but none has shown the talent to achieve similar feats. It pains him that swimming has not grown. “Facilities have improved. Kids have better access to pools but we are not producing champions. The reasons are many but lack of talent is not the one,” he says, relaxing in his house at Vasant Kunj. Khajan Singh swam to keep his father’s memory alive. He was nearly drowned once before elder brother Balkishan pulled him out of the pond in Delhi’s Munirka area. It was terrifying but it was inspiring too. Khajan S...

The family had their last dinner at 8.45pm on Saturday. Ahmed al-Nairab, 11, and his five-year-old brother Momen then asked their father, Mohammed, to take them to the small grocery store next to their house in Jabalia Camp , northern Gaza. At the shop they bought crisps and gum. Then Mohammed al-Nairab saw a huge ball of fire and heard a massive explosion.  “I couldn’t see anything. When the smoke started to disappear, I found Momen lying on the ground, covered with blood,” the 38-year-old father told Middle East Eye. “I bore him quickly in my arms and started running to find a car or ambulance. After many metres, I found Ahmed also lying on the ground. "Someone held Ahmed. We ran together for almost 200 metres. Then we found a car full of injured people, whose trunk was open and contained two or three bodies, heading to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia. We put Ahmed and Momen in the trunk. I didn't know if they were dead or injured," he said.  Read More : https://www...

An alleged member of an  Islamic State  (IS) execution cell dubbed "the Beatles" has been arrested at Luton Airport and charged with terrorism offences after being deported late on Wednesday from  Turkey . Aine Davis  was released from a maximum-security prison in Ankara where he had served a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for being an IS member. Middle East Eye first  reported  in late June that Davis was scheduled to be deported to the UK this summer. Davis, who is originally from London, will appear in court on Thursday morning, Reuters reported. "Mr Davis, 38, has been charged with terrorism offences and possession of a firearm for a purpose connected with terrorism," the Crown Prosecution Service said. Read More :  www.middleeasteye.net/news/aine-davis-islamic-state-beatles-member-deported-uk-turkey

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today celebrated Raksha Bandhan at his residence with the young daughters of his staff members tying rakhi on his hand to mark the occasion. Those who participated in this special Raksha Bandhan celebration at the PM's house included the daughters of sweepers, peons, gardeners, drivers and others working at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Read More : https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/watch-daughters-of-staff-members-at-pms-office-tie-him-rakhi-3245304#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories

  Pyongyang:  Kim Jong Un's sister revealed that the North Korean leader suffered from a "high fever" during a recent Covid outbreak, as she vowed to "eradicate" South Korean authorities if they continued to tolerate propaganda leaflets the regime blames for spreading the virus. Repeating dubious claims that the pamphlets caused the recent Covid outbreak in the north, Kim Yo Jong blamed "South Korean puppets" for sending "dirty objects" across the border in leaflets carried by balloons, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday. The revelation of her brother's illness marked an unusual admission for a regime that rarely comments on the leader's health -- and then only to show that he shares the struggles of the people. Kim Yo Jong said in a speech that the North Korean leader was "seriously ill" during his bout with fever, according to KCNA. Still, she added that her brother "could not lie down ...

There's a new way to cope with the guilt of firing your employees -- a LinkedIn post letting your network know you feel miserable about it. Braden Wallake, the chief executive officer of a Columbus, Ohio-based marketing agency called HyperSocial, wrote a guilt-filled post Tuesday about laying off employees that concluded with a teary-eyed selfie. After the post went viral, he declared himself “the crying CEO.” Wallake's  original post  has more than 30,000 likes and 5,300 comments. In it, he said he loves all of his employees, acknowledged how his own decisions led to the dismissals and said it was the “hardest thing” he has ever had to do. “Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way” wrote Wallake, 32. “But I'm not.” Read More : https://www.ndtv.com/business/the-crying-ceo-says-he-loves-his-employees-even-those-he-laid-off-3245168#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories

A horrific video has emerged on Twitter from Mayurbhanj in Odisha, which shows a man with disability being tortured by two people. The clip shows one of the men with a stick forcing the victim to lick the feet of another person. The video has shocked Twitter users, with many asking for strict action against the two men. The police said the incident took place at a drug de-addiction centre and the two men have been arrested. The video shows the man with disability sitting on the ground and crying after being asked to lick the feet of a person. Another man in a red vest is roaming around with a stick in his hand. He pleads to the man to spare him, but he threatens the victim of dire consequences if he refuses to follow the orders. Meanwhile, the other man is seen with his bare feet close to the victim's face. Helpless, the victim finally licks the feet of the person wearing a yellow t-shirt. After the demeaning act, he tries to clean his tongue but is again threatened by the pers...

Two terrorists who tried to breach an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri were gunned down by Indian Army on Thursday. Three army personnel also lost their lives in the operation. An encounter broke out after terrorists attempted a suicide attack on an Army company operating base. Five jawans were also injured in the exchange of fire. The operation has now ended, the Indian Army confirmed. "One Officer is also among the injured Army personnel in the terrorist attack and has been rushed for medical treatment. 16 Corps Commander Lt Gen Manjinder Singh is constantly monitoring the situation on the ground. The area is being sanitised," Indian Army officials said. Mukesh Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone was quoted by ANI as saying, "Someone tried to cross the fence of the Army camp at Pargal in Darhal area of Rajouri. Exchange of fire took place. Additional parties despatched for the location, 6 km from Darhal PS. Two terrorists killed...

At least eight Russian warplanes appear to have been damaged or destroyed in the recent attack on Saky airbase in Crimea, according to newly released satellite images, in contrast to Russian claims that none were damaged. On Wednesday Ukraine’s air force said at least nine Russian aircraft were destroyed on the ground following Tuesday’s  dramatic explosions at the Saky airbase , which Russia said killed one, wounded 14 and damaged dozens of nearby houses. Kyiv has so far officially denied responsibility for the attack, with an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suggesting partisans might have been involved. To Know More : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/11/russian-warplanes-destroyed-in-crimea-saky-airbase-attack-satellite-images-show

 RAMALLAH: Palestinian leaders have launched a new diplomatic drive to obtain full membership of the UN. The campaign will culminate with a landmark speech by President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 23, in which he will make the case for enhanced status. “In the absence of a political path and hope for the Palestinians to end the occupation, they have no choice but to resort to the UN to enhance the status of Palestine as a state and the Palestinians as a people on their land under occupation,” Palestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem told Arab News on Wednesday. The UN granted Palestine non-member observer state status at a historic vote in the General Assembly in November 2012, when 138 countries voted in favor, 9 opposed it, and 41 abstained. The resolution included “the hope that the Security Council will consider positively” accepting the request for full membership. Abbas submitted this in September 2011, but it fell in the Security Cou...

WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department said Wednesday it had uncovered an Iranian plot to kill former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton, and announced charges against a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Justice Department said 45-year-old Shahram Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, had offered to pay an individual in the US $300,000 to kill Bolton, the former US ambassador to the UN. The Justice Department said that plan was likely set in retaliation for the US killing of top Guard commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020. Prosecutors say the scheme unfolded more than a year after Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force and an architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East, was killed in a targeted airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport in January 2020. After the strike, Bolton, who by then had left his White House post, tweeted, “Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran.” Read...

Sanamacha Thingbaijam Chanu , Indian Weightlifter Sanamacha Thingbaijam Chanu (born 2 October 1978) is an Indian weightlifter who competed in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She had also won three golds at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and was a part of the core team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games at New Delhi. India is considered one of the weightlifting powerhouses in the Commonwealth, having won 93 medals, including 33 gold since 1966 when they took part for the first time. Sanamacha Chanu always wanted to change weightlifting from a men dominated career and inspire other girls and women to follow their passion in weightlifting. She wanted to become an idol for women in India interested in weightlifting and other sports to come forward and achieve their dream. Sanamacha Thingbaijam Chanu worked so hard to make her dreams come true. She had left her village and went to Patiala, Punjab to pursue her dreams. Being a...

  New Delhi:  US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan late on Tuesday, defying warnings from China that have heightened tensions between the two countries. Before Pelosi's arrival, thousands of Taiwanese were seen waiting to welcome her. Videos and shots on social media show people cheering for Pelosi's jet as it flies overhead before landing Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. Hundreds of Taiwanese were also seen outside the airport carrying placards with "Welcome Pelosi" written on them. Pelosi is the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years.  Read More : https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/watch-taiwanese-cheer-as-nancy-pelosis-jet-flies-overhead-3219302

  A species of land iguanas that disappeared more than a century ago from one of Galapagos Islands, is reproducing naturally after being reintroduced there, a report in Newsweek said. A province of Ecuador, the islands had sufficient presence of iguanas with the early 20th century but they disappeared later. They were reintroduced at the Santiago Island in 2019 to restore the natural ecosystem there, the outlet further said quoting Ecuador's environment ministry. The iguanas have been listed as vulnerable species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The Galapagos Islands are a Natural World Heritage site and located about 1,000 kilometres off the coast of Ecuador. They are home to a distinctive flora and fauna. The disappearance of the Conolophus Subcristatus species of iguanas was reported by the California Academy of Sciences, after an expedition from 1903 to 1906. In an effort to revive them, the Galapagos National P...

  New Delhi:  Kareena Kapoor, who shot for  Laal Singh Chaddha  during her pregnancy, talked about her experience in an interview with  India Today . The actress revealed that she was five-and-a-half months pregnant during the film's shoot and told India Today: "I am still a working actor, I worked throughout my pregnancies and people who have a problem with it, don't take me. But the fact is that I've shot with Aamir even when I was five and a half months pregnant." Speaking of her sister-in-law Alia Bhatt , Kareena said, "Alia is still pregnant and working and continues to work. So, it's up to the person to break boundaries and take up the challenge." Alia is married to Kareena's cousin Ranbir Kapoor. Alia announced her pregnancy in June this year. Earlier,  Kareena Kapoor  shared a post, in which she wrote why the project is extra special for her. She wrote in her caption: "A pandemic, two lockdowns, and a baby later... one of my most sp...

  New Delhi:  Varun Dhawan  has been quite busy lately. After the promotions of  JugJugg Jeeyo,  Varun jumped straight on to the sets of  Bawaal . Now after wrapping up  Bawaal  with Janhvi Kapoor, the actor has returned home after 45 days. And there is no one happier to have him back home than his pet dog, Joey. For this, we have proof. The actor has shared a clip on Instagram in which Joey is seen jumping and licking Varun's face in sheer excitement. Along with the clip, Varun wrote, “Back home after 45 days and couldn't be happier to see my boy, Joey. The last 3 months I have had literally no time to spend or explain to Joey why I was busy promoting  JJJ  and wrapping  Bawaal ; this has to be the greatest reward.” Actress Esha Gupta spoke for all of us when she replied saying, “Awwlee” with a heart emoticon. Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar and actress Diana Penty also dropped heart emojis, in the comment section. Actor Varun Dhawan lo...

 A video of a man playing drum at a religious programme - also known as ' Jagrata ' - has caught the attention of the popular Canadian Pop Singer Justin Bieber. The singer posted the man's video on his Instagram story on Monday. In the now-viral video, the man stole the show at the programme with his unique way of playing the drums. The clip was originally posted on Instagram by a user named Rangile Haryanvi on July 8. During the  'Jagrata ', the man appears to be so interested that he jumps repeatedly while playing the drums before preparing the devotees for a chorus. Justin Bieber was equally interested in the video that has gone viral online. The singer admired the man's approach greatly and asked one of his drummer pals to imitate it on stage at one of his concerts. While sharing the viral video in his Instagram story, he wrote, "@stixxtaylor, I am expecting you to do this next show" and mentioned artist named Devon Taylor. Since being...

England's Sarah Davies, who won a weightlifting gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this week, left the world of beauty contests to embark on an athletic journey. Davies won titles like Miss West Yorkshire and Miss Leeds. She also did weightlifting alongside pageants. She told  The Telegraph  in an interview that pageants became "more of a hobby" for her when she began succeeding in  weightlifting . Davies said he also continued to participating in pageants to promote body positivity. In school, she had been bullied for her "muscly" appearance. “I was actually happier in my body than I’d ever been, yet I was more muscly than I’d ever been and that was the thing I used to be insecure about,” she told The Telegraph. “That’s why I carried on doing the pageantry stuff because it put me out there as a role model to another 12-year-old girl somewhere in the world.” Read More : https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/sports-trends/commonwealth...

 While climate changes owing to the depleting environmental conditions has plagued humanity, the effect has tricked down to groundwater-the major water supply source to many residents of the country.  The Narendra Modi led NDA government has informed the Rajya Sabha that the ground water is fast depleting.  The figures presented by the  Indian government  poses a huge red flag to the future of drinking water int he country. The figures not only speak of the future of drinking water in India, it also says that we might have been drinking ‘poisonous’ water for a long time now. The data presented says that most of the districts, of almost all the states, of the country were found with excess amounts of toxic metals in the groundwater. India had also been witness to severe water shortage during the months of heatwave that covered the northern parts of the country in May.  To Know More : https://www.livemint.com/news/india/80-indians-likely-drinking-pois...

  US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assured Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen of continued support during a visit to Taipei that has  infuriated  China. Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own, has announced “targeted military operations” and  live fire drills  around the island in response. Tsai slammed the drills as “unnecessary”, while Japan has expressed concern saying the areas to be used for the exercises overlap with its exclusive economic zone.

 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet has announced the establishment of the Saudi Investment Marketing Authority as the Kingdom plans to inject more than SR12 trillion of investments in the economy by 2030. It will also hold the responsibility of marketing and attracting investments to the Kingdom through preparing plans and programs, locally and internationally, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The new authority aims to upgrade all business and services related to investment marketing and achieve cooperation between entities, according to the Ministry of Investment’s statement.  Saudi Arabia’s Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih wrote on Twitter: “The Saudi Investment Marketing Authority will be a strong driver for the investment system, in accordance with the National Investment Strategy that aims to lure and develop national and foreign investments.” Commenting on the creation of the authority, Mohammed Alsuwayed, former head of vision realization...

 JEDDAH: The US State Department has approved the potential sale of Patriot missiles and related equipment to Saudi Arabia in a deal valued at up to $3.05 billion, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The potential sale of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system missiles, THAAD fire control and communication stations, and related equipment to the UAE in a deal valued at up to $2.25 billion, has also been approved, the Pentagon added. In a joint communique issued after US President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia last month, it was reiterated that the “US-Saudi partnership has been a cornerstone of regional security over decades, and affirmed that the two countries share a vision of a more secure, stable, and prosperous region, interconnected with the world.” “The proposed sale will improve the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capability to meet current and future threats by replenishing its dwindling stock of PATRIOT GEM-T missiles,” the State Department said in its notice informing...