** Sports News | Inspiring Story of India’s First Specially-abled IAS Officer LY Suhas Who Will Represent the Country in Paralympics

Noida District Magistrate and para-badminton player Suhas L Yathiraj will become the first civil servant from the country to represent India in the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics.

** Can You Guess the Former India Fast Bowler Who is Now a Astrophysicist? Details Inside

Former India fast bowler Aavishkar Salvi, who made his international debut against Bangladesh is possibly the most educated Indian cricketer ever.

 The 39-year-old Mumbai-born cricketer has now completed his PhD in Astrophysics

** American Centre Chennai has special corner dedicated to city historian Muthiah

This comes after the US Consulate General launched its Madras Week celebrations with a virtual tour titled ‘America in Chennai — Sites, Streets, Structures’.

According to Prof. Suresh Sethuraman: “Chennai boasts of several sites, streets, and structures that have strong ‘America’ connections – the St. Mary’s church within Fort St. George where Elihu Yale of Yale University fame got married in 1680, the Ice House on Kamarajar Salai where ice from Massachusetts was stored in the 19th century, the YMCA building opposite the Madras High Court built with financial aid from the US in 1900, to name only a few.

** OM Nambiar, the coach who unearthed India’s Golden girl PT Usha, no more

Before Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold for India in athletics at the Tokyo Games, one of the  athletes who agonisingly came close to a medal in track and field events at the Olympics was ‘Golden Girl’ PT Usha. 

Considered one of the greatest athletes that the country has produced, Usha had missed the bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Games by one-hundredth of a second.

** Mumbai: Dr Grace Pinto presented ‘Shiksha Bhushan’ award

The Hindi Academy hosted the Mathrubhumi Bhushan award-giving ceremony at the Jal Bhushan Convention Center in the governors official headquarters here on Wednesday at Malabar Hill.

Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari presented the awards to the veterans of the armed forces in various fields, including the Mathrubhumi Bhushan, Shiksha Bhushan, Sahitya Bhushan and the Social Service Bhushan.

** Six Army men get Shaurya Chakra for anti-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir

Recipients of the prestigious award are Major Arun Kumar Pandey, Major Ravi Kumar Chaudhary, Capt. Ashutosh Kumar (posthumously), Capt. Vikas Khatri, Rifleman Mukesh Kumar and Sepoy Neeraj Ahlawat.