For Howrah-based Mukesh Gupta, spending time in water is an addiction. The self-taught swimmer holds the record for performing the highest number of non-stop river plunges in India. Mukesh works as a tea seller.
Category: RECORDS, INDIA (National)
** Panacea Biotec to manufacture up to 25 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine
** Rahul Rajasekharan jets off for Poland to represent India at Mister Supranational 2021
** Geological museum and lab for Dhanbad’s premiere college
Newly established facility at P.K. Roy Memorial will strengthen the infrastructure and fetch a better NAAC ratings.
A state-of-art Geological Museum and Microscopic Lab established in the Geology department of Dhanbad’s P.K. Roy Memorial College was inaugurated on Friday by Anjani Kumar Srivastava, vice chancellor of Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal.
** Delhi Metro’s Pink Line is now the single, longest corridor: Details here
A segment of Delhi Metro’s Pink Line was launched on Friday, making it the longest operational corridor of the network. The 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor or the Pink Line, which covers 38 stations, has now been fully linked. Passenger services on the line is slated to begin from 3pm onwards on Friday.
** Tokyo Olympics 2021 Live Updates: Wrestler Ravi Dahiya settles for silver, loses to Zavur Uguev of Russia in final
** India builds highest motorable road of the world in eastern Ladakh
BRO constructed a 52-km long black-topped road through Umlingla Pass, bettering the previous record of a road in Bolivia connecting to its volcano Uturuncu at 18,953 ft
** Hockey: India clinch Olympic bronze medal, edge past Germany in thrilling encounter
Simranjeet Singh scored a brace, while Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh were the other goal getters for the Men in Blue
** Tokyo Olympics: Assam celebrates Lovlina’s bronze
“There is nothing to feel disappointed about. We are very happy and satisfied with her achievement even if it is a bronze. We all wanted her to qualify and then wanted her to win a medal. After she achieved both, we wanted her to win the gold, which she too wanted badly. It was our collective dream. We need to celebrate her journey. And hope she does the golden turn in Paris 2024,” said Devojit Phukan, a family friend of the Borgohains who, many say, shared Lovlina’s inspiring story with the world —14 articles on Facebook — before her Olympic debut.
He is also the man who broke the news of Lovlina’s defeat to her parents like the earlier two bouts she had won because her parents do not watch her matches.
** Essar expands UK aviation footprint; begins ATF supply at Cardiff Airport
Essar Oil (UK) Limited, which owns and operates the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex at Ellesmere Port, the UK, announced on Wednesday that it has begun supplying jet fuel directly to airlines at the Cardiff Airport, with new deals having already been secured with various carriers that operate flights from the Wales facility.
Essar’s aviation fuel business has grown lately, with direct supply arrangements now in place with carriers at five major airports across the UK — Manchester, Birmingham, London Stansted, Leeds-Bradford and Cardiff.