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‘Every jump was a war’: Tales of battles fought by podium finishers in high jump at Tokyo Paralympics 2020
Amit Kamath •Cancer. A horrific childhood accident. Polio. Crippling poverty. Loneliness. Anxiety attacks. A last-minute meniscus injury. A COVID scare and training disruption. These are just some battles fought by the medal-winning trio in the high jump event at Tokyo 2020.
Tokyo Paralympics: Mariyappan Thangavelu, Sharad Kumar's high jump medals propel India to double digits
•India have so far won two gold, five silver and three bronze medals in the ongoing Paralympics. Athletics has once again been the country's happy hunting ground with one gold, four silver and two bronze so far.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Double Asian Para Games high jump champion Sharad Kumar donates Rs 1 lakh to PM's relief fund
•Kumar won a gold in the high jump T42 category in the 2014 Asian Para Games before climbing the top of the podium again in 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia in T42/63 category. He is also a 2017 IPC World Championships silver medallist.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju felicitates World Para Athletics Championships medal winners with cash awards
•Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju felicitated the medal-winning Indian para-athletes with cash awards for their best-ever performance at the recently-concluded World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai
Asian Para Games: Sharad Kumar's record-breaking gold helps India make clean sweep in men's T42/63 high-jump
•High jumper Sharad Kumar broke the Asian and Games records to bag gold in the T42/63 category as India picked up all three medals on offer in the event.
Ex-NIA chief handling Kashmir terror-funding case, appointed CVC head: All you need to know about ex-Haryana top cop
Fp Staff •Former National Investigation Agency (NIA) chief Sharad Kumar was appointed as the new vigilance commissioner of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on Sunday
Former NIA chief Sharad Kumar appointed as one of the two vigilance commissioners in CVC
•Former NIA chief Sharad Kumar was on Sunday appointed the vigilance commissioner in the probity watchdog CVC
Senior IPS officer YC Modi, who probed Gujarat riots cases, takes over as new NIA chief
Ians •Senior IPS officer YC Modi, who was part of a Supreme Court-appointed team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, took over as NIA chief
Rajnath Singh says Jammu and Kashmir security forces kill five to six terrorists everyday
•Five to six terrorists are killed by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir everyday, home minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.
Malegaon blast case: Congress slams BJP govt for 'protecting all RSS-connected accused' after Shrikant Purohit's bail
•The Congress accused the BJP government of "protecting" all the accused "connected to the RSS" after the SC granted bail to 2008 Malegaon serial blasts case accused Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit.