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India’s Shapath Bharadwaj (PTI Photo) India’s Shapath Bharadwaj booked his place in the men’s individual trap shooting final after surviving a tense three-way shoot-off at the Asian Games on Tuesday.Shapath finished joint-seventh in qualification with 117 points, forcing him into a shoot-off against Qatar’s Mohammed Al-Rumaihi and Kazakhstan’s Alisher Aisalbayev for the two remaining places…

Dharapuram: DMK MP Kanimozhi on Monday appealed to voters in Dharapuram not to vote for AIADMK, which was “incapable of safeguarding its own MLAs”, or TVK, which “poached MLAs” from other parties.Kanimozhi said there might be sympathy towards AIADMK because the party had lost its MLA elected from the constituency to TVK. “You may think…

Nihal Sarin replies to troll on social media NEW DELHI: Indian grandmaster Nihal Sarin didn’t need more than three words to shut down a troll on X. After India’s open team wrapped up their campaign at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand with a silver medal, Nihal posted a simple message of celebration, penning, “Happy…

Chennai: Madras high court on Monday has quashed the preventive detention of B T Arasakumar, the prime accused in the ₹100 crore private schools’ recognition scam, under the Goondas Act. He was originally arrested on charges of collecting money from private school managements promising to secure various statutory approvals and renewals during the DMK regime.A…