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Olympics 2020: Table Tennis round 3
Tokyo: India’s Manika Batra during her Summer Olympics 2020 table tennis round 3 match against Austria’s Sofia Polcanova, in Tokyo, Monday, July 26, 2021. Batra lost 0-4. (PTI Photo/Gurinder Osan) Tokyo: India’s…
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CM KCR extends best wishes to Indian athletes for Tokyo Olympics
Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday has conveyed best wishes to Indian sports persons participating in the 32nd Olympics in Tokyo, starting from July 23. In a statement, CM…
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In Pics: Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics
Tokyo: Naomi Osaka, of Japan, practices for the women’s tennis competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Tokyo. AP/PTI Tokyo : Members of the India women’s field hockey…
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Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke
Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko…
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Covid is a test and world is failing: WHO chief
Tokyo: As Japan goes ahead with Olympics 2021, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said that the coronavirus pandemic is a test in which the world is…
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China threatens to nuke Japan over possible Taiwan intervention
Beijing: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aired a video in which it threatened Japan with a nuclear response and “full-scale war” if it interfered in China’s handling of Taiwan. The video, which…
- Technology
Japan-based Fujitsu unveils 2 laptops in India
Bengaluru: Japanese PC maker Fujitsu on Tuesday announced its comeback in the consumer PC business in India with the launch of two new laptops — UH-X and UH-X 2in1 — starting price Rs…
- Technology
Japan transfers 319 TB/s, setting Internet speed record
Tokyo: A team of researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has broken the Internet speed record with a stunning 319 terabits per second (TB/s). That’s double the…
- World
5.5-magnitude quake jolts Japan
Tokyo: An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale on Friday struck off the Hachijojima Islands in Japan. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor occurred at around 1.20 p.m., with…
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Tokyo Olympics: Organisers pledge for net-zero carbon emissions
Tokyo: Organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have gone for net-zero carbon emissions as one of the main concerns in this year’s showpiece event is to mitigate the impacts of high city…
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Japan to begin accepting applications for vaccination passports from July 26
Tokyo: Japan will start accepting applications for vaccination passports from July 26 for people who have been fully inoculated against COVID-19 to travel internationally, the top government spokesman said Sunday. Whether to…
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Japan mudslide: Operation to search for missing people continues
Tokyo: Rescue operation continued on Sunday to search for 20 people who went missing following a large mudslide in southwest Tokyo. Around 700 police and Self-Defense Forces personnel, as well as firefighters,…
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Japan: Landslide leaves 20 people missing
Tokyo: About 20 people went missing and at least 10 houses were destroyed on Saturday in a large mudslide triggered by torrential rain in southwest of Tokyo in central Japan, local authorities said.…
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At least 19 missing as mudslide west of Tokyo hits houses
Tokyo: A powerful mudslide carrying a deluge of black water and debris crashed into rows of houses in a town west of Tokyo following heavy rains on Saturday, leaving at least 19…
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Indo-Japan friendship gets deeper during Covid: PM Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pointed towards the strengthening of special strategic and global partnership with Japan. Informing about the Japan plus mechanism in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the…
