Day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games began with a solemn start for Dutee Chand failing to qualify for the women's 200m semi-finals. Rani Rampal and her hockey team have brought honour to the country.
India plans to test a combination of its own Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, and a prospective intranasal vaccine developed by US researchers, in the hopes of boosting the two vaccines' protective effectiveness against the virus.
Arup Patnaik, Convenor of Odisha-Mo Parivar mourned the death of 6 Odia workers in a fire accident at a shrimp farm in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
After 49 years, Team India entered the Semifinals of Men's Hockey, raising medal hopes at Olympics. The last time India had won an Olympics medal was at Moscow in 1980 when they struck the Gold.