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Good Sports: INDIA’S TOP PADDLER JOINS JAPAN’S T-LEAGUE
April 2020 -
G. Sathiyan, India’s top table tennis player, recently joined the T-League, the first professional table tennis league in Japan. The league, founded in 2018, has four teams in the men’s division and four in the women’s
division.
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INDIA LAUNCHES WINTER GAMES
April 2020 -
India sends only a few athletes to the Winter Olympics, but there’s enough interest in snowboarding,skiing and other winter sports that the country recently launched its first-ever Winter Games.
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HONORABLE CAB DRIVER
April 2020 -
Rajbir Singh, a taxi driver in Roseville, California,was recently honored by his local policedepartment for thwarting a scammer who had targeted a 92-year-old woman.
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QUOTA of QUOTES
April 2020 -
Quotes of actor Anupam Kher, Sri Preston Kulkarni, Nidheya Suresh, Sushil Tyagi and Deepa Mehta.
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DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
April 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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Fun Time: DON’T BE AFRAID TO TRY SOMETHING NEW—WHATEVER YOUR AGE
April 2020 -
Young people have no trouble trying new things. My teen-aged kids, for example, are eager to try new devices, new software or new social media platforms. They’re eager to learn new games or sports. They’re eager to adopt new styles of clothing, new types of haircuts, and new ways of frowning at their parents.
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HELP FIGHT RACISM: HOST A $2,500 DINNER
April 2020 -
Saira Rao, a former Colorado congressional candidate, and Regina Jackson, an African-American who worked on Rao’s 2018 campaign, joined hands last year to co-found Race to Dinner, an organization that seeks to persuade white women to help fight racism and dismantle white supremacy
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THE VOICE OF APU STEPS AWAY
April 2020 -
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the heavily accented convenience store clerk on “The Simpsons,” has been a prominent figure on the animated TV series since 1990, but his days may be numbered—at least that’s what critics of the stereotypical character hope.
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Good Sports: INDIA’S FIRST FEMALE PRO SOCCER PLAYER
March 2020 -
Ngangom Bala Devi at 30 years of age has become the first Indian woman to play soccer professionally after signing an 18-month contract with Scottish club Rangers FC.
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Good Sports: BADMINTON COACH RECEIVES IOC HONOR
March 2020 -
India’s chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand received an honorable mention in the male category of the 2019 International Olympic Committee’s Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award.
