IT'S CHAI TIME
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August 2020 -
Pepperdine University’s Sahith Theegala has emerged the undisputed top college golfer in America, having swept the three most prestigious player-of-the-year awards in collegiate golf.
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August 2020 -
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has ranked Amit Panghal as the world’s No. 1 boxer in the 52kg category.
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August 2020 -
They haven’t been able to compete during the Covid-19 lockdown, but a few table tennis players in India have been busy raising money for coaches, trainers, and others whose livelihoods have been interrupted.
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August 2020 -
Quotes by Writer-turned-politician Nikil Saval,Shenika Shah, who graduated from medical
school this year and has been promoted from a second lieutenant to a captain in the U.S. Army, Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, D.J. Patil, head of technology at Devoted Health and former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, Second Lieutenant Anmol Narang, who recently became the first observant Sikh to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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August 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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August 2020 -
Coronavirus-related restrictions have kept many people from meeting face-to-face with friends and neighbors. This has helped curb the spreading of viruses, not to mention rumors and gossip. But experts say it’s important for us—for our mental well- being—to keep the conversations going in whatever way is possible. That’s what I’ve been trying to do. Just the other day, while sitting in my kitchen, I had a long conversation with a couple of ants.
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August 2020 -
Can marriages survive when spouses disagree on politics? Indeed they can, as we’re witnessing in America with the high-profile example of Kellyanne Conway and George T. Conway III.
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August 2020 -
Rizvi, professor of food science at Cornell University, and Michael E. Wagner, who earned a Ph.D. from Cornell in 2015, were recently awarded a patent for a process that uses pressurized carbon dioxide to make instant ice cream.
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July 2020 -
Indian chess prodigy Nihal Sarin recently challenged world chess champion Magnus Carlsen to a series of online chess shootouts. Carlsen beat the youngster in one-minute bullet games but lost to him in a three-minute blitz game.
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July 2020 -
Jyoti Kumari, a 15-year-old girl from Bihar, has caught the eye of the Cycling Federation of India (CFI). Jyoti recently rode a bicycle from the outskirts of New Delhi to her village in Darbhanga, Bihar, carrying her injured father behind her.
