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Hockey team finishes last at London Olympics. India wins six medals.
India had its best showing at an Olympics in London, winning six medals, including Saina Nehwal getting the bronze for badminton. Perhaps the Indian star of the Olympics is wrestler Sushil Kumar, below, who won the silver in the 66kg class, overcoming severe dehydration and the pressure of three matches in a day. Sushil won the bronze medal at the last Olympics.Yet overall India finished 46th in total medal tally and far behind the other emerging market powers China, Russia and Brazil, to which India is usually compared in the economic and political arena.
Indians won no gold. And, the men's hockey team finished last amongst the 12 teams at the Olympics, losing 2-3 to South Africa and thus being pushed to the bottom.As Shashank Bengali, a reporter for the McClatchy Newspapers, noted: the head coach didn't show for the postgame news conference, sending in his place an assistant, Mohammed Riaz Nabhi, who said, "We are continuously losing games, so the morale is totally down. "http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/08/3751939/for-india-the-best-news-may-be.html
For over thirty years there has been talk of the need for more astro-turf fields for Indians to practice. But few astro-turf fields have been set up for hockey in India.
Ajay Maken, India's Minister of Sports, said that India should win at least 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics. That Olympics is only eight years away. Is there much an effort going on in India at the moment to get to the goal of 25 medals? Or will the money and media attention on cricket continue to dry out opportunities for talented Indians in other of a chance to win at future Olympics?
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/india-will-win-25-medals-in-2020-ajay-maken/281626-73.html
Ashoke Sen wins $3 million prize for Physics Research
Ashoke Sen, of Harish-Chandra Research Institute, wins $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize. All the more remarkable since the Institute is based in Allahabad and not as well known as the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.
As the BBC notes in a report, Ashoke Sen is a shy, reclusive Indian particle physicist working from a non-descript laboratory. For the BBC interview see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19160625
Indian Mission to Mars to take off in November 2013. Cost $90 Million.
The news headline read like a joke. But no, a spacecraft to orbit Mars will be launched by India in November 2013. There is strong grounds to argue that the $90 million to be spent on this mission could be better used in India, including for upgrading science and technology education. But according U.R. Rao, the former head of the Indian Space Research Organization, and head of a government science advisory board, the plan is for India to be ready when its time to colonize the red planet in perhaps 500 years. Rao made this comment in an interview with The Deccan Chronicle, see link:http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/op-ed/%E2%80%98we-are-planning-send-our-first-orbiter-mars-2013%E2%80%99-548
Swaminarayan Temple in New Jersey weighs priest against 175 pounds of platinum
Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa, the head priest of the Shree Swaminarayan Temple in Secaucus NJ, was wieghed against over 175 pounds of pure platinum. According to the Jersey Journal, the platinum was mined in Africa and brought to the Temple for the ceremonial weighing called a "Platinum Tula."
http://photos.nj.com/4505/gallery/ceremonial_weighing_at_shree_swaminaravan_temple/index.html
Sahara Group pays $570 million for 75% stake in New York's Plaza Hotel.
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/indian-conglomerate-buys-new-yorks-plaza-hotel/Holi Celebrated in Berlin with color, music and food.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/2012/07/30/by-all-that-is-holi-in-berlin
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