Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPs funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after COVID-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.
Tokyo stocks ended higher on Friday with the benchmark Nikkei snapping a three-day losing streak as investors bought battered shares, while a weaker yen boosted exporters including automakers.
The TSE's trading schedule will be 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., with a one-hour lunch break, resuming from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a total of five and a half hours.
Colombian Nico Echavarria aiming for his second victory on the PGA TOUR finished with a tap-in eagle and carded 5-under 65 for a two-shot lead over Justin Thomas after the third round of the Zozo Championship.
An average tourist to Tokyo would find it difficult to believe the country’s population is shrinking after seeing the bustling crowds on the roads of Japan’s capital city.
In a bizarre move to address the country’s declining population, the Japanese government launched a new initiative to support single women moving out of Tokyo to rural areas to get married and thus fill the gap of a shrinking female population in the countryside.
“Nothing can compare with the feeling of winning an Olympic medal. This is the highest honour for a sportsman. The welcome we got after returning to India was amazing,” Mandeep said on the sidelines of the felicitation ceremony by the Odisha government.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off the Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki, just northeast of Tokyo, the country's weather agency said.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 on Friday struck Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa, south of Tokyo, local weather agency said.
The state has already constituted a nodal agency Guidance Tamil Nadu for bringing in investment. The Stalin government is now planning to open a desk of Guidance Tamil Nadu at Tokyo, Japan.
