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| | Dipa Karmakar may have missed a historic medal for India, but her tale of exemplary grit has held the country in its grip over the past few days.<br>Now, she has been recommended for the country's highest sporting honour - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. <br>The Agartala girl became the first Indian gymnast to make it to the Olympic final (vault), and finished fourth in an elite field of eight. <br> The Agartala girl has been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna after her impressive performance.
Her coach, BS Nandi, is the frontrunner for the Dronacharya Award<br>Dipa's coach BS Nandy, the guiding light for the girl from Agartala, is the frontrunner for the Dronacharya Award. <br>Besides Dipa, pistol shooter Jitu Rai, who has had an outstanding couple of years winning a slew of medals at the top level, has also been recommended for this year's Khel Ratna. <br>Jitu, who competed in two events at Rio, reached the final of the 10m air pistol but finished eighth. <br>The awards committee, headed by High court judge (retd) SK Aggarwal, left the door open for any Olympic medallist from Rio while giving its recommendations to the Sports Ministry on Wednesday. <br>Badminton star PV Sindhu and a few wrestlers are still in the running, and anyone who wins a medal will be automatically recommended for the Khel Ratna.<br> Dipa Karmakar finished fourth at the Rio Games, after becoming the first Indian gymnast to make it to the Olympic final (vault)<br>The awards panel also finalised the names of 13 athletes and two para athletes for the Arjuna Award. <br>However, India's Test captain Virat Kohli, who was also in the fray for the Khel Ratna, may have to wait a little longer.
The only cricketer to be recommended for the awards is Ajinkya Rahane. <br>Steeplechaser Lalita Babar and archer Atanu Das, who both impressed at the Rio Olympics, have both been recommended for the Arjuna. <br> RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Lalita, who hails from a village in Satara, became only the second Indian after PT Usha to qualify for the final of a track event.
She made the cut with a new national record to her name. Atanu reached the quarter-finals in the men's individual event. <br>Among others, dragflicker VR Raghunath, Rani Rampal (hockey), Shiva Thapa (boxer), Gurpreet Singh, Apurvi Chandela (shooting), Vinesh Phogat, Amit Kumar (wrestling), Rajat Chauhan (archery), Sourav Kothari (billiards), and Saumyajit Ghosh (table tennis) were also recommended for Arjuna Awards. <br>Dipa has done the country proud in gymnastics, a sport where India had no history of success.
The 23-year-old performed the Produnova vault with ease. She was in third place in the final at one point, but American superstar Simone Biles stole the show to push the Indian into fourth.<br>Dipa had won bronze medals at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and 2015 Asian Championships.<br>
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| | Footage shows marines struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores.<br>The naval servicemen were seen using ropes to haul the animal back to the sea as the beach filled with onlookers witnessing the attempt.<br>The fin whale (Balaenoptera Physalus) had unfortunately died, so the marines decided to drag it to its watery grave.<br> Marines were filmed struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores<br>The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) in coordination with the Navy administration (semar group togel (https://taplink.cc/semargroup)), quickly arrived at the sombre scene at Nuevo Vallarta beach.<br>But they found that the stranded whale was already in advanced stages of decomposition, so it was not possible to extract tissues for analysis.<br> RELATED ARTICLES
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It is not known how the animal died.<br>Complying with the protocol of the Profepa, Semar, Civil Protection and non-governmental organisations, they dragged the specimen off with the help of a marine Secretariat vessel, moving the whale offshore to decompose naturally.<br> The servicemen were seen pulling the animal with ropes as the beach filled with onlookers to witness the attempt<br>As the beach is a site frequented by tourists and locals, the body was taken to a place where it will not cause public health problems.<br>Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight or expiring from suffocation when their blowholes are blocked with water.<br>Around 2,000 whales beach themselves across the world every year.<br>Mass beachings can also occur, when numerous whales become stranded at once.<br>One theory of why this happens is that one of the whales becomes lost and confused, and sends a honing signal leading others to the shore.<br> The body was moved offshore to decompose naturally in a place where it would not cause public health problems<br> |
