India, who have never won an Olympic archery medal, will send a full six-member contingent to Paris to compete in all five events for the first time in 12 years
Here are five important points the International Court of Justice made while delivering its verdict and staying execution of former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav.
The former finance minister said that Pakistan "lost conclusively" before the world court and termed the sentencing by the military court to Jadhav as a "farcical processes".
'Ever since Dhoni bhai asked me to bowl in that New Zealand match, my life has completely changed'
Quite a few film folk turned up at the trailer launch of Dharmaveer 2: Mukkam Post Thane, that continues to tell the tale of the late Shiv Sena leader Anand Dighe.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and personnel of the civic body's fire brigade rescued the two persons and carrying out the extricate the others.
Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming lost his cool and lashed out at those questioning the thought process behind sending Kedar Jadhav ahead of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in their Indian Premier League match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, on Friday.
They warned that Islamabad wants to send a 'strong message' to India against isolating it on the world stage.
'Pursuant to the decision of the ICJ, Commander Kulbushan Jadhav has been informed of his rights under Article 36, Paragraph 1(b) of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations'
According to government sources, the international court will give its verdict around 3.30 pm on Thursday.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied India consular access to Jadhav on the ground that it was not applicable in cases related to spies.
Birthday boy Kedar Jadhav was not spared from a cake shower by his teammates.
Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad Gautam Bambawale on Wednesday met with Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua and sought the consular access to Jadhav.
Images from the 2024 Paralympics Opening Ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.
Cutting across party lines, all MPs slammed Pakistan for awarding death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
"Pakistan's story is solely based on rhetoric and not facts," said Harish Salve, who was representing India.
"We will decide a further course of action after receiving a detailed report from our Charge d' Affaires and determining the extent of conformity to the ICJ directives," said the MEA spokesperson.
Debutant Ankita Bhakat left behind seasoned campaigners like Deepika Kumar to emerge as the best-placed Indian archer at 11th in the women's individual recurve qualification.
Injuries continue to haunt all-rounder Kedar Jadhav as he is again down with a hamstring strain suffered while batting during India's successful chase in the final of the Asia Cup against Bangladesh in Dubai.
On Thursday, in a big win for India, the International Court of Justice stayed the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav. The ICJ instructed Pakistan to take all "necessary measures at its disposal" to ensure that Jadhav was not executed pending a final decision by it. Following the order, reactions poured in from all over celebrating the big win.
The bench noted that the special investigation team was formed as the local police did not probe the case properly, and "there was a strong outburst of the common man."
India questioned the functioning of Pakistan's notorious military courts.
It is quite likely that the Pakistanis are cleverly using the Jadhav card to derail the outcome of the JIT process.
The Pakistan Foreign Office said that it didn't wish to indulge in a meaningless battle of words" rejected India's baseless "allegations about attitude of authorities during Jadhav's meeting with his wife and mother.
"Under the law we cannot give consular access to Khubhushan who was involved in spying," Pakistan Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told reporters.
Check out Indian athletes' schedule for Thursday, August 1, Day 6 of competition
India secured one of their biggest triumphs in archery as the men's recurve team of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav stunned reigning Olympic champions South Korea to win the gold medal at the ongoing World Cup Stage 1 in Shanghai on Sunday.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 3, Monday, July 29, 2024:
The Lahore High Court Bar Association said on Friday that it will take action against any lawyer who extends his services to Jadhav.
The focus was on "team bonding" for the Indian archery team on Friday following their inspiring show in the qualification round of the Paris Games
Team India physio Patrick Farhart submitted Jadhav's fitness report, which cleared him. The fitness test was conducted on Thursday in Mumbai.
Jadhav, 47, was sentenced to death by the military court in April last year.
The plea involves 'egregious violation of Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963 by Pakistan.'
Had it not been for Pankaj Tripathi, who must have worked hard to get those Vajpayee intonations and mannerisms so perfectly well, Ravi Jadhav's flattering portrait of Vajpayee would have been more vacuous than what we get to see, observes Prasanna Zore.
There is also no information on what has happened to the appeal by Jadhav's mother.
Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court in April on charges of espionage and terrorism.
Manish Pandey and Axar Patel may come in for Jadhav and Yadav.
Jadhav was 'arrested' on March 3 last year by Pakistan security officials in Balochistan.
Pakistan's memorial will be in response to pleadings filed by India in the Hague-based ICJ on April 17.
Khawaja said Pakistan has been open and transparent throughout the meeting, offered in good faith.
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