2024 delivered unforgettable moments that epitomised triumph, passion, and sheer brilliance across the globe.
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"Like we have tiger as a national animal and peacock as a national bird, we have declared dolphins as a national aquatic animal as it represents the health of the rivers, particularly Ganga in the country," Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh told media persons in New Delhi.
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Tom Daley and Noah Williams claimed a silver medal in a thrilling men's synchronized 10-meter platform final at the Paris Olympics.
Karnataka clinched both the men's and women's team titles in the 63rd Senior National Aquatic Championships at the LNCPE pool near Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, a day when 26 existing records were erased.
Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani began China's bid to capture all eight women's Olympic diving golds by winning the synchronised 3-metre springboard event on Saturday.
Karnataka swimmer Aaron Agnel D'Souza on Sunday bettered his personal national record in the 100m freestyle event in the 65th Senior National Aquatics Championships which drew to a close in Ranchi on Sunday.
Rehan Poncha helped Karnataka to retain the top position with 18 gold medals on the penultimate day of the 65th Senior National Aquatic Championship by winning his fifth gold.
Richa Mishra rewrote two of her national records as she won three gold medals, while Olympics qualifier Sandeep Sejwal set another national record on the second day of the 65th Senior National Aquatic Championships in Ranchi on Thursday.
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China delivered their best performance at a Summer Olympics since the 2008 Games on home soil
The cost of the 2012 Olympic aquatics centre has risen, but savings made elsewhere could see a final overall budget underspend of up to 500 million pounds ($807.9 million), government figures showed on Tuesday.
Two South Korean government officials were handed suspended six-month prison sentences on Friday after they were found guilty of forging documents for southern city Gwangju's successful bid to host the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
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Four national records were broken as Karnataka's Aaron Agnel D'Souza clinched three gold medals and ace swimmer Richa Mishra added one, taking her tally to four, in the 65th Senior National Aquatic Championships in Ranchi, on Friday.
Heavy machinery was deployed to divert the flow of the water in the affected streams towards fields, an official told PTI.
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The DNA tests would be conducted as the last option in case the body parts of the Awami League MP could not be found, an officer of the Dhaka police visiting Kolkata as part of the investigation said.
Prime Minister Narendra D Modi visited the Science City in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
A group of British MPs have called on England's FA to ban transgender players from participating in women's soccer.
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With over 3,000 species of plants, 26 interconnected lakes and the 250-year-old Great Banyan Tree -- the largest in the world -- the Indian Botanic Garden is a veritable treasure, discovers Payal Singh Mohanka.
Sri Lanka has decided to impose a one-year moratorium in allowing foreign vessels to conduct research in the island nation's territorial waters, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry has said, amidst frequent docking requests from Chinese surveillance ships.
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Politics infused the event in Doha where Belarusian swimmers competed as neutrals due to restrictions imposed on their athletes, and Russia's, stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- which Moscow called a "special military operation".
Ganguly surpassed Aryan Nehra's timing of 4:27:62 which he had set at the Nationals last month.
In shooting, India have added Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, while in athletics, Amlan Borgohain, Preeti and Prachi have been added to the squad.
Paris is, and will continue to be, dogged by the usual gripes about staging the greatest show on earth.
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Last year's open-water swim competitions took place at the French capital's Parc de la Villette in northern Paris.
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