Medallists at Tokyo Olympics add sheen to Independence Day celebrations
The Hindu
As an athlete and a soldier, my heart is full of emotion when I see the national flag flying high. Jai Hind: Neeraj Chopra
The presence of 32 Olympic winners, including javelin thrower Subedar Neeraj Chopra at the 75th Independence Day celebration on Sunday at the Red Fort became a centre of much delight and inspiration for many of the attendees at the function. This year, in the Tokyo Olympics, India recorded its best-ever medal haul by bagging seven medals — one gold, two silver and four bronze. Apart from Gold Medalist Chopra, Olympic Silver Medalist Mirabai Chanu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Bronze Medallist P.V. Sindhu, Bajarang Punia and Lovlina Borgohain, and the hockey team were seated at the Red Fort rampart.
The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











