A 110-metre hurdles gold medal won in ... Clust of New York for the Olympiad. The games, the first held outside Europe after the Athens and Paris games that started the modern Olympic movement, were a ...

She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) from FIDE and has a distinguished career in chess. “Her gold medal win at the 45th Chess Olympiad marked India’s ...

or get selected for the International Biology Olympiad (IBO), let alone win a medal for the country, said the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE). This year, however, for the first time, ...

India is sent its largest-ever contingent of 126 athletes in Tokyo where Neeraj Chopra became the first track and field athlete from the country to win a gold medal ... the 24th Olympiad were held in ...

During the Chess Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary in September, the Indian contingent made history when both men's and women's teams secured gold medals for the first time ever. She was part of ...

Controversial Open Society Foundations founder George Soros and 18 others are recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

Ralph Lauren, the legendary American designer whose preppy threads have become synonymous with East Coast chic, made history when he received the Presidential Medal ... his first full men's ...

In a separate Oval Office ceremony closed to the news media, he awarded the Medal of Valor to eight first responders who put their own lives at risk to save others. These are heroes of different ...