Para athlete Nishad wins bronze, secures quota for Tokyo

Indian para athlete Nishad Kumar recorded a personal best of 2 metres to claim the bronze medal in men’s high jump T47 final at the Dubai World Para Athletics Championships and also secure his place in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Impeachment probe takes new twist

The next hearing is scheduled for Friday, featuring the US ambassador to Ukraine who Kent said was recalled by Trump after being subjected to a “smear campaign” by Giuliani. Eight more witnesses, including Sondland, are to appear next week, the second of several planned weeks of hearings. The investigation threatens to make Trump the third US president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998, although the Senate would need to convict him to remove him from office. Neither Johnson nor Clinton was convicted.

Ritu Phogat all set to make MMA debut

Indian wrestler Ritu Phogat is set to make her professional mixed martial arts debut, taking on Korea’s Nam Hee Kim in an atomweight contest at the Cadillac Arena in Beijing, China on 16 November.

Ajith to attend Kamal musical show

Actor Ajith, who stays away from public events and even promotional activities of his own films, is expected to attend musical tribute ‘Ungal Naan – 60 glorious years’ featuring Ilayaraja, organised to celebrate the six decades of Kamal Haasan in cinema on 17 November in Chennai.