India record their best medal haul in Asian Games history
Jakarta : India finished their Asian Games 2018 campaign with 69 medals including 15 gold, 24 silver and 30 bronze at the mega event in Jakarta.
This has been India's best ever performance at the Asian Games, surpassing their previous best of 65 medals at Guangzhou in China in 2010. India had won 14 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze medals 8 years ago.
India also equalled their best ever tally of gold medals by winning 15 yellow metals, emulating their 1951 New Delhi performance. Interestingly this was also India's best in terms of silver medals won -- 24. In the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India had managed 19 silver medals.
In the Incheon Games 2014, India had won 57 medals (11 gold, 10 silver and 36 bronze).
courtesy : indiatoday.in
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Hoax targeting Delhi schools sends security searching for bomb, none found
New Delhi, Dec 16: More than 10 Delhi schools received bomb threat on Monday, police said, marking the fourth such instance of threat emails mentioning schools in past eight days in the national capital.
According to a Delhi Police source, the fire department, bomb detection team and dog squad searched the school premises but nothing suspicious was found.
On December 14, eight schools, including DPS RK Puram, had received the similar kind of mail, with the sender threatening to trigger blasts with "bomb vests".
The source said the contents of the letters is similar to the previous one and it is suspected to be sent by the same sender.
On December 13, about 30 schools received bomb threats over email, triggering a multi-agency search.
Before that, at least 44 schools received threat emails on December 9.
The Delhi Police Special Cell had registered an FIR in connection with threat mail to 44 schools and started the probe.
