Paris Olympics: Aman Sehrawat wins bronze for India in 57 kg wrestling
Paris, Aug 9: Wrestler Aman Sehrawat won the bronze medal, defeating Puerto Rico's Darian Cruz in the men's 57kg free-style category at the Paris Games here on Friday.
India now have five bronze medals and a silver, which javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra bagged on Thursday.
Aman won the bout 13-5 to keep the tradition of wrestlers returning home with a medal since 2008 Beijing Games, where Sushil Kumar had finished third.
On Thursday, Aman had lost to Japanese top-seed Rei Higuchi in the semifinal bout to set up a bronze-medal bout with Darian Cruz.
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Remarks against PM Modi: SC stays proceedings against Tharoor
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings before a trial court against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a defamation case lodged against him for his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and R Mahadevan issued notice to the Delhi government and the complainant in the case.
The notice is returnable in four weeks.
Tharoor has moved the top court against Delhi High Court order which refused to quash defamation proceedings against him on August 29.
The Congress leader had sought setting aside of the trial court's April 27, 2019 order summoning him as an accused in the criminal defamation complaint filed by Rajiv Babbar as also the November 2, 2018 complaint.
The criminal complaint was filed against Tharoor in the trial court by Babbar, who claimed that his religious sentiments were hurt by the Congress leader's statement.
In October 2018, Tharoor had claimed that an unnamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader had compared Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling".
The Congress leader had said it was an "extraordinarily striking metaphor".
