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When Khajan Singh Tokas ended India’s 35-year wait in swimming at 1986 Asian Games

When Khajan Singh Tokas ended India’s 35-year wait in swimming at 1986 Asian Games

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When Khajan Singh Tokas stepped onto the starting block for the men’s 200m butterfly at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games, he carried the weight of a 35-year wait. Just over two minutes later he had rewritten Indian swimming history. For a brief moment, the arena seemed to fall away. He became the first Indian swimmer since 1951 and seventh overall to make the podium. “I remember after winning the medal I was so happy. After a gap of 35 years, I got a medal for India, a silver medal,” Khajan Singh told The Bridge on Wednesday. Putting his nostalgia into words, Khajan goes back to the quiet confidence that began building long before the final dive. A strong swim in the heats had already given him the confidence that a medal was possible. “When I swam my heat in the morning and qualified for lane 5, I was very sure in the evening that a medal was there. But whether it is gold, silver, or bronze that depends on the final swim,” the now 62-year-old …

Vijay smashed MGR’s 35-year record in 2004, foreshadowed a political upheaval in 2026   | Tamil News

Vijay smashed MGR’s 35-year record in 2004, foreshadowed a political upheaval in 2026   | Tamil News

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5 min readHyderabadMay 4, 2026 04:46 PM IST A record MG Ramachandran set in 1969 survived nearly four decades of Tamil cinema. When Adimai Penn released on 1 May 1969, it drew the largest opening-week audience any Tamil film had ever pulled. MGR produced it,  and starred in it. The film was many things at once: a historical drama, a mass entertainer, and a piece of political theatre dressed in costume.  However, it took 35 years for anyone to match what that film did at the box office. And that film was Vijay’s 2004 film Ghilli. Ghilli released in April 2004, a Tamil adaptation of the Telugu blockbuster Okkadu (2003), which had made Mahesh Babu a household name in Andhra Pradesh. The film ran for over 200 days in Tamil Nadu theatres. It became the first Tamil film to cross ₹500 crores at the domestic box office alone, and in doing so, it knocked MGR’s Adimai Penn off the record it had held since 1969, the highest first-week viewership for a Tamil film. Vijay was …

35-year age cap for Yuva Morcha national president, 32 for Yuva Morcha units in states| India News

35-year age cap for Yuva Morcha national president, 32 for Yuva Morcha units in states| India News

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After appointing Nitin Nabin as the party’s national president, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken a major step towards making its organisational structure more youth-centric. Newly elected BJP president Nitin Nabin on Wednesday chaired a meeting related to the party’s central office bearers. (X/ @NitinNabin) According to a BJP source, “During a meeting of the party’s national office-bearers, it was decided that the National President of the BJP Yuva Morcha will be appointed from among leaders aged up to 35 years”. The sources added, “In a similar move to strengthen youth leadership at the grassroots level, the party decided that the presidents of the Yuva Morcha units in various states will be appointed from among leaders aged up to 32 years.” The meeting also issued clear directions that all remaining appointments in the state-level youth teams will be made keeping in mind the age of the National President, ensuring a cohesive and youthful leadership structure across the organisation. The decision reflects the BJP’s continued emphasis on empowering young leaders and giving greater responsibility to …

India, Pakistan Continue 35-Year Practice Of Exchanging Nuclear Sites List | India News

India, Pakistan Continue 35-Year Practice Of Exchanging Nuclear Sites List | India News

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Last Updated:January 01, 2026, 16:22 IST The pact that came into force on January 27, 1991, mandates the two countries to inform each other of nuclear installations on the first of January of every calendar year. EAM S Jaishankar (PTI Image) Continuing an over three-decade practice, India and Pakistan on Thursday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral pact that prohibits the two sides from attacking each other’s atomic facilities. The exchange of the list came even as the ties between the two countries remain under deep freeze following four-day military hostilities last May. The list exchange took place under the provisions of an agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations and facilities, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. It was done simultaneously through diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad. “India and Pakistan today exchanged, through diplomatic channels, simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the list of nuclear installations and facilities, covered under the agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations and facilities between India and …

Madhya Pradesh Ends 35-Year Maoist Presence as Last Hardcore Cadres

Madhya Pradesh Ends 35-Year Maoist Presence as Last Hardcore Cadres

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For the first time since the 1990s, Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district faces the prospect of a future without armed Maoist presence. On Thursday, the last two remaining “hardcore cadres” of the Maoists, Divisional Committee Member Deepak alias Sudhakar and Area Committee Member Rohit alias Manglu, surrendered at a CRPF camp in Balaghat, bringing an operational close to a 35-year chapter of the insurgency in Madhya Pradesh. “The Maoist movement that began in 1988-90 as an armed insurgency has now come to a complete halt in Madhya Pradesh,” said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. Balaghat SP Aditya Mishra told The Indian Express that the surrender of the two men followed two major collapses in the Maoist structure over the past month — the fall of commander Kabir’s 10-member group from the Kanha–Bhoramdeo Division, and the surrender of Central Committee Member Ramdher in Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh. “Together, these surrenders dismantled the leadership, logistics, and ideological scaffolding sustaining Maoists across this forested tri-junction of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh,” Mishra said. Senior officers said these two surrenders created a “vacuum …