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Djokovic Targets Golden Slam

The season might’ve just be-gun for Novak Djokovic. That’s a warning. The man who scaled ‘Mount Everest’ twice in 48 hours, is eyeing more peaks. Another couple of Slams. A golden rainbow.

Djokovic Comes Back From Two Sets Down To Beat Tsitsipas, Is First In 52 Years To Win All Slams Twice

After four hours and 11 minutes of action, Novak Djokovic reached up for a high volley and punched out some stirring new lines in tennis history. His second French Open crown, a 19th Grand Slam title, made him the first man in the Open Era to win at least two titles in each major championship.

Even If There Was No Lockdown, We'd Have Had An Intimate Wedding, Says Danish Sait

The morning after his close-knit wedding with Anya Rangaswami (which was held on June 10), Danish Sait was a busy man. “I’m just overwhelmed by the sheer number of messages on my phone. Just when I hit click ‘reply’ to someone, there’s another message popping. I just told Anya that probably we should divide this task between ourselves to thank each one personally,” he says.

A First: Women Guards Patrol Nanda Devi Forests At 14,500 Ft

Dehradun: At 14,500 feet, one can leave nothing to chance. So, for months, Durga Sati, 32, Roshni Negi, 25, and Mamta Kansas, 33, had been preparing for the taxing trek. Last week, they became the first women guards to be deployed in the treacherous forests of the country’s second-highest mountain, Nanda Devi, over 25,000 feet high.

Big Splash! SUV Nosedives Into 43-ft Well As Ground Caves In

Mumbai: An SUV fell into a 43-foot-deep well in Ghatkopar on Sunday morning, creating huge waves on social media as a video of the incident went viral. The spot where the car had been parked was once the mouth of a well that was now covered.

‘Students Won't Need Vax Proof To Enter US'

Embassy Official Says Easing Their Travel Top Priority

Lung Issues Biggest Reason For Post-Covid Return To Hospital

Mumbai: The number of patients needing hospitalisation after a Covid-19 infection is worrying doctors in the city.

Matter Of Pride: Inside State's First Shelter Home For Trans Members

How will my lipstick be visible? wonders Nashik's Shagun when asked to wear a surgical mask before breaking into a jig for our camera. Zeba, her new friend from Kurla, too, chooses to wrap the thin blue mask around her wrist instead as the duo dance with feeling to a sultry Hindi number. It seems all masks--literal and figurative--have already been shed at Garima Greh, the newfangled shelter home for transgender (TG) persons in Kalyan whose yellow walls still sport balloons from the inauguration ceremony of June 4.

Daily Toll Is Down, But State Adds 1,606 Old Deaths Again

Mumbai: The state-reported a dip in Covid cases and deaths on Saturday. However, it continued to add a large number of old deaths to the cumulative toll due to the ongoing reconciliation exercise for the 25th day in a row.

Have Been Transparent With Covid Data: Centre

Claims Article In Foreign Mag On Deaths Unfounded

5 Ways To Reassess Your Finances

Whether your bank account bulged or dwindled during the last one-and-a-half years, now is the time to take stock of your financial situation and priorities

Assam Muslims' Fertility Rates Down Since '05-06

2019-20 NFHS Data Disputes Himanta’s View

Pandemic etiquette: The new must-have

KINDNESS, CONCERN, SHARING AND BEING TOGETHER

No need to panic on Covishield gap: Govt

Counters Fauci Doubts About Vax Interval

‘Earth Still Has Precious Wild Places With Shy Tragopans And Curious Snow Leopards'

Environmental filmmaker Doel Trivedy has followed wildlife across the Sundarbans, the Western Ghats and the Himalayas. Writing in Times Evoke Inspire, Doel discusses what drives her to chronicle elusive species in their natural habitat, how she filmed a rare pheasant and an enquiring snow leopard — and how lion cubs nearly ate up her camera traps

Mossad ex-chief signals Israel behind attacks on Iran N-facility, scientist

Dubai: The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a military scientist.

Conway, Young put NZ in control on Day Two

Edgbaston: Devon Conway and Will Young scored half-centuries as New Zealand finished the second day on 229-3, 74 runs behind England’s first innings score in the second and final Test against at Edgbaston on Friday.

‘PM lauded Yogi's effort to battle 2nd wave'

Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appreciated the measures taken by the UP government in battling the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an official statement put out soon after UP CM Yogi Adityanath returned to Lucknow from Delhi.

Blockbuster Friday

Numbers Favour Rafa But Djoko Ready To Stage A Coup

Higher Debit Bounces In May Point To Retail Stress

Mumbai: Bounce rates of payments made under their standing instructions to banks last month have been the highest ever for the month of May in the last five years in value terms.

Engg Enrolment Down 13% In 5 Yrs, Medical Up 51%: Survey

No. Of Univs Rose 30.5% Between 15-16 & 19-20

New Covid Guidelines Discourage Masks For Children Under 5 Years

Say Low Risk Of Infection, Flag Safety Concerns

‘1 in 2 Indian-Americans say they faced bias in 2020'

Washington: They are the second-largest immigrant group in the US and successful academically, professionally, and financially. But that does not inure the 4 million-strong Indian-American community from discrimination and prejudice in the US even as many of them channel their religious and caste identities into America.

Are You Going Through Dating Anxiety?

Swiping through profiles on dating apps still remains the preferred method of dating. Burnouts aside, the new normal in dating has also given rise to new problems that many people may have been overlooking.

Didi Seeks ‘Union Of States' To Take On BJP

Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday borrowed from Article 1 of the Indian Constitution to propose a “union of states” to stop the BJP from bulldozing state governments run by other parties.

CoWIN Blocking Users Logging Over 1,000 Slot Searches, 50 OTPs In 24 Hrs

Users carrying out more than 1,000 searches for vaccine slots or those generating more than 50 OTPs within 24 hours will be blocked from CoWIN for a day, a central official with the portal team told TOI on Wednesday.

BJP Asks If Sonia, Rahul Have Been Vaccinated

New Delhi: Parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday questioned whether Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had been vaccinated, asking why there was lack of clarity on the matter when the opposition was raising questions over the Centre's Covid-19 policy every day.

Desi Expert Traces ‘Great Grandpa' Of SARS-CoV-2

‘B.1.617 Strain Is Child Of Beta Cluster’

Jabbing All Of India

Use methods from mass inoculation models. Involve private doctors, small clinics. Allow mobile vax centres

The Siraj dilemma

India Working On Plan To Fit Siraj In Playing XI For The WTC Final