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The Hindu
an hour ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Indian sports wrap, June 20: Indian archers bag two individual gold medals; Saptak Talwar off to steady start in Hotel Planner Tour
ARCHERY Indian archers bag two individual gold Indian compound archers bagged two individual gold medals at the Asia Cup Leg-2 in Singapore on Friday. Tejal Salve defeated compatriot Shanmukhi Naga Sai Budde 146-144 to claim the women's title, while Kushal Dalal beat Australian Joshua Mahon 149-143 for the men's crown. Sachin Chechi secured the compound men's bronze. Indians lost in five team finals to take silver medals. THE RESULTS Compound Individual Men: Gold: Kushal Dalal bt Joshua Mahon (Aus) 149-143; Bronze: Sachin Chechi bt Himu Bachhar (Ban) 148-146. Women: Gold: Tejal Salve bt Shanmukhi Naga Sai Budde 146-144. Team: Gold: Men: Kazakhstan bt India 235-231; Women: Malaysia bt India 232-232 (shoot-off 29-26); Mixed: Kazakhstan bt India 155-153. Recurve Gold: Men: Japan bt India 6-0; Mixed: Indonesia bt India 6-0. -Team Sportstar GOLF Saptak on tied 18 with 1-under 69 on Hotel Planner Tour Saptak Talwar started his week at the Golf Bluegreen de Pleneuf Val Andre with a steady round of 1-under 69 to place himself at tied 18 in the standings at the Blot Play9 in Brittany. Talwar has been playing as many events as possible on the Hotel Planner Tour, the second rung of the DP World Tour, and has had modest results but has made seven cuts in nine previous starts. His best finish has been T-37 in the UAE Challenge. Talwar began his round on the front nine and had two bogeys against one birdie by the turn of the round. On the back nine he picked up the pace and picked up shots on the 11th and 14th holes to close the day at one under. -PTI Ajeetesh plays steady first round, lies 13th in Morocco India's Ajeetesh Sandhu started his week at the Morocco Rising Stars event with a bogey-free round of 4-under 68 and was tied 13th after the first day. Sandhu began his day at the Samanah Golf Club on the front nine and had only one birdie on the first nine holes. On the back nine, Sandhu made birdies on the 12th and 16th holes before ending his day with his fourth birdie on the 18th hole. There are a total of eight Indians taking part this week including Sandhu. The others included Karandeep Kochhar (70) at T-26th, Khalin Joshi (71) at T-32, Arjun Sharma (72) at T063. The remaining Indians—Rahil Gangjee (74) at T-78, S. Chikkarangappa (75) and Aman Raj (75) and T-93 and Pukhraj Singh Gill (76) at T-106—will need to to pick up the pace if they hope to make cut. -PTI Disappointing start by Aditi Ashok Indian golfer Aditi Ashok endured another rough start at a Major as she began the KPMG Women's PGA Championship at Fields Ranch East with a disappointing 9-over 81 that had no birdies. Almost sure to miss the cut unless she shoots a very low second round, she was lying tied 135th and the projected cut is around 3-over. Aditi had six bogeys and one triple bogey. -PTI Rayhan Thomas shoots 64 to lie seventh Rayhan Thomas equalled his best first round score of the season with a 6-under 64 and was tied seventh at the end of the first day of the Wichita Open. Rayhan, who had a top-10 in his second start of the season in Bahamas in January, has had a rough run since then. In 12 starts since that week in the Bahamas, Rayhan has missed eight cuts and withdrawn once. Last week at the BMW Charity Open, he showed signs of a revival with three of his four rounds in 60s and finished T-42. Rayhan, starting on the tenth, had four birdies in the first six holes. He added two more on his second nine on the second and the third and added a final birdie on the ninth. His sole bogey was on the sixth, his 15th hole of the day. -PTI
Hindustan Times
2 hours ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Ajeetesh Sandhu plays steady first round, lies 13th in Morocco
Marrakech, India's Ajeetesh Sandhu started his week at the Morocco Rising Stars event with a bogey-free round of 4-under 68 and was tied 13th after the first day here. Sandhu began his day at the Samanah Golf Club on the front nine and had only one birdie on the first nine holes. On the back nine Sandhu made birdies on the 12th and 16th holes before ending his day with his fourth birdie on the 18th hole. There are a total of eight Indians taking part this week including Sandhu. The others included Karandeep Kochhar at T-26th, Khalin Joshi at T-32, Arjun Sharma at T063. The remaining Indians Rahil Gangjee at T-78, S. Chikkarangappa and Aman Raj and T-93 and Pukhraj Singh Gill at T-106 will need to to pick up the pace if they hope to make cut. Indian-American Manav Shah shot 73 to be placed tied 63rd in the standings. At the end of the first round the leader is Thai star Varanyu Rattanaphiboonkij with a round of 9-under 63. The 28-year-old set himself up for a chance at a third tour title with his strong performance. Having started on the front nine he looked unstoppable and had picked up shots on the fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth holes. On the back nine he continued his run as he shot four more birdies on the 12th, 14th, 16th and 18th holes to shoot a bogey-free first round. Filipino Aidric Chan shot a bogey-free round of 8-under 64 to be in the second spot for the day. In third place there is a three-way tie between Matt Killen, Shahriffuddin Ariffin and Finlay Mason with 6-under 66 each.
News18
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
This Actress Was Called 'Ugly, Twig' In South, Later Starred In Vicky Kaushal's Rs 70 Cr Film
Last Updated: Banita Sandhu was skinny shamed when she starred in a South Indian film. Body shaming and remarks on a person's physical appearance have been no new feat. Women are expected to have a perfectly toned body, and especially in the entertainment industry, actresses are constantly under scrutiny for their looks and are often subjected to severe criticism and brutal trolling. Welsh actress Banita Sandhu, who is known for her roles in 'October' and 'Sardar Udham', opened up about body shaming and revealed how she was once criticised for being too skinny. In a conversation with ANI, she recalled the incident of being body-shamed and how it affected her, 'I remember getting body shamed when I did a South Indian movie. I remember people calling me ugly because I looked like a twig. And how could the co-star be attracted to me in the movie, because I was so skinny? That was the first time I think I experienced body shaming. But at the same time, it was this weird, it almost felt like a simulation because it was happening online. I don't know how to explain it. And it was from a culture that was something I hadn't grown up in." Banita continued, 'So I didn't feel as closely offended or criticised by it. I was like, oh, okay, the beauty standard in this region is different to what I look like. And that's just how I took it. I didn't take it to heart. Like, oh, my God, I need to gain so much weight now. And I'm because I'm naturally very skinny, you can literally ask any producer I've worked with, like I eat the most on set." However, she suggested facing such criticisms without getting affected by them, 'So it wasn't something like it was the first time I experienced something like that. But also, I think with anything online, you just can't take it seriously… You really can't." Sandhu was born and brought up in Caerleon, Wales. She made her film debut with the 2018 Shoojit Sircar directorial 'October', starring Varun Dhawan. This was followed by the American TV series 'Pandora' and the Tamil film 'Adithya Varma', both in 2019. She was later seen in 'Sardar Udham'. The ace star said, 'I was incredibly blessed. It was one of those things that, it was like a domino effect, and everything kind of just fell into place, and to have, your first movie with a director like that, too, it's a blessing and a curse, because it's a blessing to have your first movie with a director like that, but it's a curse in a sense that you really realise what a privilege it is to have a director like that for your first movie, and it's hard to get back there again." Sandhu is gearing up for her next project, 'Detective Sherdil', starring Diljit Dosanjh. She opened up about sharing the screen space with Diljit and her role in the film. While speaking about her experience in the film, she said, " My experience of working on Detective Shield was… I think it was the funnest time I've ever had on a movie set, honestly. I had the best time. It was incredible working with an ensemble cast like this, and we shot in Budapest, and it was so beautiful, and I really had a blast on this one." She added, 'I think one of the main challenges for me was… I'm an actor who likes to have sufficient time to prep. I came on board with this movie like two weeks before they started shooting, so I didn't have much time, but we kind of just went into like intensive modes, and really went in on rehearsals, and workshops. I felt supported, because my character is deaf, and for that there had to be a lot of research, and rehearsal, and also kind of observation as well, and understanding your scenes, so that those technicalities don't come in the way of you acting when you're on set." Banita, who featured in the music video 'Jindh Mahi', alongside Diljit Dosanjh in 2018, shared her working experience with her in the movie. 'The great thing with Diljit is he is exactly the same as when I worked with him for the first time, as he was the second time. He is a kind of person who just keeps his head down, and he focusses, and he has a great work ethic, and incredible discipline, and I'm not surprised to see that he's gotten to where he has, because I've seen him put in the work over all of these years, so it's really fortunate for me to get to witness… someone who was really on the rise, and now to see them in like superstardom, it's incredible. We made several reels on the sets," she added. While praising Dosanjh for his style statement, the 'Adithya Varma' actor said, 'He's the best-dressed man in India, hands down." The film boasts a stellar ensemble cast including Diana Penty, Boman Irani, Ratna Pathak Shah, Chunky Panday, Sumeet Vyas, Kashmira Irani, and others. It is directed and edited by Ravi Chhabriya. The film is set to premiere on Zee5 on June 20, 2025. First Published: June 18, 2025, 20:55 IST
Saudi Gazette
2 days ago
- General
- Saudi Gazette
Lone Air India survivor carries coffin of brother killed in crash
AHMEDABAD — The British man who was the sole survivor of last week's Air India plane crash has helped lay his brother to rest at a funeral in western India. Vishwashkumar Ramesh's brother Ajay was also on the ill-fated flight but did not survive the tragedy. A visibly upset Ramesh was one of the pall bearers who carried his brother's coffin to the crematorium in the town of Diu, his arm and face still covered in white bandages. He's spent most of the past five days in hospital. The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed seconds after taking off on Thursday from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. At least 270 people were killed, most of them passengers. Ramesh's mother walked with the coffin in a blue sari along with other mourners, as he held it on his right shoulder. Several people from the town, which lost 14 other people to the crash, came out for the funeral even as the rain lashed the one is clear how Ramesh managed to survive. He even tried to go back to the blazing plane to search for his brother, one of the first responders at the scene told the a new video that emerged earlier this week, ambulance driver Satinder Singh Sandhu is the man seen guiding Ramesh to safety as he walks out of the crash site with flames and thick smoke billowing into the air behind a supervisor with the emergency ambulance services in Ahmedabad, says he had no idea who he was helping, or that Ramesh had escaped from the plane. He only found out later that day on the news that the man was the sole survivor of the Ramesh, 40, was in seat 11A on the flight. His brother is reported to have been sitting a few seats other passengers and crew were killed and nearly 30 people also died on the ground after the plane hurtled down and crashed into a doctor's Ramesh miraculously survived, managing to get out of the wreckage through an opening in the new video shows Sandhu, who's wearing a blue turban, walk up to Ramesh and guide him to said he was having lunch with his colleagues when he first noticed a "massive fire with thick smoke rising into the sky"."At first, we thought it might be a car accident or a gas cylinder blast. Soon, we learned it was a plane crash. I immediately instructed my team to bring an ambulance, and rushed to the site."Speaking to BBC Gujarati, Sandhu said that he was just trying to do his job. In his decades-long career, he said he had encountered many challenging what surprised him that day was how Ramesh, after being rescued, kept trying to go back to the site of the crash."He had no idea what he was doing. He kept going in and out of the complex. We told him to stop, and dragged him away to an ambulance so that he could receive medical care," Sandhu said."That's when he said to me that his relative was trapped inside and he wanted to go save him. We did not speak a word after that."Ramesh later told India's DD News that he was trying to go look for the scene, Sandhu spotted a security guard who seemed to have been injured in the impact. His clothes were partially burnt and Sandhu first helped him."I also saw a woman. She was screaming in horror. Her son who ran a tea stall had been killed in the crash."Moments later he saw Ramesh emerge from the crash site in a white had injuries on his face and burns on his arms and looked visibly upset, Sandhu said."At that point, we had no idea who the injured man was. I thought he was one of the doctors who lived in the college. Later, when we saw the news, we realised he was the lone survivor of the crash."Chirag, a member of Sandhu's ambulance team, told PTI news agency that Ramesh was telling someone on a video call that his relatives were at the crash first responders treated him for his injuries and rushed him to the trauma centre of a hospital his interview with DD News, Ramesh had said he could not believe that he came out of the wreckage alive."For a moment, I felt like I was going to die too, but when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realised I was alive."I still can't believe how I survived. I walked out of the rubble."The cause of the crash is not yet known. Officials are trying to decode the cockpit voice and flight data recorders — collectively known as the black box — recovered from the wreckage to piece together what happened. — BBC
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mirror
Heartbreaking moment Air India survivor tries to rescue brother from wreckage
Emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu described how he desperately called out to Vishwash Ramesh after spotting him trying to go back into the burning wreckage of Flight 171 The sole survivor of the India Air plane crash tried to go back to the wreckage in an attempt to save his brother from "burning to death". A total of 270 people were killed in the devastating incident last Thursday in Ahmedabad in western India. Yet somehow Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, a British national of Indian origin, managed to walk away from the plane with only minor injuries. Now, astonishing footage has surfaced showing Ramesh bravely trying to go back into the flaming building that plane had smashed into as smoke billowed all around. Emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu, seen in the clip below wearing a turquoise turban and orange shirt, is seen frantically waving his arms to try and stop the dazed man. "I saw a man in a white t-shirt walking back towards the fire. He appeared quite dazed and confused and I shouted: 'Stop. What are you doing? Don't go back in there. You'll die'," he told the MailOnline. He described the loud panic and confusion at the scene but was thankful that Ramesh heard min above the commotion and started to walk back towards him. Earlier footage had emerged showing the survivor appearing to walk out from the wreckage. However, in light of the the new video it was in fact showing Ramesh walking towards Sandhu after he had called him over. "The man had initially walked away from the crash but how he did that I don't know," the emergency worker said. He added that he was "screaming" and "begging" for Ramesh not to go into the death trap. At the time, he believed Ramesh was a passerby or a hostel resident. After turning away from the wreckage, he heartbreakingly Sandhu: "My family member is in there, my brother and he's burning to death. I have to save him." A bloodied and disorientated Ramesh was led away, limping to a waiting ambulance. He told paramedics that he was flying to London when the plane crashed and wanted to go back to save his family. Ramesh was unaware then that he was the only survivor on the plane out of 242 passengers and crew members. Ramesh was in seat 11A while his brother Ajay, 45 was seated across the aisle from him. Sandhu, responsible for a fleet of ambulances at Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital, was having lunch when he heard a loud noise. He described the scene as "horrific" when he arrived and with "burnt bodies" all over the street. Speaking about his disbelief that Ramesh survived the crash he added that it was, "more shocking that if it hadn't been for me, he'd have gone back into the flames because he was determined to save his brother."
