Diksha, who finished the third round in tied fifth place, carded a 3-under 70 on the Par-73 Modderfontein Golf Club and totaled 9-under 283 to finish tied-third alongside Spaniard Luna Sobron Galmes (71). Her earlier rounds were 73-71-69-70.

This was Diksha’s best finish of the 2024 season and her third top-10 finish. She was ninth at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco and then tied-sixth at Aramco Ladies in Florida.

Tvesa Malik, who looked set for a top-10 finish as she birdied three times on the front nine, had a disappointing back nine, dropping two bogeys and a double bogey and ended with 1-over 74 and fell to tied 29th after being tied 24 overnight

The Archery World Cup 2024 has begun today in Shanghai, China. India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam finished second in the women’s compound qualification round at Stage I.

The 27-year-old Asian Games gold medallist shot a score of 711 to finish behind Andrea Becerra of Mexico, who had a score of 713.

Meanwhile, the reigning world champion from India, Aditi Swami, finished eighth in the qualification round with a score of 704. The other two Indians, Parneet Kaur (703) and Avneet Kaur (696) finished 14th and 23rd, respectively.

The Indian women’s team, comprising top three scorers Vennam, Swami, and Parneet, finished as the best team in the qualification round with a total score of 2118. The Indian women’s team will, thus, start as the top seeds in the competition, ahead of South Korea (2117) and Mexico (2116). The teams are ranked by adding the individual scores of the top three archers from the country.

MATTER, a pioneering force in India's Electric mobility and energy landscape, proudly announces winning the Clarivate South Asia Innovation Awards 2024 in the Automotive category, solidifying its position as an Emerging Player. This esteemed accolade, conferred by Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, celebrates MATTER's relentless commitment to innovation and technological excellence in the realm of clean energy & mobility solutions.

At MATTER, innovation is not just a goal; it's a way of life. With a steadfast focus on revolutionizing India's energy landscape, MATTER stands at the forefront of developing cutting-edge future mobility products and advanced energy storage solutions. Operating through two key segments – MATTER Mobility and MATTER Energy – the company is committed to reducing carbon footprints, enhancing energy efficiency, and empowering individuals to contribute meaningfully to a greener, more sustainable world.

C-DOT and Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (IIT-J) have signed an agreement to develop an automated service management system using AI to enhance the efficiency of 5G and beyond networks, a PIB press release stated.

The agreement is part of the Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) of the DoT, which provides funding support to domestic companies and institutions engaged in research and development of telecommunication products and solutions in order to enable affordable broadband and mobile services in remote and rural areas.

The primary goal of the project is to create AI frameworks for automated network management, fault detection, and diagnostic processes using continuous information generated within the network. The framework aims to establish a real-time 5G and beyond testbed in compliance with O-RAN standards for demonstration of the developed automated network management and slicing techniques with specific application use-cases such as smart metering and remotely operated vehicles.

Celebrated psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar was also a great table tennis player. Vikram Lal, former CEO of Eicher Motors, who lived in his Delhi locality in the 1970s, recalls that he won several state-level trophies growing up in Rajasthan. They played together sometimes, but it was their proximity at a time when there weren’t many young couples in the area, and his wife’s interest in psychology, that sealed their lifelong friendship – one that would witness Kakar’s rise as the ‘father of Indian psychoanalysis’, becoming one of the sole practitioners of the discipline in India. Kakar died Monday at the age of 85.

The author of more than 20 non-fiction and fiction works, he was interested in sexuality, mysticism and religion as a counterpart to modern-day globalisation. He studied Freud and applied him to everything from film criticism to psychotherapy to mythology, considering Hindi cinema a producer of “new myths” and “collective fantasies” that came to India’s rescue during great sociopolitical and economic upheaval. Kakar called the phenomenon a “humble representative of the Hindu cultural ideal.”

Novak Djokovic was named World Sportsman of the Year for a record-equalling fifth time at the Laureus Awards ceremony on Monday, while Spanish footballer Aitana Bonmati won individual and team awards.

Tennis great Djokovic, a record 24-time Grand Slam champion, equalled his former rival Roger Federer’s tally at the prestigeous ceremony in Madrid.

Djokovic, 36, won three Grand Slams last year along with the ATP Finals.

“I am incredibly honoured to have won my fifth,” said Djokovic.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully carried out a test firing of a new version of an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile that is capable of hitting targets at a distance exceeding 250 km.

The missile, also referred to as ROCKS or Crystal Maze 2, originated from Israel and underwent a test launch from a Su-30 MKI fighter jet in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands last week.

Sources in the defence forces told India Today TV that the missile boasts a strike range of over 250 km and is capable of targeting enemy long-range radar and air defence systems.

With military expenditure worth $83.6 billion in 2023, India was the fourth largest spender globally in 2023, the latest report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) states. This was a result of growing personnel and operations costs that comprised about 80 per cent of the total military budget, the report said.

The latest data showed that the United States, China and Russia remained the top three military spenders globally followed by India and Saudi Arabia.

According to the report, Indian spending was up by 4.2 per cent from 2022 and by 44 per cent from 2014.

Indian Bank has entered into a strategic partnership with Tata Power Solar Systems Ltd. (TPSSL) to boost solar energy adoption by providing financial support to residential consumers for installations.

The collaboration aims to provide financial support under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana scheme for installations up to 3 KW, and from 3-10 KW under the regular scheme, the public sector lender said in a statement.

Residential consumers can avail loans up to ₹2 lakh at an annual interest rate of 7%, with a nominal margin money requirement of 10% and collateral-free financing. The repayment tenure is 10 years.

Digital payments platform Razorpay on Tuesday launched its own Unified Payments Interface (UPI) infrastructure, or UPI switch, in partnership with Airtel Payments Bank.

The infrastructure is designed to handle up to 10,000 transactions per second, at any given time, and enable five times faster access to UPI innovations for businesses, Razorpay said in a statement.

The infrastructure must be hosted by a bank for businesses to use it. Airtel Payments Bank is Razorpay's banking partner for this.