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The Hindu
6 hours ago
- Sport
- The Hindu
Indian Sports Wrap, August 19: Tanvi, Unnati to lead strong Indian line-up BWF World Junior C'ships
BADMINTON Fast-rising shuttlers Tanvi Sharma and Unnati Hooda, along with boys' doubles pair of Bhargav Ram Arigela and Viswa Tej Gobburu, will lead a 25-member Indian squad at the BWF World Junior Championships to be held in Guwahati from October 6 to 19. The Indian contingent also features Asian Junior Championships bronze medallist Vennala Kalagotla and Rakshitha Sree, making it one of the strongest Indian line-ups for the marquee junior event. The Suhandinata Cup (mixed team championships) will be played from October 6 to 11, followed by the individual events from October 13 to 19 at the National Centre of Excellence. 'We are very excited that India will be fielding one of its strongest contingents for the World Junior Championships on home turf,' said Badminton Association of India Secretary Sanjay Mishra in a release. 'Our squad boasts two World Junior No. 1s and a few players who have already made their mark on the senior circuit, and I am confident that we will see Indian players on the podium this time.' India last hosted the tournament in 2008 when Saina Nehwal became the first Indian shuttler to win gold, while RMV Guru Sai Dutt bagged the bronze in boys' singles. The country has so far won 11 medals at the event, including four silver and six bronze. The final squad was picked through a two-stage trial that featured Asian Junior Championships participants, world junior top-20 players, BAI singles top-8, BAI doubles top-4 pairs and juniors inside the BWF senior top-50. Tanvi and Vennala, both Asian Junior bronze medallists, earned direct selection. Indian team: Boys' Singles (U19): Rounak Chouhan, Gnana Dattu T.T., Lalthazuala H, Suryaksh Rawat Girls' Singles (U19): Tanvi Sharma, Vennala Kalagotla, Unnati Hooda, Rakshitha Sree S. Boys' Doubles (U19): Sumith A.R./Bhavya Chhabra, Bhargav Ram Arigela/Viswa Tej Gobburu, Vishnu Kedhar Kode/Mithileish P. Krishnan Girls' Doubles (U19): Vennala Kalagotla/Reshika U, Gayatri Rawat/Mansa Rawat, Aanya Bisht/Angel Punera Mixed Doubles (U19): Bhavya Chhabra/Vishakha Toppo, Lalramsanga C/Taarini Suri, Vishnu Kedhar Kode/Keerthy Manchala, Vansh Dev/Dianka Waldia. -PTI WRESTLING World U-20 Championships: Sumit Malik wins silver medal in men's 57kg freestyle event Sumit Malik lost 5-8 to European under-20 bronze medallist Magomed Ozdamirov in the 57kg freestyle final to take the silver medal at the World under-20 wrestling championships in Samokov, Bulgaria, on Tuesday. Women wrestlers Tapasya (57kg) and Srishti (68kg) reached their respective finals to ensure two more medals for India. Tapasya pinned Dolzhon Tsyngueva and France's Romaissa El Kharroubi before pipping Japanese Sowaka Uchida 4-3 to secure a place in the title clash. Srishti gave authoritative performances to beat Brazil's Eduarda Batista 10-0, Poland's Dominika Pochowska 'by fall', Serbia's Masa Perovic 10-0 and Germany's Laura Koehler 7-3 on her way to the final. -Team Sportstar TENNIS Dhakshineswar Suresh makes ATP main draw Dhakshineswar Suresh lost the main draw first round 6-3, 6-3 to Mariano Navone of Argentina, after winning two rounds of qualifying event in the $798,335 ATP tennis tournament in Winston Salem, USA. The big serving Dhakshineswar who beat seeded Alejandro Tabilo and Aidan Mayo in the qualifying event, collected eight ATP points for qualification and $4,260. He has also got a wild card for doubles with Luca Pow and will challenge the top seeds Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski. In the Challenger in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sumit Nagal beat lucky-loser Filip Pieczonka of Poland 6-4, 6-3 in the first round. RESULTS $798,335 ATP, Winston Salem, USA Singles (first round): Mariano Navone (Arg) bt Dhakshineswar Suresh 6-3, 6-3. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Romain Arneodo (Mon) & Rohan Bopanna bt Luciano Darderi (Ita) & Alexandre Muller (Fra) 6-1, 6-1. €91,250 Challenger, Sofia, Bulgaria Singles (first round): Sumit Nagal bt Filip Pieczonka (Pol) 6-4, 6-3; Marat Sharipov bt Aryan Shah 7-5, 6-2. $15,000 ITF men, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Singles (first round): Ammar Alhogbani (KSA) bt Parth Aggarwal 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-2. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): M Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) & Junhyeon Lee (Kor) bt Atharva Sharma & Yuta Tomida (Jpn) 7-6(4), 6-4; Sai Karteek Reddy & Thantub Suksumrarn (Tha) bt Dmitry Bessonov & Jerko Brkic (Cro) 6-2, 6-2. $15,000 ITF women, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Singles (first round): Primmada Thongkum (Tha) bt Pooja Ingale 6-1, 6-1. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Pooja Ingale & Paola Lopez (USA) bt Papitchaya Isaro & Sorvisa Kulphisanrat (Tha) 6-2, 1-6, [10-8]. -Team Sportstar GOLF Ridhima, Jasmine and Neha among top starters in 11th leg of WPGT Ridhima Dilawari and Jasmine Shekar, winners of the last two events on the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour, will headline the field alongside Vidhatri Urs and Neha Tripathi in the 11th leg of the tour at the picturesque Prestige Golfshire here from Wednesday. The course is situated at the foothills of the Nandi Hills. A field of 29 professionals and five amateurs will tee off in the event which carries a purse of Rs. 15 lakh. In July, Ridhima won the 10th leg after being runner-up on two occasions this season. Earlier Jasmine won the ninth leg, edging past Neha Tripathi. Vidhatri is yet to taste success this season. Other prominent players in the field include Seher Atwal, Kriti Chowhan, Durga Nittur, Khushi Khanijau and Anvitha Narender. The amateurs are led by Mannat Brar, who has been performing well this season. Ridhima, who is second on the Order of Merit, and has Rs. 9,58,000 in winnings this year, has a chance to become only the second player to cross the Rs. 10 lakh mark after Vani Kapoor, who is playing in the Hills Open in Sweden this week. Ridhima is drawn with Jahaanvie Walia and amateur Mannat Brar in the first round, while Jasmine plays with Geetika Ahuja and amateur Riddhima Singh. A large number of Indian players are playing on the Ladies European Tour this week and they include regulars like Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall, Sneha Singh and Hitaashee Bakshi. -PTI Yuvraj Sandhu continues hot streak, leads after opening round Chandigarh's Yuvraj Sandhu, the Order of Merit leader and last week's winner in Mysuru, continued his hot streak with his opening round effort of eight-under 63 that gave him the lead at the Rs 1 crore PGTI Players Championship in Hosur on Tuesday. The event is being played at the Clover Greens Golf Course & Resort. The trio consisting of Nepal's Subash Tamang, Delhi's Shaurya Bhattacharya and Hyderabad's Milind Soni shot scores of seven-under 64 at the Par-71 course to occupy tied second position. Mohd Azhar of Hyderabad was placed fifth at 65 while Bengaluru-based teenaged amateur Veer Ganapathy was placed tied sixth at 66. As PGTI made its debut at Clover Greens, most of the professionals were playing their first ever competitive round at the picturesque venue. Sandhu, also making his first visit to Clover Greens, outperformed all the others on day one in overcast, cool and extremely windy conditions as the temperature hovered between 20 to 24 degrees celsius. Sandhu, a three-time winner this season on the PGTI, mastered the tree-lined narrow fairways and the wind by producing three birdies on the back-nine and then adding an eagle and four birdies at the cost of a solitary bogey on the front-nine. The 28-year-old Sandhu's round was highlighted by a 20-feet eagle conversion on the second, a drive that found the Par-4 13th green and two terrific up and downs, one from the hazard and one from the rough, for birdies. Sandhu said, 'I've started really enjoying playing in such gusty conditions, I feel I thrive in these situations. Like I said last week, I've developed my skills of playing in these conditions with all my experience of playing in Asia. 'It's also great to lead in my very first round at a venue, just like last week in Mysuru. Clover Greens is a short track but it has a lot of challenges to offer courtesy its narrow, tree-lined fairways and the pot bunkers. 'Fortunately, I played the Pro-Am couple of days back with the owner of the course Mr. Austin Roach who gave me a good insight into the challenges posed by this course. That was very helpful for me.' Subash Tamang, the 2023 All India Amateur champion, mixed eight birdies with a bogey on day one. His accurate approach shots left him six birdie putts within a range of four feet. Shaurya Bhattacharya and Milind Soni, who were both tied second along with Tamang, produced two eagles each during their rounds of 64. Shaurya, a winner this year, chipped-in for his eagle on the 12th and came up with a fabulous second shot from 190 yards to leave himself a tap-in for eagle on the second hole. -PTI
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Boston Globe
Healey seeks to make Mass. drivers' crash records public again
Such was the case following an April school bus crash that Related : Advertisement Healey, in a statement, said her proposal restores the historical practice of allowing the state's Registry of Motor Vehicles to release records of crashes and motor vehicle violations. Making this information available 'is important for public safety and accountability,' she said in the statement. 'I do not believe that this basic information, which has been regularly provided for decades, was intended to be withheld under the law,' Healey said. 'This (proposed) change will make this information available for disclosure once again, while continuing safeguards to protect drivers' privacy and security.' Advertisement The BPS school bus crash remains under investigation by Boston police and the Suffolk district attorney's office. A separate probe overseen by a Charles has not been charged in connection with the crash. Healey's proposal, which would must be approved by the Legislature, specifies that driving histories, which comprise a list of citations, would be public records. The Registry would have to redact information like home addresses and social security numbers under the proposal. There would be a public feedback period before any change went into effect, according to a Healey spokesperson. Matthew Fogelman, one of the attorneys who is representing the Joseph family, said Friday that the family supports making public drivers' histories of vehicle violations. In May, the Globe reported that Charles struck two other vehicles in Mattapan, minutes prior to the deadly crash, and attempted to flee the scene after Lens was struck. Related : Charles had been driving since December with an expired state credential required to operate a school bus, according to city and school district officials. In the year prior to the Hyde Park crash, Charles was involved The Globe requested Charles's driving history from the Registry May 22. The RMV initially declined to release Charles's driving records due to the Work Family Mobility Act. The agency has pointed to the law's wording, and state Attorney General Andrea Campbell's subsequent regulations, as the reason it wouldn't release the records. Advertisement Charles's name did not appear on either of the documents, and the RMV has not confirmed whether Charles's license had been suspended. Charles was an employee of Transdev, and he resigned from the company in mid-May, shortly before a scheduled termination hearing, city and school district leaders have said. Aside from the law enforcement investigation and city probe, the case continues to draw scrutiny. In July, the Joseph The John Hilliard can be reached at
Yahoo
08-08-2025
- Yahoo
The no-go zone: Why are there no bathrooms at I-91 rest areas?
I had seen the sign on Interstate Route 91 promising a rest area two miles ahead, if I got off the highway. There was no mistaking what it said, though: 'No Facilities.' After I take Exit 43 and skirt the Greenfield rotary, I see another sign. It's a big, official blue one. All it reads is 'Rest Area,' with an arrow pointing left. I allow myself to hope. Rest area means restrooms. All across this country's interstate highway system, from California to North Carolina, a blue sign with 'rest area' means bathrooms for travelers. Many parking areas, truck weighing stations and other rest areas are carved out along I-91, running 55 miles from Springfield in the south to the Massachusetts/Vermont border in the north. Not one of them provides a restroom. I spot another rest area sign telling me to take a left. I brake, approach slowly, then I realize this rest area with a kiosk is little more than a shared parking area with a state Registry of Motor Vehicles office. No restrooms for travelers. There's a gazebo shading a kiosk with an enlarged map of Massachusetts. But I don't need a map. I know where I am. I need a restroom. Despite the 'No Facilities' sign I saw back on I-91, I enter the RMV. In the corner, two security officers eye the crowd standing in silent lines. I see the public restrooms behind the officers. I act like I have RMV business then head to the men's room. On the way out, I hold the door for an irate RMV customer wearing an orange sleeveless T-shirt. He is f-bombing the place, because he couldn't get the service he needed. I look at him and tell him I know how he feels. Because it's the RMV office, I do know how he feels. I go to my car, parked next to the motorcycle where the orange T-shirt guy continues swearing. This time into a phone. All this to find a clean, public restroom along I-91 in Massachusetts. When I called the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Office of Tourism and Travel and the office of state Sen. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, no one seemed to be aware that the Massachusetts stretch of I-91 is a public restroom desert. John Gibbon, spokesperson for MassDOT, sent an email stating, in part, that 'The Greenfield RMV service center, located off of I-91 exit 26, shares a building with the Greenfield Tourist Information Center, which offers restrooms.' It's not my habit to correct public officials. But, well, Gibbon was off twice in one sentence. Exit 26 has not been Exit 26 for years, because MassDOT changed the numbers, according to the state website. It is now Exit 43. Also, the sign I saw back on I-91 about the Greenfield rest area said 'No Facilities.' Who is going to stop in order to use the facilities when the sign says there aren't any? Besides me, that is. As for Sen. Comerford's office, it offered a polite we-don't-have-time-for-this email. Health insurance rates for some public employees were due to balloon. The lack of restrooms on I-91 did not move the constituent needle. I wonder if I am alone in wondering why it is that a state like Massachusetts, which promotes itself as a vacation destination, does not provide a welcoming facility for people to use restrooms. After all, I-91 is one of the major portals into the state, a straight access from Connecticut and New York City. Tens of thousands of vehicles pour into Massachusetts on I-91 every day from two other states. Thousands of people need a drink of water, a safe place to stretch their legs and a clean restroom. The interstate that runs from the Long Island Sound in New Haven, Connecticut, to the Canadian border at Derby Line, Vermont, was built for the most part in the 1960s. Construction started in 1958 and ended in 1970 when the Springfield section of the interstate was completed. 'If you gotta go' No public restrooms have been available along the Massachusetts section of I-91 for decades – possibly for as long as the highway has been around. The original thinking, supposedly, was that people can get off I-91 and patronize local businesses, shifting the bathroom burden to private enterprise. Some apparently felt that that since I-91 ran through largely rural areas, it didn't need to provide bathrooms, unlike busy I-90 (the Mass Pike locally) and I-95. Both have 'service plazas.' By contrast, the pull-off on I-91 northbound in Holyoke is billed as a 'scenic area.' Marco Panella knows every mile of I-91 in Massachusetts. He drives to New York City from his home in Brattleboro, Vermont, for work as many as 40 times a year. 'It's annoying,' Panella said of the Massachusetts rest areas having no restrooms. 'Where do you go?' After a pause, Panella said, 'There are gas stations.' This late morning, Panella, 45, did not use a gas station. He chose the woods in Bernardston next to a northbound parking area on I-91. Between Wallingford, Connecticut, and Vermont's Welcome Center five miles north of the state line, there are no public restrooms on I-91, according to Panella. 'Massachusetts is weird that way,' said Panella. 'I don't know why there's nothing on I-91.' Two rest areas with bathrooms remain on I-91 in Connecticut – at Exit 15 in Wallingford on the southbound side and at Exit 19 in Middletown for travelers heading north. Both are only seasonal, though, operating from April to November. According to sources online, Connecticut closed other rest areas with bathrooms in the past two decades to save money and in response to vandalism. Panella may be able to use the woods when he commutes alone, but he said that when he travels with his wife and children, he prefers not using the tree option. 'I guess it presents an opportunity for gas stations,' said Panella. 'Maybe it's just not that welcoming around here,' said a woman from Tennessee who was giving Louie, her Shih Tzu, a break on a patch of crabgrass on a northbound parking area near mile marker 34 in Whately. Sherri, 62, who was loathe to give her last name, said the weeds were good enough for Louie. 'That's all we needed,' said Sherri, who moved to western Massachusetts last fall from a suburb outside Nashville. Nannette, Sherri's friend on the drive north, did offer that though a patch of green was good enough for a dog, maybe Massachusetts should think about the people doing the driving. 'There should be actual rest areas, not just parking areas,' said Nannette, 69, who was giving Mika, the other Shih Tzu a turn on the crabgrass. Dave Sevedejko exploits the opportunity. Sevedejko said that as long as Massachusetts chooses to offer only I-91 rest areas without restrooms, his store just off the Greenfield rotary on Route 2 will be busy with people walking urgently from their cars. 'They're full all the time,' said Sevedejko, pointing at the two restrooms inside the Circle K Convenience Store/Irving Gas Station he manages. Sevedejko said people tell him regularly that his establishment is their de facto rest area. 'We have a reputation for gas and go, so to speak,' said Sevedejko, who has been working at the store for 14 years. He said he hopes people using the restrooms will buy something from the store. But if people only stop to use the facilities, and don't buy anything, 'that's part of the game,' he said. He will not make a fuss, because 'if you gotta go, you gotta go.' 'Not even a damn porta-potty' Over on the southbound side of the interstate, closer to Vermont, a Chicopee resident had a choice way describe rest areas without rest rooms. 'It's crap,' said Wally Kluza, who was providing water in a plastic bowl for his two small dogs, Charlie and Rocky. 'Not even a damn porta-potty.' Kluza said he often makes the drive from Chicopee to Lincoln, Vermont, to help his son, who's building a house. Kluza has lived in western Massachusetts most of his life. He can't remember in 64 years having a rest area with bathrooms on I-91. 'Where's my (tax) money going to?' Kluza asked. He provided his own answer. 'Oh, yeah, Boston.' The interstate 'gets so much use,' said Kluza. 'C'mon, where do you go? The third tree on the left?' Gibbon, the MassDOT spokesperson, said in his email, 'Since 2009, MassDOT has not received funding in the state budget for rest areas.' People driving through Massachusetts on I-91 will not see anything like what Vermont offers just five miles past the state line. Vermont built a visitor center so elaborate that one employee working there called it 'the flagship.' Carved into a nine-foot-long granite block at the center is an invitation to visitors. 'Welcome to Vermont.' That's much more hospitable than tramping off into the woods in Massachusetts. The Vermont Welcome Center in Guilford makes good on its restroom promise – and more. The massive timber frame structure has rocking chairs for the weary, vending machines for the hungry, a water cooler, even a wood-burning stove in the corner for a cooler season. The ceiling must be 30 feet high. The posts and beams themselves seem to welcome visitors to the Green Mountain State. While Vermont may seem welcoming to arriving bathroom-seekers from the south, there are long stretches in the middle of the state without such amenities. John Richardson, one of four employees on the floor at the center, looked around in admiration at the place. 'A lot of people from Massachusetts talk to us about that,' Richardson said of the beautiful building. Visitors from Massachusetts say, 'This is so nice. We want one of these,' said Richardson, 64, a former farmer. Vermont depends on visitors to power its economy. Because of that, welcoming people makes sense, Richardson says. 'It's a matter of where you put your priorities,' he said. Read the original article on MassLive. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Average UK house asking price drops by almost £5,000
The average price of a UK property coming to the market in July dropped by 1.2% to £373,709 in the largest monthly price drop at this time of year recorded in over 20 years of data, as new sellers lower their price expectations, according to Rightmove (RMV.L). According to the property site, this month's price drop of £4,531 comes as sellers lower expectations to catch buyers' attention amid a high supply of homes for sale. London, the country's largest regional market, leads the charge in price reductions with an overall drop of 1.5%, driven largely by Inner London, where prices fell by 2.1%. This market shift comes as sellers in the capital react to external factors, including changes to stamp duty and tax rules, while also trying to compete for the growing pool of potential buyers. Despite the price reductions, buyers are still active, with the number of sales agreed up 5% compared to this time last year. Furthermore, inquiries from potential buyers are 6% higher than in 2023, indicating continued demand. At the same time, affordability is improving for many buyers, helped by lower mortgage rates and rising wages. 'We're seeing an interesting dynamic between pricing and activity levels right now. The healthy and improving level of property sales being agreed shows us that there are motivated buyers out there who are willing to finalise a deal for the right property. What's most important to remember in this market is that the price is key to selling," Colleen Babcock, property expert at Rightmove (RMV.L), said. Read more: UK savers lost nearly £3,000 to inflation over past 5 years "The decade-high level of buyer choice means that discerning buyers can quickly spot when a home looks over-priced compared to the many others that may be available in their area. It appears that more new sellers are conscious of this and are responding to this high-supply market with stand-out pricing to entice buyers and get their home sold," she added. The national drop of 1.2% in July is the largest price fall recorded at this time of year in over two decades of Rightmove (RMV.L) data, as high level of housing supply and the summer holiday season have made the market more competitive. Rightmove said sellers have been forced to become more agile in their pricing strategies, given the oversupply of homes available for sale. 'It's been a promising first half of the year for activity levels, particularly when you consider that some will have brought their plans forward to try to avoid added stamp duty from April," Babcock said. "Even after the stamp duty deadline, we're seeing more sales being agreed and more new potential buyers entering the market than at the same time last year. Still, the knock-on effect of high buyer choice is slower price growth, so we're revising down our prediction of how much the asking price of a home will increase over the whole of the year," she added. Rightmove's (RMV.L) revised property price forecast for 2025 now suggests that prices will rise by just 2% instead of the earlier forecast of 4%. The high supply of homes on the market continues to cap significant price growth, but the positive momentum in buyer activity means that prices are still expected to edge up modestly. Read more: Sea-view homes in Britain cost over £88,000 more on average Mortgage affordability is also improving. Rightmove's (RMV.L) mortgage tracker showed that the average two-year fixed mortgage rate has fallen to 4.53%, compared with 5.34% this time last year. This drop, combined with average wage growth of over 5%, means that many buyers are saving around £150 per month on a typical mortgage, creating more room for purchasing power. Looking forward, Rightmove (RMV.L) is maintaining its forecast of 1.15 million property transactions in 2025, as the current market remains active. If the Bank of England cuts rates twice more this year, as is expected, this could further encourage buyer demand and push affordability in the right direction. 'Looking ahead to the second half of 2025, there will still very likely be the usual quieter seasonal periods around the summer holidays and Christmas, but we expect market activity to continue to be resilient. Crucially, buyer affordability is heading in the right direction, and another two bank rate cuts before 2026 would be a big boost to this,' said in to access your portfolio
Axios
18-07-2025
- Automotive
- Axios
Mass. RMV warns text scams are getting smarter
Scammers are deploying increasingly sophisticated phishing campaigns impersonating the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. Why it matters: Registrar Colleen Ogilvie is trying to fight back. She told Axios the RMV never requests personal information or payment via text messaging. The RMV only uses texts for informational purposes. State of play: The fraudulent messages threaten license suspension and registration revocation. They direct recipients to fake websites that may look legitimate but are designed to steal credit card information. Ogilvie said the RMV is facing a third iteration of text scams that now reference MassDOT specifically to appear more legitimate. Previous versions of the scam targeted EZPass users or used generic "DMV" terminology that wouldn't apply to Massachusetts. Ogilvie said artificial intelligence appears to be reducing telltale spelling errors in the texts.
