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Tokyo, Aug 7: Neeraj Chopra on Saturday made history by becoming the first Indian to win gold medal in athletics at Olympic Games when he clinched first position at Tokyo 2020 with a throw of 87.58 metres in the javelin competition.
Chopra has also become only the second Indian after Abhinav Bindra to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics. Chopra now holds gold medals in javelin throw at the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and now the Olympics, all at the same time.
Chopra's gold means India, with seven medals at Tokyo Games, have surpassed the tally of six medals won at 2012 London Olympics. This is the most medals won by India in a single edition of Olympics.
Czech Republic's Jakub Vadlejch bagged silver medal with a throw of 86.67m. His compatriot Vitezslav Vesley took bronze medal with a throw of 85.44m.
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Cuttack, Sep 27: Gold prices in India witnessed a fall as the market opens on Wednesday.
In Odisha, the price of yellow metal 22K (10 grams) traded at Rs 55,900 while the price of 20K gold (10 grams) stood at Rs 50,700.
Meanwhile, the price of 18K gold (10 grams) stood at Rs 45,900. The price of 14K gold (10 grams) stood at Rs 36,100.
In Cuttack, the GST 995 yellow metal traded at Rs 6,040 per gram and the ready 995 gold prices stood at Rs 5,980 per gram.
The price of silver metal also witnessed an decrease today. The price of LRS silver stood at Rs 73,500 per kg and the price of 9999 silver stood at Rs 73,400.
It may be noted that the gold price can vary as per the MCX and dealer to dealer.
Gold is considered an important part of India's economy and social life due to its cultural significance, investment values, and its traditional role in weddings and festivals.
Notably, the gold and silver prices in India are influenced by a variety of factors, including global economic conditions, inflation rates, currency fluctuations, and local demand and supply dynamics.
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London, Sept 27: People say no one can love a girl like her father does. A father can go upto any limit to protect and express his love for his daughter. In such a strange show of affection a father from Britain has got under the needle not once but 667 times.
Mark Owen Evans inked his daughter Lucy's name 267 times on his back in 2017. This fetched him a Guinness World Record for "most tattoos of the same name on the body".
Evans pulled this painful feat to "celebrate Lucy's birth, as well as to raise funds for the hospital which provided care for her in the following months," said the Guinness Book of World Records.
This time he went a step further by getting 200 tattoos on each of his thighs. Evans deployed two tattoo artists who worked simultaneously on his thighs. It took a little over five and a half hours to get the pain inflicting feat accomplished.
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He remarked, "It felt weird - because two tattoo artists were doing it at once, the pain was kind of cancelled out. I love that I literally wear my record and take it everywhere."
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San Francisco, Sep 27: Meta is preparing to allow Threads users to delete their accounts without affecting their Instagram profiles by December.
Currently, there is no way for Threads users to delete their accounts without deleting their Instagram accounts.
At the ‘TechCrunch Disrupt’ event, Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy officer for product, said that the social network is “working on launching the actual deletion feature of a Threads account by December”.
“Technically, it was extremely challenging to allow deletion of a separate Threads account without also deleting your overall Instagram account out of the gate,” he was quoted as saying.
Meta paid “particular attention to ensuring the user could still exercise their deletion rights, by deactivating the account to sort of hide all content, setting it to private or deleting individual threads”.
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The social networking company is also working on integrating Threads with the “fediverse”.
According to latest data from Insider Intelligence, Threads will have 23.7 million active monthly users in the US by the end of 2023.
On the contrary, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok could have 177.9 million, 135.2 million, and 102.3 million US active monthly users, reslectiviley, by the end of the year.
Elon Musk’s X is forecast to have 56.1 million active monthly users in the US by the end of 2023.
Meanwhile, Threads has added a feature that will let users switch between multiple accounts without logging out on its mobile app.
Users will need to long press on the profile icon in the bottom right to swap accounts on its mobile apps. They will need to tap on the “Add profile” option after the long press to add a new profile.
This feature will make it easier for users to switch between work and personal profiles.
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