Neeraj Chopra LIVE Streaming, Men's Javelin Throw Final Olympics 2024

Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Paris Olympics 2024 Live Streaming: India's gold medal hopes at Paris Olympics 2024 lie once again on the shoulders of Neeraj Chopra, as he competes in the Men's Javelin Throw Final on Thursday night. The Olympic gold medalist from Tokyo 2020, Chopra will aim to become the first Indian athlete to win two individual gold medals at the Olympics. Despite concerns of an adductor niggle, Chopra finished top of the qualifying round, with a stunning throw of 89.34m - nearly 2m more than his gold-winning throw from three years ago.

Germany's Julian Weber, Grenada's Anderson Peters, Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, Kenya's Julius Yego and Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Jakub Vadlejch from Czech Republic will make sure Chopra does not have it easy.

When will the Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 take place?

Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 will take place on Thursday, August 8 (IST).

Where will the Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 be held?

Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 will be held at Stade de France in Paris.

What time will the Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 start?

Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 will start at 11:55 PM.

Which TV channels will live telecast the Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024?

Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 will be telecast live on the Sports18 network.

Where to follow the live streaming of the Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024?

Neeraj Chopra, Men's Javelin Throw Final, Olympics 2024 will be live streamed on the JioCinema app.

(All details are as per information provided by the broadcaster)

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Watch: Bengaluru Cop's Daring Act To Catch Thief On Motorcycle

In what seemed like a scene straight out of a Bollywood thriller, a Bengaluru policeman risked his life by diving before a two-wheeler to catch a thief. The Tuesday incident was captured on CCTV.

Constable Dodda Lingayya, dressed in civil clothes, approached a two-wheeler on a busy road and jumped before it, showed a video. Manjesh, who has 75 police cases pending against him, stopped the bike. Seconds later, he went full throttle and dragged the cop for around 20 metres as he held on to his collar.

The collar slipped off the cop's grip after a while, but he did not give up. Refusing to let him go, he was seen clinging on to the thief's leg as he kept riding. This made Manjesh lose control.

Two traffic cops standing nearby were soon alerted of the incident and rushed to his help. The thief overpowered one of them, but was tackled down by another.

By then, several commuters had gathered. They caught him and thrashed him, bringing the traffic to a standstill.

The police later said Manjesh had fled to Bengaluru from Tumakuru district and was on the police's radar for some time.

He has been arrested. The police have recovered Rs 10,000 cash and 130 grams gold jewellery from his possession.

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600 Bangladeshis Try To Enter Bengal, Stopped By Border Force

Even as the political turmoil and violence continues in Bangladesh, a group of nearly 600 people from the country were stopped from entering India at a border point in West Bengal by the Border Security Force, which has been on high alert since prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted and fled the country on Monday. 

Many members of the group - which tried to enter India on Wednesday, the eve of an interim government taking over in Bangladesh - pleaded with BSF personnel to be allowed in, claiming that they feared for their lives.

Officials said that the group tried to cross the border into India at the Dakshin Berubari village in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district.

"They appealed to us and asked to be let into the country, saying that they were afraid of being attacked and also feared for their lives. It was explained to them that it is not possible to let them enter in this fashion," said an official. 

While some people in the group dispersed, many were still at the border point late on Wednesday evening, hoping that they would eventually be allowed to cross over. 

A local resident told news agency PTI that the people gathered across the barbed wire were pleading to be allowed in. 

"But we are helpless. They recounted their horrific experiences," the resident said.

Trouble had been brewing in Bangladesh since before the January 7 elections, which was won by Sheikh Hasina's Awami League in a landslide, but the electoral exercise was widely seen as being far from free and fair.

Student protests began in June after a Bangladeshi high court reinstated 30 per cent reservation in government jobs for family members of freedom fighters and veterans from Bangladesh's 1971 War of Independence. The quota was later scaled back by the country's supreme court but Ms Hasina's handling of the situation and labelling of the protesters infuriated students. 

Protests continued with students demanding Ms Hasina step down and clashes between agitators and the police left over 100 dead and dozens injured across the country on Sunday.

Monday saw lakhs of students flooding the streets and heading towards the prime minister's official residence, Ganabhaban, forcing Ms Hasina to resign and flee. 

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will take oath on Thursday as the head of an interim government, Bangladesh's Army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman has announced. 

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Scientists Baffled By 2,000-Year-Old 'Computer' Discovered 120 Years Ago

Scientists have been puzzled by discovering a remarkably complex 2,000-year-old device known as the Antikythera mechanism, often called "the first computer." This astronomical calendar was found in a Greek shipwreck in 1901 and has confounded researchers ever since BGR reported.

The hand-powered instrument used a wind-up system to track the celestial movements of the sun, moon, and planets. It also functioned as a calendar, marking the phases of the Moon and the timing of eclipses. Despite its seemingly simple purpose, the mechanism was more advanced than any other tool created in the following thousand years.

Currently, the Antikythera mechanism is in 82 separate fragments, with only a third of its original structure remaining, including 30 corroded bronze gearwheels. Researchers from University College London used 3D computer modelling to uncover how the device worked, describing it as a "creation of genius."

Adam Wojcik, a materials scientist at UCL, stated, "We believe that our reconstruction fits all the evidence that scientists have gleaned from the extant remains to date."

The researchers theorized that the device tracked the movements of the sun, moon, and planets on concentric rings, reflecting the ancient Greek belief that these celestial bodies revolved around Earth. As explained in Scientific Reports, "Solving this complex 3D puzzle reveals a creation of genius-combining cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato's Academy, and ancient Greek astronomical theories."

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Earth Only Has 6 Continents, Claims Bold New Study

Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains the movement of Earth's lithospheric plates. This concept, first proposed in the early 20th century and solidified in the 1960s, revolutionised our understanding of Earth's geological processes. According to the theory, Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle, the rocky inner layer above the core. And now, a bold claim has come from a detailed study of the geological processes behind the break-up of European and North American continents.

A team of researchers from University of Derby, led by Dr Jordan Phethean, has claimed that Earth only has six continents, as per a report published in Earth.com.

The researchers have claimed that the break-up of the European and North American continents is not complete and still ongoing.

"The discovery indicates that the North America and Eurasian tectonic plates have not yet actually broken apart, as is traditionally thought to have happened 52 million years ago," the outlet quoted Dr Phethean as saying.

"They are, in fact, still stretching and in the process of breaking apart," he further said.

The new study is based on the study of Iceland, located between the Greenland Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. Till now, it was believed that Iceland was formed 60 million years ago due to friction in the mid-Atlantic ridge.

But the new study challenges this theory, claiming that Iceland and the Greenland Iceland Faroes Ridge (GIFR) also contain pieces of lost and submerged fragments from both the European and North American continents.

Buy proposing this, the researchers suggest that these landforms are not isolated, but interconnected components of a larger continental structure.

The research team has also given a new identity to the geological feature - 'Rifted Oceanic Magmatic Plateau' or ROMP.

"I like to think of this concept as the Earth Science equivalent of finding the Lost City of Atlantis; fragments of lost continent submerged beneath the sea and kilometres of thin lava flows," said Dr Phethean.

"By studying the evolution of rifting in the volcanic Afra region in Africa and comparing this to the behaviour of the Earth in Iceland, we are able to see that these two regions are evolving in very similar ways," he added.

The research is still in its conceptual phase. The team plans to explore volcanic rocks in Iceland for more concrete evidence of ancient continental crust, said the Earth.com report.

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Drinking Water From Plastic Bottles Can Increase Blood Pressure, Says Study

Our planet has been polluted by a number of things. One of them is microplastics - small particles of plastic found in the vast majority of our food and water supply. These have been dubbed as one of the most harmful substances for humans, affecting our health adversely. Now, a study published in the journal Microplastics has found that drinking from plastic bottles may increase blood pressure as a result of microplastics entering the bloodstream, according to New York Post. These have already been linked to heart health, hormone imbalance and even cancer.

The new study has been carried out by the Department of Medicine at Danube Private University in Austria, and published in the journal Microplastics. The team of researchers there a group of participants fluid that was not in a plastic bottle and found that their blood pressure decreases significantly.

"Remarkable trends were observed. The results of the study suggest, for the first time, that a reduction in plastic use could potentially lower blood pressure, probably due to the reduced volume of plastic particles in the bloodstream," the team wrote in the study, as per the Post report.

"Based on the findings, indicating a reduction in blood pressure with decreased plastic consumption, we hypothesize that plastic particles present in the bloodstream might contribute to elevated blood pressure," they further said.

They concluded that beverages packed in plastic bottles should be avoided.

A few years ago, scientists found that 5 grams of microplastics enters the blood stream of humans every week through fluids packaged in bottles.

Among the ways described to prevent microplastics from entering the body are boiling and filtering the tap water. These ways can reduce the presence of microplastics (and nanoplastics) by nearly 90 per cent.

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Watch: Vinesh Holds Back Tears After Clinching Olympics 2024 Final Berth

She grappled on the streets with an "unjust system" without a care in the world and on Tuesday Vinesh Phogat brought a lot of that panache to the mat as well, taking down one big name after another to become India's first woman wrestler to enter the finals of the Olympic Games. The 29-year-old from Haryana defeated Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba 5-0 in the semifinals where she used brain and brawn in equal measure to be assured of a at least a silver in her third Olympic outing.

This was after she was stretchered off on her debut in Rio 2016 and had a forgettable outing in Tokyo four years later.

"Tomorrow is an important day, will talk then," she told the waiting media before vanishing from the sight to prepare for her summit battle against American Sarah Ann Hildebrandt.

Watch: Vinesh Phogat holds back tears after winning semi-final

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On the day, she beat world No. 1 and reigning Olympic champion Yui Sasaki during the dying moments of their pre-quarterfinal bout, handing the legendary Japanese her first defeat in 83 bouts.

If the first six minutes were a shocker for the wrestling world, the next six minutes against 2018 European champion Oksana Livach of Ukraine were an assurance of her class were she made a mockery of her opponent just when she needed to.

The last six minutes on the day against Lopez were another master-class in tactical acumen where she was a tigress on the prowl waiting for that one mistake where she could get the single-leg hold of her opponent.

It was a very lonely battle as it wasn't just about winning against the opponent on the mat but also about fighting a way more bitter battle off it.

Her character and credibility came in for questioning, and then there was a knee surgery less than a year before Olympics which had the Doubting Thomases wanting her to fail.

But for 18 minutes on Tuesday, Vinesh didn't have the option of failing. After all, she came here as a representative of all those women who have been severely wronged by the wrestling establishment.

When she won against Susaki, she let out a cry of relief, laying flat on back but when she entered the final, the most poignant picture was that of her teary-eyed Belgian coach Woller Akos, who has also been her confidant in this battle.

The last 18 months have been nothing short of a roller-coaster for the feisty lady, who became the face of a protest against former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment.

Pulled by the hair at India gate during the protest, she became the proverbial enfant terrible for the establishment. Her performance on Tuesday is a slap for the parent body that didn't stand by her.

The semi-final bout saw Vinesh maintaining her balance, not allowing the Cuban to get her leg. Her feet were positioned perfectly to avert any crisis.

A point earned for passivity in the first round helped her immensely but she herself got a warning for not trying enough in the second round.

However, Vinesh perhaps loves being cornered and just like the Susaki bout, she fought back with vengeance for Lopez's right leg and pinned her down for two points and choked her with leg hold to clinch the match.

With this, Vinesh has found her silver lining but she is in search of a golden hue.

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