16-year-old Indian girl creates history by swimming across The English Channel

Jul 30, 2024

A 16-year-old girl, Jiya Rai, with autism spectrum disorder, successfully swam across the English Channel, a distance of 34 km, in 17 hours and...

Autism-affected girl creates history, swims from Sri Lanka to Dhanushkodi in 13 hrs

Mar 21, 2022

Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 21 : Jiya Rai, an Indian para-swimmer suffering from autism, has set a new record by crossing the Bakjala...

India achieves feat of 2 billion COVID vaccine doses

Jul 17, 2022

New Delhi [India], July 17 : As India achieved the feat of 2 billion COVID vaccine doses on Sunday, a journey which took 18...

Jiya Rai, a navy school student, awarded Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar

Jan 24, 2022

New Delhi [India], January 24 : A 12-year-old girl, who is studying at Navy Children School has been awarded the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal...

Thailand's Thipatcha Putthawong achieves rare feat of taking four-in-four

Jul 15, 2023

Thailand's Thipatcha Putthawong has made her way to the history books as she became the seventh cricketer to pick four wickets in four balls...

Match Referee Andy Pycroft achieves unique feat at Boxing Day Test

Dec 26, 2024

Former Zimbabwe captain Andy Pycroft on Thursday became the fourth person to officiate in 100 men's Test matches as a match referee, according to...