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Dutta also urged Panda to Bhubaneswar, August 7: consult with the Water It took more than six years Resources department of for the Odisha government the state government during and the National Highways the design phase of the Authority of India (NHAI) Coastal Highway project. ARM to finalise the alignment of Implementation of the the much-awaited Coastal highway is considered to Highway passing through be one of the top priority in- Neeraj Chopra the state. frastructure projects of the The 382-km-long highway state keeping in view its secures India’s first will pass through Tangi socio-economic impact and (NH-16), Brahmagiri, Puri, connectivity to the nearby Konark, Astarang, Naugaon, ports, he said. track and field Paradip Port, Ratanpur, The NHAI officials have Satabhaya, Dhamra, been directed to expedite medal at Basudevpur, Talapada, the work for early comple- Chandipur, Chandaneswar tion of the project. Olympics and Digha. “Now, all the bottlenecks The Works department of the project have been has informed the NHAI cleared. The project will be about its consent to the above taken up in two phases. We alignment of the project are trying to complete the Saturday. tendering process for at least The alignment has been one stretch by next March so proposed mostly as green that work can start by June,” field project avoiding forests, Panda told Orissa POST. Balukhand Wildlife In April 2015, Union Sanctuary, Bhitarkanika Road Transport Minister National Park and the tur- Nitin Gadkari had an- tle nesting grounds, so as nounced the Coastal to minimise its impact on the Highway project during 87.58 mtr environment, sources said. one of his visits to the Earlier, it was proposed state. After that the project that the Coastal Highway was delayed due to a po- would start from Gopalpur litical slugfest between the cross Satapada to Chilika BJD and the BJP. lake. Now it will start from Later, the Ministry of WRESTLER BAJRANG Tangi on NH-16 and avoid Environment, Forest and the eco-sensitive area of Climate Change refused CLINCHES BRONZE PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Just like in the qualification round Chilika lake. The alignment to accord approval to the With a gold, 2 silver, three days back, Chopra began with of the 430-km-long high- alignment of the high- CHIBA (JAPAN): He did not live up to Tokyo, August 7: Star javelin thrower 4 bronze in Tokyo, India a bang by sending the spear to a dis- way in Odisha was modified way. Originally, it was be- the sky-high expectations but Neeraj Chopra on Saturday became tance of 87.03m and then improved it to 382 km. tween Gopalpur and India’s Bajrang Punia will return only the second Indian to win an in- sees its largest Olympic to 87.58m, his best of the day which The state government has Digha. Now, the coastal from Tokyo with a bronze medal dividual gold in the Olympics, out-per- none in the field could match. His asked the NHAI to include highway will start from on Olympic debut after medal haul ever, betters forming the field by some distance to third throw was a poor 76.76m; he the NH from Brahmagiri to Tangi in Khurda district outwitting Daulet Niyazbekov tally of 6 in London 2012 in the play-off here Saturday. If immortalise himself as the first then fouled his next two attempts be- Satapada in the project. and continue till Digha in his defence let him down in the track-and-field Games medal-win- fore a final effort of 84.24m. Further, adequate cross West Bengal. semifinal against Hazi Aliev, ner for the country. hard-to-reach club of India's indi- By the time the Nordic javelin left drainage structures should A total of 150 structures Bajrang’s smart attacking The 23-year-old son of a farmer vidual gold winners in the showpiece. his right hand in his second attempt, be constructed to allow pas- will be constructed for the moves made him a 8-0 winner from Khandra village near Panipat in With this, the country surpassed the he knew that it was going the far- sage or runoff, Works project. Those would in- against Kazakhstan's Niyazbekov, Haryana produced a second round previous best haul of six medals thest among all and he raised both his Additional Secretary clude 20 major bridges, 69 to whom he had lost in the throw of 87.58m in the finals to stun achieved in the 2012 London Games. arms in jubilation, confident that the Hemanta Kumar Dutta minor bridges, four rail semifinals of the 2019 World the athletics world and end India's Apart from Chopra’s gold, India has job had been done. wrote to the Chief General overbridges, five vehicle Championship. The medal-winning 100-year wait for a track and field won to silver and four bronze medals. After the end of the event, Chopra Manager (Technical) of underpasses and two fly- performance saved 27-year-old Bajrang medal in the Olympics. Czech Republic throwers Jakub ran towards the Indian contingent NHAI Ram Prasad Panda overs, sources said. and the Indian wrestling contingent from Brimming with confidence with Vadlejch (86.67m) and Vitezslav Vesely in the stands with raised fists and embarrassment since the wrestlers had hardly any nerves on display, Chopra (85.44m) took the silver and bronze re- wrapped himself with the tri-colour entered Tokyo with high expectations. walked in like a rockstar to make the spectively. Chopra came into the final to run a short lap of honour. After medal-favourite Vinesh Phogat’s Tokyo Games India's best ever Olympic as a medal contender after topping the Season leader and pre-tournament J&J Covid vax approved shock quarterfinal exit and Bajrang’s below outing in what was the country's final qualification round on Wednesday gold favourite Johannes Vetter of par show in the first three matches, a pall of competitive outing at the ongoing with a stunning first round throw of Germany, who had thrown the spear gloom had descended on Indian wrestling for emergency use edition. 86.59m. to 90m plus distances seven times be- contingent. However, the three-time medallist at world championships rose to His was the country’s seventh medal But few would have thought that he tween April and June, was shock- the occasion with a comfortable win. and first gold in this Olympics and he would bludgeon his way to gold in ingly eliminated after the first three AGENCIES MORE P12 joined shooter Abhinav Bindra (2008 such a dominant fashion at the grand- throws as he was placed ninth with Beijing Games) in an elite and very est of the stage. a best effort of 82.52m. MORE P12 New Delhi, August 7: Johnson & Johnson’s sin- gle-dose Covid-19 vaccine has been given emergency IRREGULAR by MANJUL use approval in India, Union Rlys sets eyes on hydrogen-powered trains Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said Saturday. He said this will further SUCCESSFUL TRIALS CAN MEAN CONVERSION OF ALL DIESEL TRAINS TO HYDROGEN boost the country’s collective fight against the novel coro- AGENCIES using this method. The trial of one rake navirus infection. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, is being done in Germany and the “India expands its vac- Russia’s Sputnik V, Moderna New Delhi, August 7: The Indian trial of other in Poland. cine basket! Johnson and and now Johnson & Johnson Railways has begun work on hydro- The bidding date for hydrogen fuel Johnson's single-dose Covid- (J&J). gen-powered trains. An official state- cell-based DEMU rake will start from 19 vaccine is given approval J&J earlier had sought ment said that the Indian Railways has September 21, 2021 and the closing for Emergency Use in India. approval to conduct phase- invited bids for hydrogen fuel cell- date will be October 5, 2021. A pre-bid Now India has five EUA vac- 3 clinical trial of its vaccine based technology by retrofitting on the conference will be held August 17. cines. This will further boost on approximately 600 par- Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) The official said that after suc- our nation’s collective fight ticipants in two age groups Before Olympics they wanted me to be a in 89 km Sonipat-Jind section of cessful implementation of this pilot against #Cpvod-19," the min- – those aged 18 and below 60 cricketer. Now, I may end up as a boxer, Northern Railway. project, all the rolling stock which ister tweeted. years and those aged 60 years wrestler, hockey player or javelin thrower! Simply put, the Indian Railways will operate on diesel fuel after elec- “The US-based pharma- and above – to evaluate the wants to see whether existing diesel trification can be planned to be run ceutical company had ap- safety, reactogenicity and run trains can be retrofitted to use hy- on hydrogen fuel.