Ø It was a brave attempt by P.V. Sindhu to join shooter Abhinav
Bindra as an individual Olympic gold medal-winning Indian, but found the
two-time World champion Carolina Marin of Spain a hard nut to crack in an
intense final at the Rio Olympics on Friday and had to settle for silver. In
the process, Sindhu became the first woman from India to clinch an Olympic
silver, and the second to win a badminton medal after Saina Nehwal’s bronze
(London 2012). She followed in the footsteps of Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
(Athens 2004), Sushil Kumar and Vijay Kumar (both London 2012), who won silver medals.
Ø Turkey on Friday reached out to India over its concerns about the
network of Sufi leader Fethullah Gulen, which it holds responsible for the July
16 coup attempt. The discussion on the Gulen network was the highlight of
wide-ranging exchange between the visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
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