Dipa Karmakar is the first Indian gymnast to qualify for the vault finals in Olympics. She finished eighth in the qualifying at Rio de Janeiro. Dipa Karmakar in action during the qualifying of artistic gymnastics at Rio Olympics. Dipa Karmakar, a day after becoming the first Indian gymnast to qualify for vaults final, told NDTV in an exclusive interview that she is not afraid of giving her best at the big stage. “Why should I be under pressure?... 

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil’s government has warned that it will shoot down any unidentified aircraft that violates the protected airspace around facilities of the Olympics Games at Rio in August. “We are not playing,” said Defence Minister Raul Jungmann while introducing the Olympics Games security plan at a press conference at Rio on Wednesday. The plan involves security provided by 41,000 soldiers during the event, 21,000 of them...