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Video PlayerClose NEW DELHI, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- India's Supreme Court Thursday rejected all review petitions into Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute verdict, officials said. The top court rejected all 18 petitions seeking a review of its Nov. 9 verdict on the dispute. The petitions were heard by a five-member bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde in-chamber and not in open court, as is normal procedure. The bench rejected all 18 review petitions, out of which nine had been filed by parties who were part of the earlier litigation and the other nine were filed by third parties. The petitioners included the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. "The bench held that the review petitions were lacking in merits," an official said. Last month a five-member bench, headed by then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, delivered a unanimous verdict in favor of Hindus by granting them disputed land where the Babri Masjid (Muslim mosque) once stood. As per the verdict, Muslims … [Read more...] about India’s top court dismisses all review petitions in Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi verdict

Video PlayerClose BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- 28 players competed for eight final tickets in the qualification competition for women's snowboard big air on Thursday, with China sending four players who all failed to reach the final. The day's youngest athlete, 15-year-old Kokomo Murase of Japan, claimed first place with a total score of 173.00, followed by Zoi Sadowski Synnott, who represented New Zealand, who powered to the final with 165.75 points. In third place was American Jamie Anderson with 162.75 points, and after her was Reira Iwabuchi, a Japanese with 162.25 points. Defending champion Anna Gasser from Austria ranked fifth with 159.25 points, while Canadian Laurie Blouin ranked sixth behind Anna Gasser by a point. The final two seats in the final are for Julia Marino of the US and Miyabi Onitsuka of Japan, with 155.25 and 152.00 points, respectively. Chinese athlete Ren Ziyan scored 75.25 to rank 21st. Li Dongyu scored 51.75 (23rd), Zhang Tong scored 34.50 (25th) and Zhai … [Read more...] about Chinese athletes fail to reach final in 2019 women’s snowboard big air

Video PlayerClose MAKUENI, Kenya, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed and 63 others injured in a grisly road accident involving two commuter buses along Nairobi-Mombasa highway, the police confirmed on Thursday. Joseph Ole Napeiyan, the divisional police commander, said both vehicles belong to Modern Coast and collided near Salama area. Modern Coast is a regional bus company which plies major routes in the East African region. Napeiyan said the incident which occurred at 2 a.m. came barely a day after a similar accident in the same area which also involved a Modern Coast bus and another from Tahmeed bus company. "We have started investigating the case of the incident," said the police commander, adding that one bus was headed to Nairobi while the other was going to the coastal city of Mombasa. Road accidents still continue to occur despite stringent traffic rules which were introduced by the government to help curb the road carnage. An estimated 3,000 Kenyans die in … [Read more...] about 7 killed, 63 others injured in road accident in eastern Kenya

Video PlayerClose KRASNOYARSK, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Short-track skating powerhouses South Korea delivered a dominant performance on Tuesday, finishing 1-2 in the men's 500m to claim the second short-track title at the 29th Winter Universiade. Park Ji-won, who clashed with his teammate to lose the gold medal in the men's 1,500m the day before, did not make the same mistake twice. The 22-year-old teamed up with compatriot Lim Yong-jin to overcome local star Konstantin Ivliev on the final lap to grab both gold and silver. Ivliev took the lead at the start, but Park and Lim remained in close attention. On the final lap, Park succeeded in taking the lead, and Lim also managed to overtake Ivliev, who had led for most of the race, but the South Korean duo proved to be the better skaters on the day. The women's 500m was won by France's Aurelie Noelie Monvoisin. Ekaterina Efremenkova from Russia and South Korea's Park Ji-yun took home silver and bronze respectively. It was the second … [Read more...] about South Korea wins second short track gold at Winter Universiade

Video PlayerClose KRASNOYARSK, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Li Zhonglin scored 87.77 points to take the silver in the freestyle skiing men's aerials on Sunday, awarding China its first medal at the 2019 Winter Universiade. Maxim Burov of Russia took the gold with 119.91 points and his compatriot Ruslan Katmanov got the bronze. Li, who won the event two years ago in Almaty, faced great challenge from the home skiers here on Sunday. Li delivered two stable jumps, while Burov completed more difficult jumps to take the title. The 20-year-old world champion Burov was prominent enough to take the victory as he staged two most difficult jumps with perfect finish in both of them. "It's a satisfactory result and I feel honored to stand on the same podium with Maxim," said Li. "I didn't do well in the qualification so I tried my best to stay stable in the final." Chinese Guo Ziming finished his first jump with 93.93 point for the second place. However, his final jump resulted in a … [Read more...] about Li awards China first medal in 2019 Winter Universiade