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Hakimpet sports school to become centre of excellence

Hakimpet's Regional Sports School has been named one of the first eight Khelo India State Centres of Excellence (KISCE) under Sports Authority of India's flagship talent identification and nurturing programme, ‘Khelo India’. The Regional Sports School will be upgraded with a budget of ₹13.03 crore in four years.

The support will be in the form of infrastructure upgradation, setting up of sports science centre and soft component in the form of quality coaches and sports science human resource like physiotherapists and conditioning expert. The academy will also have high-performance manager to ensure quality sports science input and performance management, said Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The Sports Ministry is upgrading existing sporting infrastructure in each State and Union Territory (UT) and creating KISCEs. Each KISCE will be extended sports-specific support in 14 Olympic sports, of which one State or UT will be given support for a maximum of three sports. In the first leg, eight KISCEs have been identified, including the one in Hakimpet, and others are to be set up in Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Karnataka and Kerala, he said.

KISCEs state-of-the-art centres would ensure athletes were given highest training and these centres become best facilities to train athletes in the priority sport for which they were earmarked, he said.

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Louisville To Announce $12 Million Settlement In Breonna Taylor Shooting - NYT

The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce a $12 million financial settlement on Tuesday with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in March, the New York Times reported.

  • Last Updated: September 15, 2020, 11:00 PM IST

The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce a $12 million financial settlement on Tuesday with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in March, the New York Times reported.

The settlement to end a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by her family will be accompanied by police reforms, including a requirement that commanders approve search warrants before they are put to a judge, the Times said, citing three unidentified people with knowledge of the matter.

Taylor’s death, alongside that of George Floyd, a Black man killed in May by a white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck, gave rise to one of the largest protest movements in U.S. history, with daily demonstrations in cities ever since.

Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was killed in March when Louisville police forced their way into her apartment using a so-called ‘no-knock’ arrest warrant that did not require them to announce themselves.

In June, the Louisville Metro Police Department fired one of the three officers involved, detective Brett Hankison, who is white, for displaying “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he fired ten bullets into Taylor’s apartment.

The two other officers have been reassigned to administrative duties.

None of the three has been criminally charged, but the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Black Republican, is expected to bring the case before a grand jury this week, according to local media reports.

The attorney for Taylor’s family, Ben Crump, is expected to join Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Taylor’s relatives at Fischer’s office at 2 p.m. ET (1800 GMT) to announce the settlement.

A spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department declined to comment, referring questions to the mayor’s office. A spokeswoman for the mayor did not respond to a request for comment.

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