On August 11, 2021, a Himachal Road Transport Corporation bus carrying 28 passengers, and a truck, among other vehicles, travelling on the National Highway 5 were hit by large boulders and muck in a landslip tragedy.

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With seven medals, including a goldd, this was India’s best-ever tally at Olympics. After a 100-year drought, Neeraj Chopra clinched gold in an athletics event, and became the second individual to win a gold for the country. Further, after 41 years, the men’s hockey team clinched a medal at the Olympic Games. Sindhu became the only Indian player to win a medal in two consecutive Olympics. (Anticlockwise from top) javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra (gold), wrestlers Ravi Dahiya (silver) and Bajrang Punia (bronze), boxer Lovlina Borgohain (bronze), badminton player PV Sindhu (bronze), weightlifter Mirabai Chanu (silver) and the Indian men's hockey team (bronze).

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