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This Article is From Aug 29, 2016

On National Sports Day, 4 Jharkand Baby Girls Named After Rio Stars

On National Sports Day, 4 Jharkand Baby Girls Named After Rio Stars
The newborns have been named after P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar and Deepika Kumari.
Jamshedpur: On the occasion of National Sports Day, four newborn girls were today named after India's Olympic medalists P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, gymnast Dipa Karmakar and archer Deepika Kumari.

The request to name the girls after the four Olympic performers was made by the deputy collector, in-charge of Chief Minister Raghbubar Das's camp office, in Jamshedpur to the fathers of the baby girls who were born this morning in a government hospital, MGM College.

The jubilant fathers were Manoj Kumar Das, Mahesh Singh, Sibu Karmakar and Sameer Tantubai who told reporters that they would help their daughters to be sportswomen.

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