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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicArjuna Award

Topic: Arjuna Award

Arjuna awardees Kartar Singh, Sajjan Cheema & others to return awards in support of farmers

Several prominent sports personalities said they will head to Delhi on 5 December and place their awards outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Shuttler HS Prannoy slams Arjuna Award recommendation, questions Sameer Verma’s achievements

Without taking Verma’s name, 2018 CWG gold medallist Prannoy says ‘guy who wasn’t there’ has been recommended. But Verma has been no slouch on the court either.

Manipur is upset its traditional leirum phee is being sold as ‘Modi gamcha’ in UP

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Paralympics medallist Deepa Malik nominated for Khel Ratna, Ravindra Jadeja for Arjuna Award

Malik is the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Paralympics. Cricketer Poonam Yadav is among 19 others nominated for the Arjuna Award.

On Camera

How Saba Azad became the accidental voice of Bengal’s language protests

Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.