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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicCommonwealth Games

Topic: Commonwealth Games

Olympics are a ‘coming out party’ for countries on a per capita high. India’s a strong bet for 2036

Though hosting the games doesn't come cheap, India won't suffer the fate of Greece, whose 2004 Olympics incurred debt that was partly responsible for financial crisis 4 yrs later.

Australia’s Victoria to pay $243 million for withdrawing as 2026 Commonwealth Games host

The payout comes after another blow was dealt to the long-running event when Canada's Alberta province earlier this month withdrew its support for a bid for the 2030 Games.

BJP called CWG a colonial legacy in 2010. Now Gujarat is bidding to host the 2026 game

Australia withdrew from hosting the 2023 games due to financial concerns. Can Ahmedabad afford to forego better roads, schools, hospitals at the cost of organising the games?

Our take on Manipur rape video, Teesta Setalvad bail, and Seema Haider case—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

‘God chose me for sports’—How MC Mary Kom fought sceptics to punch her way to the top

In 'Iconic Indians', authors Sanjeev Sanyal and Rajesh Singh chronicle the lives of 75 remarkable people who played an important role in transforming India.

Shooting returns, wrestling dropped from Commonwealth Games 2026, golf set to make debut

The list of sports released by the Commonwealth Games Federation Wednesday didn't include archery as well. The next edition of the games will be held in Australia's Victoria in 2026.

Olympics to Commonwealth—why mega sports events can have a lasting positive impact

By embedding legacy planning into sporting event bid planning, events can live on long after the final whistle. It has important implications for the economy.

Two Pakistani boxers ‘go missing’ in Birmingham after 2022 Commonwealth Games

Boxers Suleman Baloch & Nazeer Ullah were reported missing a few hours before the Pakistani squad, which consisted of five boxers and four officials, was to depart for Islamabad.

‘Catch them young’ and more foreign coaches: Army’s game plan after CWG success

The Pune-based Army Sports Institute (ASI), one of the premier five sports training institutes of the force, has worked out a long-term athlete development programme.

Makeshift gym, no money for chicken, odd jobs—What’s behind Achinta Sheuli’s CWG gold

In West Bengal’s Deulpur village, Achinta Sheuli’s mother is happy people are finally ‘enquiring about us’. Brother Alok wants Achinta to ‘win Olympics gold next’.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.