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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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Topic: Hima Das

Hima Das’ ‘gold’ in CWG exposes ignorance about all things not cricket

The ace sprinter’s phenomenal win at the junior world championships in Finland in 2018 is being lapped up as a ‘gold’ in the ongoing CWG.

‘One of my biggest dreams comes true’ — sprinter Hima Das gets inducted into Assam Police

The induction took place in the presence of Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal in a ceremony that was attended by top functionaries of the state government.

Doping, Hima Das gold rush, Dutee Chand world record — highs, lows of athletics in 2019

It was a barren year in terms of medals as the world of athletics was mired in doping & age-fraud controversies, leaving the sport with very little to celebrate.

In Hima-Dutee euphoria, we’re forgetting India’s fastest rising sprinter: Mohd Anas Yahiya

Anas has qualified for September’s World Championships, but even he, like Hima Das & Dutee Chand, is some way from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.

This is how India’s 2018 Asian Games mixed relay silver turned into gold

India’s 4x400 relay squad’s medal was upgraded to gold after Bahraini runner Oluwakemi Adekoya tested positive for doping and was disqualified.

Modi lauds Hima Das, Shashi Tharoor’s Ghalib goof-up & Priyanka Chaturvedi’s ‘tauba tauba’

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

The Haryana-Kerala domination of Indian sport is complete, this Asiad shows

Trio of the newest female stars — Dutee Chand, Hima Das and Swapna Barman — has emerged from India’s east-by-northeast.

Obsession with Asian Games’ medal tally shows India’s breathtaking apathy towards sports

Indians need to care about sports, not just the medal tally.

Modi loses 3 lakh followers on Twitter and Nawaz Sharif gets arrested in Pakistan

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Lok Sabha elections for breakfast and a diluted liquor law

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.