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Saturday, October 25, 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

The Press is not artillery — neither for the ruling party nor the Opposition: Sachin Sen

The Press in a liberal democracy has to be a forum for the expression of different points of view. It must not suppress, taint or adulterate news, wrote Sachin Sen in 1960.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.