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NRI SUV driver arrested for hit-and-run that killed 114-year-old marathon legend Fauja Singh

Eyewitnesses say Singh was struck at high speed by the SUV while crossing the national highway. Police register an FIR for rash driving and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

‘Turbaned Tornado’ Fauja Singh took to running to cope with grief, and never looked back

At the prime of his running career, Fauja Singh finished the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 5 hours and 40 minutes in the over-90 category—his personal best.

A new wave of Marathon runners is reshaping the culture of fitness in India

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Mumbai Marathon: Two participants, including 74-year-old, collapse and die, 22 hospitalised

The deceased have been identified as Suvradeep Banerjee (40) from Kolkata and Rajendra Bora (74) from Mumbai.

It’s ‘because of Sardar Patel that we have today’s India’, says Amit Shah, flags off ‘Run for Unity’

The ‘Run for Unity’, to commemorate Sardar Patel’s 148th birth anniversary, was flagged off from Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in Delhi.

Gangster on the Run — new book tells story of a reformed criminal who now runs marathons

Puja Changoiwala’s Gangster on the Run, by HarperCollins, will be released on 30 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.

People who want to stop sports in Delhi’s polluted winter air need to speak up in March

Cancelling sporting events is not the solution. I have never seen anyone standing with placards in local parks saying ‘don’t walk today, you’ll die’.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

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.