Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold showed athletes a different possibility, beyond settling down for the ultimate middle-class dream—a permanent government job.
National Sports Governance Bill introduced in Lok Sabha noting that ‘it is imperative that sports governance landscape undergo a positive transformation to bring better outcomes’.
Sable completed men’s 3,000 m steeplechase at Paris Diamond League in 8:09.91, surpassing his own national record set at 2022 Commonwealth Games by over a second.
Extent and scope of excise duty is so wide that nothing arrives on the shop counter from which the government has not extracted its unearned profit, wrote K H Subramaniam in 1979.
The report evaluates 28 states and 8 UTs on 84 indicators across eight pillars, with Niti Aayog pitching it as a reform tool rather than just a ranking exercise.
Ottawa has handed over execution functions of critical defence projects to a CEO-led organisation for reducing procurement timelines and making it solely accountable for outcomes.
Even if it’s a municipal election someplace where the Congress is a cipher, you will find BJP targeting it. It’s an acknowledgement that Modi sees Congress, however battered, as his only likely challenger.
Indian track athletes are Instagram superstars with millions of followers. However, the pertinent question to ask here is whether they are using their fame and celebrity status to popularise their sport and inspire youngsters to take to it. Unfortunately, the answer to that question is a big NO.
For most of them, half the day goes into digital content creation. And why wouldn’t they? It pays good – maybe even better than what they get from the govt and other services whom they represent.
Indian track athletes are Instagram superstars with millions of followers. However, the pertinent question to ask here is whether they are using their fame and celebrity status to popularise their sport and inspire youngsters to take to it. Unfortunately, the answer to that question is a big NO.
For most of them, half the day goes into digital content creation. And why wouldn’t they? It pays good – maybe even better than what they get from the govt and other services whom they represent.