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Saturday, July 18, 2026
TopicNational sports

Topic: national sports

Indian track athletes are also Instagram stars. Endorsing sunscreen, protein powder, cars

Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold showed athletes a different possibility, beyond settling down for the ultimate middle-class dream—a permanent government job.

Rust, rot & 2 dead athletes — Haryana’s sports powerhouse story has faultlines

From Rohtak to Jhajjar, rusted poles, broken courts and vanished accountability show how a sporting powerhouse is failing its youngest athletes.

National board to RTI whip, how Centre plans to reform sports governance with new bill amid Olympics bid

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’.

Indian steeplechaser Avinash Sable betters own record after learning ‘not to take sports so seriously’

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.

Court takes over kabaddi too, appoints retired judge to pick national team

The judge was appointed an observer by the Delhi High Court after questions were raised over the Asiad selection process.

On Camera

Govt looms behind every transaction like an invisible monster: K H Subramaniam

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.

Gujarat tops NITI Aayog’s first Investment Friendliness Index, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu follow

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.

DIA effect: Canada steams ahead with TKMS for new submarines, India’s P 75I still in works

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.

BJP’s push for one-party state has a flip side. It could be Congress’s chance for revival

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.