In a podcast, the badminton star and her husband & fellow shuttler Parupalli Kashyap said other sports need more visibility and India still lacks a strong sporting culture.
Modi also urged people of the country to cheer for the athletes competing in the Olympics, which starts 26 July. India will look to outdo its tally of 7 medals from 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Modi congratulates people for making the 2024 polls a success with 65 crore people exercising their voting rights. He also praises EC for its handling of polling exercise.
Though hosting the games doesn't come cheap, India won't suffer the fate of Greece, whose 2004 Olympics incurred debt that was partly responsible for financial crisis 4 yrs later.
4 other games — flag football, lacrosse, squash and baseball-softball — also receive approval of International Olympic Committee, which is looking to tap into new global audiences.
The flame will be lit at Greece's ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Games, and will remain in the country until its departure to France from Athens on 27 April.
This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
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.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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