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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Sportspersons

Armed forces’ ‘sports for wellness’ rule cost India. Time to bring back ‘gladiator sportsmen’

Until 1970s, Indian armed forces allowed units to spare military training for some men to help them focus only on sports. Then came the outcry to ban sports competitions.

India must think beyond glory of medal winners. Many things still holding us back in sports

Today's sportspersons are rarely in the game because of choice. Winning medals will remain a matter of luck if India doesn't create a sporting culture beyond cricket.

Fiercely Female: Story of Dutee Chand who broke ground as India’s 1st openly homosexual athlete

Published by Westland Books, ‘Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story' by Sundeep Mishra will be released on 22 June on ThePrint’s ‘SoftCover’.

Hanuma Vihari to Sunil Chhetri — Indian sportspersons are finally showing up during crisis

Yes, #IndiaAgainstPropaganda was an embarrassment. But move away from the mainstream and you’ll see many sportspersons backing worthy causes.

Observers are the moral conscience of Indian sports

It is ideal to have legends like Mary Kom and Sushil Kumar as observers, but only once they retire from the game.

On Camera

No other city is like Gurugram—’so mismanaged, yet so highly spoken of’

Gurugram has a problem of structural abandonment, whether you’re a domestic worker speaking an alien language, or the much-celebrated CEO of the new hot startup.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.