Top wrestlers met Sports Minister Anurag Thakur for six hours Wednesday and were assured of a resolution to several demands, but there was no word on Singh’s arrest.
While the rhetoric from nationalist ramparts has been about ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, Modi govt's silence has shown that gender equity and safety in India are not universal concerns.
Their clarification came after news circulated that the two wrestlers had withdrawn from the agitation against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan SIngh. Both wrestlers tweeted to deny the reports.
Making its debut at the 1900 Paris Olympics, India has won a total of 35 medals across 24 Games. Kolkata-born Norman Pritchard is viewed as country's first medallist.
From ensuring there were enough mattresses, to making sure no rabble rousers entered the temporary den of wrestlers, these people are key to the protest ecosystem.
Former Union minister Choudhary Birendra Singh said he met BJP chief J.P. Nadda around Karnataka assembly polls and the latter told him he would speak to home and sports ministries.
The raucous and angry crowd in Muzaffarnagar was a sea of turbaned men who came to emergency mahapanchayat. They are new custodians of sporting honour.
Proposed rally was seen as the WFI chief and BJP MP's attempt to consolidate support of a section of seers in wake of several women wrestlers accusing him of sexual harassment.
While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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