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State of southern discomfort

India, Aug. 22 -- Government-to-government meetings are typically sober affairs focussed on the minutiae of administration. But in recent years, meetings of the southern zonal council have grabbed hea... Read More


A new playbook for sports governance

India, Aug. 22 -- The enactment of the National Sports Governance Act 2025 and the subsequent notification of the National Sports Board (NSB) and National Sports Tribunal (NST) Rules in 2026 mark a co... Read More


Democratic transmission of street-to-statute is breaking

India, Aug. 22 -- This summer, across India, the same pattern of protest emerged with almost nothing but method in common. Marina Beach in Chennai filled with NEET protesters, aspirants gathered at pu... Read More


While you were busy doomscrolling, your data got dearer by 20%

India, Aug. 22 -- In April, Reliance Jio quietly changed the terms of its Rs.195 recharge pack. The 90-day pack would now have a validity of 30 days. In other words, a customer who paid once for three... Read More


3 fall to death

Pune, Aug. 22 -- A 19-year-old man died by suicide after jumping from a hilltop in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district on Friday afternoon, while his father also fell to his death in an a... Read More


Kuldeep on thin ice, again

Mumbai, Aug. 22 -- The Galle Test match was Kuldeep Yadav's first outside India for 44 months. His last outing outside the sub-continent was back in 2019 at Sydney, when then head coach Ravi Shastri f... Read More


Flight and dip make Suthar a rarity in slam-bang cricket

MUMBAI, Aug. 22 -- If the Sri Lanka batters are to flourish in the second Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club, they must somehow ensure Manav Suthar doesn't start well. Going by what we saw at Galle, on... Read More


Hosts Netherlands exploit India's defensive frailties

Mumbai, Aug. 22 -- This was always going to be a difficult match for the Indian women's hockey team. A game against the mighty Netherlands. The last time the two teams met in a major competition, the ... Read More


Satwik-Chirag hit the Chinese wall

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty's fight fizzled out in the quarter-finals as they went down tamely to Chinese third seeds Chang Wang and Liang Wei Keng 21-18, 21-9 at t... Read More


Inspirational Treesa-Gayatri keep the medal streak going

NEW DELHI, Aug. 22 -- The roar inside the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Friday was deafening, a release of tension that had been building through what was an enthralling contest. When Chinese fourth... Read More