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A night of upsets at Diamond League meeting in Lausanne
Rediff.com27 Aug 2021Olympic champions Elaine Thompson-Herah, Selemon Barega, Armand Duplantis, Steven Gardiner, Emmanuel Korir, Hansle Parchment and Karsten Warholm were all beaten.
Tokyo Olympics Medals Table: USA top; India 48th
Rediff.com12 Aug 2021The medal tally at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Kenya's Kipchoge wins back-to-back marathon golds
Rediff.com8 Aug 2021The World record holder has now won four Olympic medals overall, having also taken 5,000m silver in 2008 and bronze in 2004.
PICS: Neeraj, Hassan leave their mark at Tokyo Games
Rediff.com7 Aug 2021A summary of Saturday's Track and Field action at the Tokyo Olympics.
Athletics: Hassan kicks off treble bid with 5,000m gold
Rediff.com2 Aug 2021Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn capped a dazzling performance in the 100 metres hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics with a gold medal while Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won the men's long jump title in an action packed Monday morning at the Olympic Stadium
Olympics PIX: Ethiopian Barega wins 10,000m gold
Rediff.com30 Jul 2021Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the men's 10,000 metres gold medal, the first of the Olympic athletics programme, on Friday, defeating world champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda.
Olympics Athletics: Dutee, Sable flop; mixed relay team out
Rediff.com30 Jul 2021Avinash Sable shattered his own 3000m steeplechase national record but failed to qualify for the final, while sprinter Dutee Chand produced a below-par performance to make an exit from the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
Olympics Athletics: Who can fill the 'Bolt-hole'?
Rediff.com27 Jul 2021At his peak Bolt was probably the world's most recognisable sportsperson and certainly one of the most marketable. In contrast, the two 2020 Athletes of the year were Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas.
Abebe Bikila: Emperor of the Marathon
Rediff.com21 Jul 2021Prakash Bhandari salutes the spirit of Abebe Bikila who twice won the Olympic Marathon in record times.
Hassan smashes women's 10,000 metres world record
Rediff.com6 Jun 2021Hassan also holds the record for the mile, one-hour event and five-kilometre road race.
Is Xi Scared of Tiananmen 1989?
Rediff.com4 Jun 2021Why omit the Tiananmen massacre from the history of China's Communist party, asks Claude Arpi.
Winners of World Press Photo of the Year are truly incredible
Rediff.com21 Apr 2021A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press Photo of the Year. This year, according to organisers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow to share some of this year's winning photos here with you.
India had highest number of Internet shutdowns at 109 in 2020
Rediff.com4 Mar 2021From Belarus to Bangladesh, authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020.
India records highest number of babies born on New Year's Day
Rediff.com5 Jan 2021More than 3,71,500 babies were born worldwide on New Year's Day and India is estimated to have recorded the highest number of births at around 60,000, according to the United Nations' children's agency.
How not to be a shoddy manufacturing nation
Rediff.com10 Dec 2020If India wants to become a globally competitive manufacturing hub, it will have to rethink the notion that the traditional SMEs will form the manufacturing backbone, argues Prosenjit Datta.
Kenya's Kandie smashes half marathon world record
Rediff.com6 Dec 2020Kenya's Kibiwott Kandie smashed the half marathon world record by 29 seconds on Sunday, becoming the first person to break 58 minutes at the Valencia Half Marathon.
Duplantis and Rojas are world athletes of the year
Rediff.com5 Dec 2020Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, American Ryan Crouser (shot put), German Johannes Vetter (javelin) and Norwegian Karsten Warholm (400m hurdles) were the other male finalists at the virtual ceremony.
Olympic-bound Sable breaks record at Delhi half marathon
Rediff.com29 Nov 2020The 26-year-old Avinash Sable, who qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 3000m steeplechase event during the World Athletics Championships last year, became the first Indian to run a half marathon under sixty one minutes.
Hong Kong bars AI flights for 4th time as flyers test Covid positive
Rediff.com28 Oct 2020Previous bans were on the airline's Delhi-Hong Kong flights during September 20-October 3 and August 18-August 31 and October 17-October 30. Passengers from India can arrive in Hong Kong only if they have a COVID-19 negative certificate from a test done within 72 hours prior to the journey, according to rules issued by the Hong Kong government in July.
All you need to know about World Food Programme -- Nobel Peace Prize winner
Rediff.com9 Oct 2020The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme for its efforts to combat hunger. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the WFP had acted "as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict". Here's what you need to know about the Rome-based organisation:
London Marathon: Kipchoge suffers rare defeat
Rediff.com4 Oct 2020Ethiopian Shura Kitata won a thrilling London Marathon as a stunned world record holder Eliud Kipchoge faded late in the race
What China's real game in Ladakh is
Rediff.com1 Oct 2020Chushul and Depsang are not vital in this game of Chinese checkers, the Indian Ocean Region is. Keeping our maritime prowess restricted has to be a key Chinese strategic interest and it would appear that the LAC affair has helped China achieve its aim, points out Vice Admiral Premvir Das (retd).
91 foreign Markaz attendees granted bail
Rediff.com9 Jul 2020The 91 foreigners from 21 countries were chargesheeted for attending Markaz at Nizamuddin in New Delhi allegedly in violation of visa conditions, indulging in missionary activities illegally and violating government guidelines issued after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Why he wants to track humankind's journey around the world
Rediff.com6 Jun 2020Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America.
Centre bans 2,550 foreign Tablighi members from India for 10 years
Rediff.com5 Jun 2020Action against the foreign Tablighi Jamaat members was first taken after over 2,300 people, including 250 foreigners, belonging to the Islamic organisation were found to be living at its headquarters located at Delhi's Nizamuddin soon after the nation-wide lockdown was announced in March. Several of these members had tested positive for coronavirus.
A salute for Major Suman Gawani
Rediff.com4 Jun 2020Major Suman Gawani, who served as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan, is the first Indian to receive the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. 'On seeing the Indian flag on my uniform,' she says,' the locals would get very excited and say, 'Hindi, Hindi'.'
Maha, UP, MP target locust swarms; more invasions predicted
Rediff.com29 May 2020Senior officials, including those from a central team, were present during the night-long operation and a close vigil is being maintained on further movement of locusts, Katiyar said. Two fire brigade vehicles loaded with insecticide had been deployed in all four Jhansi tehsils besides six vehicles were kept ready at the district headquarter. Ten municipal employees with two insecticide spraying machines were posted in every block.
Gym closures force Kenyan sports champions to train by roadside
Rediff.com26 May 2020Kenya taekwondo champion Vincent Ochieng usually trains in school sports halls in Kisumu, but now he is working out with hundreds of other people on the gritty surface of the western city's biggest highway flyover. The government closed sports facilities in March as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, leaving athletes like Ochieng, who was looking forward to representing Kenya at the World Taekwondo Championships in China in October, with nowhere to train.
Over 50 mn Indians lack handwashing access: Study
Rediff.com21 May 2020In India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia, more than 50 million persons in each country were estimated to be without handwashing access, according to the study.
India-US coalition begin clinical trials for coronavirus
Rediff.com17 Mar 2020The trial began at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle as the first participant received the investigational vaccine.
Anurag Srivastava to replace Raveesh Kumar as MEA spokesperson
Rediff.com6 Mar 2020Anurag Srivastava is currently serving as the Indian ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union. He is from the 1999 batch of the Indian Foreign Service.
Japan's crowdless sport: A prelude to a coronavirus-hit Games?
Rediff.com1 Mar 2020Tokyo marathon which last year saw close to 38,000 amateur participants, was scaled back to just a few hundred professional athletes, with the public strongly discouraged from lining the route. In past years the event attracted more than 1 million roadside spectators.
Half marathon world record smashed!
Rediff.com21 Feb 2020Yeshaneh crossed the finish line in one hour, four minutes and 31 seconds at the World Athletics Gold Label road race, eclipsing the previous record of 1:04:51
Coronavirus: Over 50,000 Indians stuck in China
Rediff.com14 Feb 2020While many are getting stranded because of lack of clarity regarding the visa rules following the novel coronavirus outbreak, others are stranded in transit as even OCI cardholders are being turned away
Were Nehru and Menon responsible for the 1962 defeat?
Rediff.com28 Jan 2020'Rightly or wrongly, 1962 got ascribed to Krishna Menon and him alone. That's unfair.' 'Certainly, he was one of the guilty men, but he was not the only guilty man. Mistakes were made all around.'
Mumbai Marathon: Ethiopian Hurisa creates course record
Rediff.com19 Jan 2020Srinu Bugatha, Sudha Singh win Indian Elite category.
Textile hub Tirupur in trouble as world brands cut down export orders
Rediff.com5 Jan 2020MotherCare, the baby and maternity clothes retailer that annually sourced garments worth Rs 100 crore from a single exporter in Tirupur, filed for bankruptcy in the UK and will close all its 79 shops in that country. It was the latest world-famous brand to pull down Tirupur's fortunes.
Boeing 737 Max crisis: Indian IT firms may take a $1-bn hit
Rediff.com3 Jan 2020Major IT firms such as Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, Infosys, Cyient, and L&T Technology Services have direct exposure to Boeing or its suppliers' ecosystem, which comprises engine manufacturers, body suppliers, and avionics providers. These firms provide services like application development, testing, engineering, avionics, and business process management for the Boeing 737 Max programme.
A plan for CDS Rawat to consider
Rediff.com2 Jan 2020As India's international role expands, so must our capabilities, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
At 67,385, India has most babies on New Year's Day
Rediff.com2 Jan 2020An estimated 3,92,078 babies were born around the world on New Year's Day, according to UNICEF. Of this, an estimated 67,385 babies were born in India, the most globally. China came in second with 46,299 births.