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How two tennis legends forgot their rivalry and helped to defeat common enemy
Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova were two of the legendary names of women’s tennis. They were rivals destined to be each other’s fiercest adversaries. They hated each other’s guts, skills and stamina.…
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Widespread demolitions ahead of G20 summit leave poor residents in pitiable condition
Ahead of the G20 summit in New Delhi, a large-scale demolition drive put countless poor families on the streets. These people whose homes were destroyed by bulldozers are now living on the pavements with…
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Role of J-K MPs at time of abrogation of Article 370 comes under scanner
Jammu and Kashmir politics is roiling at the moment as barbs are being exchanged as to who played what role during the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 in the wake…
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Water Warrior Abid Surti should be followed in saving water
Every Sunday morning in Mumbai an 88-year-old man with a bag filled with plumbing tools sets out to repair the leaking taps and pipes in his neighbourhood. Sometimes he is accompanied by a…
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Heath Streak, former Zimbabwe captain known as a gentle giant, loses life to cancer
Heath Streak who passed away on Sunday was one of those rare all rounders who could turn a match around with his personal brilliance. He belonged to the golden generation of Zimbabwe cricketers who…
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The relevance of Prophet Muhammad’s teachings across ages
Hyderabad: Remember the time when you had your ear tweaked. Or you were made to stand on the bench for not doing the homework. Challenging moments they seemed at that point of…
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Neeraj Chopra’s invitation to Nadeem and others wins hearts in India and Pakistan
Sportsmanship is about competing hard. It is also about upholding the concepts of decent behavior and gentlemanliness when dealing with rivals. Neeraj Chopra’s latest move of extending an invitation to his Pakistani rival Arshad…
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For years, India’s top wrestling champions lived in fear of Hamida Bano
In the 1940s and 1950s there was a woman wrestler who had become the darling of the media. The sports lovers of India passionately wanted her to succeed and turned up in large…
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Impressive results emerge from Urdu teaching initiative of Abid Ali Khan Educational Trust
Hyderabad:Main to paida huee Bharat mein mohabbat ke liyeSab ba-ratte hain magar apni zaroorat ke liyeJab bhi aata hai election tho maiN yaad aati huNWarna phir sab ke damagon se nikal jaati…
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Barring Neeraj Chopra, India’s performance at world athletics is dismal
While heaping praise on Neeraj Chopra for bagging a gold medal in the World Athletic championships recently, let us not forget that it was just one single individual who shone with his personal…
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Indra Lal Roy, Flying Ace of India, sacrificed his life for Britain during WWI
On a bright summer morning in July 1918, when the first world war was in full fow, a group of fighter planes belonging to the Royal Air Force of Britain was locked in a…
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From fat to fit; success story of India’s most decorated athlete Neeraj Chopra
He is tall, handsome and successful. Now aged 25, Neeraj Chopra, India’s ace javelin thrower and newly crowned world champion, has emerged as the man with the Midas touch. His latest acquisition…
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COVID: Should we start wearing masks again?
By Simon Clarke, University of Reading Reading: One thing that can be guaranteed about COVID is that evolution will provide us with a more or less constant stream of new coronavirus variants,…
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ISRO, now basking in the success of Chadrayaan-3, embarked on 93 launch since 1979
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which is now basking in the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed on the moon’s South Pole, has embarked on as many as 93 launch…