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New Delhi: Some of the World's leading long distance runners including Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris two-time 5000m champion, Kenya’s Felix Kipkoech and Ethiopia’s Chala Regasa, the second and third fastest men in the field with personal bests of 58:57 and 59:10 will battle it out top honours at Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon here on Sunday.

The day after much of the dust settled on the Supreme Court’s split verdict on the hijab, things are falling into place for a better understanding of the verdict. One, it has become clear that after failing with the essential religious practice (erp) as the raison d’etre for the ‘hijab’ in classrooms demand, advocates for the hijab petitioners had picked on “hijab is a matter of choice” to deliver them the goods. And this has become the biggest defence of the hijab after the split verdict, something Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia highlighted in his divergent verdict which trashed and squashed the Karnataka high court verdict.

Trade numbers for the fiscal 2022-2023 are looking dismal. The expectation is that for the Q1 and Q2 Fiscal 2022-2023, the Current Account Deficit (CAD) is expected to be the highest in 9 years. A quick search on items using the harmonized system (HS) at a 2-digit level reveals that there are 6 such items (among the top ten tradable items), which are of intra-industry types and contribute more than 70% of India’s trade deficit. Controlling CAD would call for understanding the nature of the deficit and policy response to counter this growing deficit.

New Delhi: A header in the first-half of extra-time by Setungchim, helped Pilgrim Higher Secondary School (PHSS), Dimapur, Nagaland, beat Government Model Higher Secondary School (GMHSS), Chandigarh 1-0 to take back home Subroto Cup after 42 years.

New Delhi: Distance running legend Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie on Thursday unveiled the unique finisher’s medal for Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon and urged participants to “pace the run and enjoy the moment.”

New Delhi: Veteran Vishnu Vardhan turned the clock back and the years as he knocked much younger Prajwal Dev out of the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship. here on Thursday.

New Delhi: In an exciting battle, team ‘Tee BIrds’ pulled the rug from under team ‘Robo4me’ winning 4 of their 7 games to tally 8.5 points and climb to the second spot behind ‘The A-Team’ in their group on Day 8 of the Lloyd Delhi Golf Club League here on Thursday.

PM Modi led BJP government of India has put the public sectors of the country on sale for quite some time. After the privatization move of public sector companies, banking, and insurance sector, the central government is now trying to sell district hospitals to private companies, and five states either governed or supported by the BJP have now started the process. These states are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Meghalaya.

When two honourable Supreme Court justices are unable to arrive at a mutually acceptable decision on the hijab, then why do you think the Karnataka High Court ruled that a classroom is out of bounds for religious symbols? The top court’s fractured verdict will keep the Karnataka High Court’s no hijab in schools verdict in animation while the three high court judges who gave that verdict will remain in suspended animation till a larger Supreme Court bench surprises everyone all over again.

In West Bengal, the administrative deadlock with the centre over the mandatory provision of 100 days work for unskilled rural people under the MNREGA scheme drags on, adding to the political concerns of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government. This project, suspended since last December in the state, is the centrepiece of the Central government-aided social welfare schemes.