Denemek ALTIN - Özgür

Inter-state meet: Top stars chase Tokyo berths

Hindustan Times Delhi

|

August 20, 2025

The National Inter State Athletics meet starting in Chennai on Wednesday will be the last opportunity for Indian athletes to book their places for the World Championships in Tokyo.

- Avishek Roy

Inter-state meet: Top stars chase Tokyo berths

The Worlds’ cutoff date is August 24, which will be the last day of the five-day domestic meet in Chennai.

There will be a lot of excitement around 200m sprinter Animesh Kujur, who is inside the qualification cutoff through Road to Tokyo rankings (rank 42 out of 48 possible entries) and would be looking to bolster his chances in Chennai towards making his debut at the World Championships.

Kujur has attracted eyeballs this season, producing fast timings in a discipline where Indians do not have much of a pedigree. At the Asian Championships in Gumi, he won bronze, shattering the national record (20.32s).

Similar buzz will be around seasoned long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, who came close to

Hindustan Times Delhi'den DAHA FAZLA HİKAYE

Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times

Underground infra: A planning blind spot

As water turns toxic, tunnels flood, a deeper failure surfaces—absence of underground planning and governance in cities

time to read

6 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times Delhi

Centre asks states to implement scalable, safe sanitation models amid Indore scare

The Centre, in a recent review held by Union jal shakti minister CR Patil, advised states to implement scalable and safe sanitation models under the Swachh Bharat Mission (rural), a move that comes amid heightened public-health concerns following the deaths of at least 10 people in Indore linked to sewage-contaminated drinking water.

time to read

1 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times

Ambani, Adani unveil big bets at Vibrant Guj

Top industrial houses, including Reliance Industries and the Adani Group, lined up large investment proposals for Gujarat on the inaugural day of the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference for the Kutch and Saurashtra regions, in Rajkot on Sunday.

time to read

3 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times Delhi

On a cold night’s assignment

On the winter work of three “ghori wale”

time to read

2 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times Delhi

Hindustan Times Delhi

BJP-AAP row over Guru Tegh Bahadur escalates

Several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers and MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj were briefly detained during a protest near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in central Delhi’s DDU Marg as the political row over the alleged insult to Guru Tegh Bahadur escalated on Sunday.

time to read

2 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times

Born in India, still stateless? Top court to examine citizenship law

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine whether India’s citizenship law can be interpreted liberally to ease the path to citizenship for children born in India to foreign nationals, including whether such children can be treated as “persons of Indian origin” (PIO) or otherwise granted citizenship by registration.

time to read

1 min

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times

‘Youth key to building developed city’

Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday chaired an interactive “Lunch Pe Charcha” programme with the youth of Delhi, ahead of the National Youth Day on Monday.

time to read

1 min

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times

Sabarimala case needs neutral agency probe: Shah in Kerala

Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanded on Sunday that Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan hand over the probe into the Sabarimala gold theft case to a neutral investigation agency, signalling that the state police could not conduct an impartial inquiry.

time to read

2 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times

X acts on obscene Grok content after govt notice

Microblogging platform X removed about 3,500 pieces of content and deleted over 600 accounts after the company accepted its mistake in handling objectionable content generated by its AI chatbot Grok and committed to complying with Indian law, officials aware of the matter said on Sunday.

time to read

3 mins

January 12, 2026

Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times

MADHYA PRADESH TO OBSERVE 2026 AS KRISHAK KALYAN VARSH

CM Mohan Yadav inaugurates Krishak Kalyan Varsh-2026, leads a historic rally of 1,101 tractors

time to read

1 mins

January 12, 2026

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size