Tag: Tokyo Olympics 2021

For a moment, Neeraj Chopra, with the Indian flag fluttering behind him, was alone with the third-placed Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch for the photo-op after winning the Gold at World Championships. He would cast a look to his side, urging Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem to join him. Nadeem, it turns ...

The use of the anthem is an old trick in marketers' booksTokyo 2020 was not just about news jacking and controversial moment marketing, many brands have used the biggest stage in global sports to run some very interesting campaigns. Here is a look at how some brands have used ...

The government on Thursday took the first step towards doing away with the contentious retrospective tax law of 2012, which was used to raise large tax demands on foreign investors like Vodafone and Cairn Energy, and blamed for vitiating India’s investment climate — less than a month after Cairn ...

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana is scheduled to hear on August 5 a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over ...

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is “still raging” in the country and is far from over, Lav Aggarwal joint secretary, Health Ministry, told a press conference on Tuesday. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala have registered a rise in the ...

 Japan's global superstar Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity. Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus, the Games ...

NEW DELHI: The Olympics are here, but for a moment let's go back to the 1975 World Cup. The trophy had agonisingly slipped out of India's hands in the edition before this one (1973 - India lost to Netherlands on penalty strokes in the final). Ahead of the final ...

Cricket England internationals Dates  England v New Zealand Tests: June 2-6 (Lord’s), June 10-14 (Edgbaston); England v Sri Lanka T20s: June 23, 24, 26; ODIs: June 29, July 1, 4; England v Pakistan ODIs: July 8, 10, 13; T20s: July 16, 18, 20 Chances of full venues  For the New ...