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Japan extends emergency amid vaccine, Olympic uncertainty

9:55 pm February 2, 2021

Tokyo: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced Tuesday that he is extending a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and nine other areas through March 7, amid growing uncertainty over the national rollout of vaccines and the hosting of the Tokyo Olympics this summer. Suga said he will speed up vaccination plans and start inoculating a first group of medical workers […]

Gill blazes to National Rally Championship title

7:31 pm January 31, 2021

Coimbatore: Gaurav Gill was in blazing form at the wheels of his Mahindra XUV as he and navigator Musa Sherif showed immense skills and patience to win the Rally of Coimbatore here on Sunday and again emerge national champions. By winning two legs on tarmac in Itanagar last month and performing strongly in Kethanur, 40km […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

A 17-year-old daredevil could be China’s next Olympic star

10:32 pm January 30, 2021

Aspen: When sports fans hear the name Eileen Gu over the next 12 months — and they will hear it a lot — it will not be by accident. Hard work, laser-focused planning, an unworldly wealth of talent and a splendid bit of timing could turn this 17-year-old freeskier, who hails from San Francisco but whose mother is from China, […]

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Sports Minister Rijiju inaugurates STC in Solal Gaon, Assam

10:17 pm January 30, 2021

New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, in the presence of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, on Saturday inaugurated a new SAI Training Centre (STC) at Solal Gaon in the state’s North Lakhimpur town. The training centre will have a hostel for athletes and a multisports indoor hall. In the initial phase, the STC will be catering to athletes in the sports of weightlifting […]

Determined to hosting Olympics: Japan PM Suga Yoshihide

8:15 pm January 29, 2021

New Delhi/Davos: While Japan‘s fight against COVID-19 continues, the country is committed to hosting the Olympic Games, now scheduled for July, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide said on Friday. In a special address at the World Economic Forum’s online Davos Agenda Summit, Yoshihide also said he is himself standing in the front line of the […]