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Grant Fisher smashes 3,000m World indoor record

Grant Fisher smashes 3,000m World indoor record

Rediff.com9 Feb 2025

American Grant Fisher smashed the World indoor 3,000 metres record at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday, in a thrilling duel with Olympic 1,500 meters champion Cole Hocker.

Grant Fisher breaks 5,000m Indoor World record

Grant Fisher breaks 5,000m Indoor World record

Rediff.com15 Feb 2025

Grant Fisher of the United States smashed the World indoor 5,000 meters record at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Friday, just a week after setting the Indoor 3,000 meters record.

Josh Hoey shatters 28-year-old 800m indoor world record

Josh Hoey shatters 28-year-old 800m indoor world record

Rediff.com25 Jan 2026

American Josh Hoey stormed to a new men's 800m short track world record in Boston.

Kipyegon misses sub-4 mile, but vows to try again

Kipyegon misses sub-4 mile, but vows to try again

Rediff.com27 Jun 2025

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon fell short in her attempt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes on Thursday

Masai Russell runs second-fastest 100m hurdles in history

Masai Russell runs second-fastest 100m hurdles in history

Rediff.com3 May 2025

Olympic gold medalist Masai Russell set an American record in the 100m hurdles at the Grand Slam Track meet in Miami on Friday, breaking the tape in 12.17 seconds for the second-fastest time ever recorded in the event.

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 Review: Mostly Exhausting

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 Review: Mostly Exhausting

Rediff.com27 Dec 2025

Large chunks of Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 2 are exhausting and boring, despite the efforts of the likeable cast, with the '80s outfits and big hairstyles that were trendy then, looking earnest and hassled because the fate of the world depends on them, observes Deepa Gahlot.

Seville upstages Olympic champion Lyles again in 100m

Seville upstages Olympic champion Lyles again in 100m

Rediff.com21 Aug 2025

Jamaican Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles trailing in his wake to win the Lausanne Diamond League 100 metres in Lausanne on Wednesday.

Warholm shatters own world best time in 300m hurdles

Warholm shatters own world best time in 300m hurdles

Rediff.com13 Jun 2025

Norwegian hurdling great Karsten Warholm destroyed his own world best time in the rarely run 300 metres hurdles at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on Thursday.

US set 4x400m mixed World mark; Cheptegei wins 10,000

US set 4x400m mixed World mark; Cheptegei wins 10,000

Rediff.com3 Aug 2024

The United States team broke their own world record in the 4x400 mixed relay in the opening heats at the Paris Olympics on Friday

Athletics delivers thrills, records and upsets in Paris

Athletics delivers thrills, records and upsets in Paris

Rediff.com12 Aug 2024

Lyles and Hassan bookend fabulous Paris programme

ECB grants annual central contracts for Foakes, Livingstone

ECB grants annual central contracts for Foakes, Livingstone

Rediff.com11 Oct 2022

Last year, England switched to a new system of central contracts which was a departure from the previous separation of red-ball and white-ball deals, introduced by the ECB in 2016.

Olympics: Russell takes 100m hurdles gold by a whisker

Olympics: Russell takes 100m hurdles gold by a whisker

Rediff.com11 Aug 2024

American Masai Russell won the Olympic 100 metres hurdles title in a blanket finish on Saturday.

Olympics: Poland grant Belarus athlete humanitarian visa

Olympics: Poland grant Belarus athlete humanitarian visa

Rediff.com2 Aug 2021

Belarusian athlete Tsimanouskaya, 24, had been due to compete in the women's 200 metre heats on Monday but said that on Sunday she was taken to the airport to board a Turkish Airlines flight.

Numbers Don't Add Up For BJP In Tamil Nadu

Numbers Don't Add Up For BJP In Tamil Nadu

Rediff.com19 Apr 2024

Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral contest in Tamil Nadu.

PIX: Fraser-Pryce leads Jamaican sweep in women's 100m

PIX: Fraser-Pryce leads Jamaican sweep in women's 100m

Rediff.com18 Jul 2022

Images from the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, Day 3, in Oregon.

PIX: US men, women storm to 4x400m World relay gold

PIX: US men, women storm to 4x400m World relay gold

Rediff.com25 Jul 2022

The Italian and Japanese battled shoulder-to-shoulder as the leading pair in the final 4km, but the Italian coped well with the pressure and accelerated in the final 300m to seal the gold medal.

Reshuffle: Modi snubs AIADMK again

Reshuffle: Modi snubs AIADMK again

Rediff.com8 Jul 2021

AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam is said to be upset at his son Raveendranath Kumar, a Lok Sabha MP, being denied a ministerial chance for a second time in a row, beginning with the formation of Modi 2.0 in 2019, reveals N Sathiya Moorthy.

Golden Globes 2019: On The Red Carpet

Golden Globes 2019: On The Red Carpet

Rediff.com7 Jan 2019

A look at Hollywood's swish set at the Globes.

Golden Globes 2019: Rami Malek, Glenn Close win

Golden Globes 2019: Rami Malek, Glenn Close win

Rediff.com7 Jan 2019

Who won at the Globes? We tell you!

How Jallikattu protests left the State on the backfoot

How Jallikattu protests left the State on the backfoot

Rediff.com25 Jan 2017

The governments at the Centre and in the state were unprepared to handle the massive response to the large numbers of people, as they were not aware of the groundswell of public admonition that was against the Establishment, says N Sathiyamoorthy.

TN may have the answer for fishermen issue, but what about funds?

TN may have the answer for fishermen issue, but what about funds?

Rediff.com22 Feb 2016

It maybe time for the Centre to take a closer look at Chief Minister Jayalalitha's innovative' solution to a long-pending problem, says N Sathiya Moorthy.

Modi Sarkar has a 'strong pro-West tilt'

Modi Sarkar has a 'strong pro-West tilt'

Rediff.com14 Jul 2015

'If you look at the relationship with Pakistan, or the relationship with China, both are today, more uncertain than they were when this government came into power.'

EPS does a Jaya but like her, can he keep the BJP at bay?

EPS does a Jaya but like her, can he keep the BJP at bay?

Rediff.com5 Feb 2019

In the absence of the over-arching 'Jaya charisma', EPS has to convince the AIADMK's traditional constituencies, including those in his western districts, that his leadership would stand up against the BJP-led Centre even in a post-poll scenario, a la Jayalalithaa, and would not yield as much as party founder MGR had done, says N Sathiya Moorthy.

Exclusive! Medha Patkar: Land acquisition ordinance will destroy poor

Exclusive! Medha Patkar: Land acquisition ordinance will destroy poor

Rediff.com14 Jan 2015

The new ordinance on land acquisition will allow land grabbers to deprive millions, destroy agriculture, horticulture, rivers, forests, tree cover and mangroves to extract minerals as well as ground water, without replenishment at a pace that will not leave anything for the next generation, warns activist Medha Patkar.