Saturday, August 15
New Delhi: The government is set to significantly ramp up budgetary support for sports and sports infrastructure, as India prepares to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games and bids for the 2036 Olympics, people familiar with the matter said.The upcoming budget may announce a multi-year capital outlay to create world-class sports infrastructure over the next 10 years, including training centres for every key Olympic sport, a well-established mechanism to identify talent and a National Institute of Sports Science and Research, signalling a decisive shift from athlete promotion to building a sports ecosystem, they said.Also Read: India’s growth trajectory setting the stage for Budget 2026“The idea is to create a large corpus fund to be spent over five to seven years to build world-class sport
WASHINGTON: Nearly one year since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has come to embrace a risky economic strategy: using the brute force of government as a way to push down prices that remain stubbornly high.From regulatory threats against private businesses to more punitive actions against policymakers, there appears to be no lever in Washington that Trump now seems unwilling to pull, even if doing so might exacerbate some of the very economic strains that he is trying to combat.The extent of Trump's interventions have become especially evident over the past month.He has unleashed a new barrage of attacks on the Federal Reserve, and his administration has opened an investigation into its chair, ostensibly in a bid to force the central bank into lowering interest rates r
The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, US researchers and EU climate monitors said Wednesday.The last 11 years have now been the warmest ever recorded, with 2024 topping the podium and 2023 in second place, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service and Berkeley Earth, a California-based non-profit research organisation.For the first time, global temperatures exceeded 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times on average over the last three years, Copernicus said in its annual report."The warming spike observed from 2023-2025 has been extreme, and suggests an acceleration in the rate of the Earth's warming," Berkeley Earth said in a separate report.The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement commits
