Indian Grand Prix athletics: Dutee, Hima Das win sprints
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Thu, Feb 25 2021 19:57 IST |
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Patiala, Feb 25 : Assam s sprint prodigy Hima Das won the women s 200m race while Odisha s Dutee Chand dominated 100m in the second leg of the Indian Grand Prix meet at Patiala s National Institute of Sports here on Thursday.
Hima s winning time of 23.31 seconds in her first race after a long layoff due to back injury could be seen as good performance, but it fell short of Tokyo Olympic qualification time of 22.80 seconds.
Hima, the 21-year-old 2018 world junior 400m champion and national record holder of 50.79 seconds, hasn t done well over the one-lap race since April 2019 due to lower back pain. She has now switched to shorter sprints 100m and 200m. She is also one of the key runners in the national women s 4x100m relay team.
Body formed to discourage cheating in examinations
Peshawar
February 19, 2021
KARAK: Students of various universities and colleges in the district have formed a body to discourage cheating in examinations.
The decision was taken at a daylong seminar held at Town Hall Karak. On the occasion, the speakers said the anti-cheating organisation would be expanded to all educational institutions to curb the menace of cheating in the exams
Addressing the seminar, the founders of the organisation including Faizullah, Ishfaq, Muhammad Jalal, Atif Hayat, Muhammad Anees, Numan Khalid and others expressed concern over the examination system of the province and the country and claimed that very soon the educational system in the country would collapse as the cheating culture has undermined the roots of educational standards. They said the prevailing examination system was not the real yardstick to evaluate the intelligence quotient (IQ) and the educational standard of the students.