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With prominent names such as Dutee Chand and Hima Das featuring in it the women’s 100m final was the most anticipated race in the Federation Cup athletics meet in Patiala on Tuesday. In the men’s 400m final, Delhi’s Amoj Jacob stole the show with a 45.68 second timing. The TN duo Naganathan Pandi (46.09) and Arokia Rajiv (46.52) were second and third respectively.

Commonwealth Games-bound sprinter S Dhanalakshmi and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu were dropped from the Indian team after returning two positive tests each for banned drugs as dope shame struck Indian athletics, days ahead of the multi-sport event.

Tamil Nadu’s S Dhanalakshmi won the women’s 100m final at the Inter-State athletics meet in Patiala on Saturday clocking 11.52 seconds. It wasn’t the best of races for star sprinter Dutee Chand as she finished fourth with 11.62 seconds. Sri Lanka’s Amasha De Silva (11.59) won silver while Dhanalakshmi’s statemate Archana Suseendran (11.60) bagged bronze.

Indian sprinter S Dhanalakshmi clocked her personal best time of 11.26 seconds to win the 100m race at the Erzurum Sprint International Cup in Turkey while Hima Das was second with a timing of 11.59s.

Here's good news for fans of actress Dhanalakshmi. Poove Poochoodava fame Dhanalakshmi is all set to get married to long-time beau Shiva soon. She has shared the news with fans on her social media handle.

Tamil Nadu's S Dhanalakshmi got the better of Hima Das to win the women's 200m final at the Indian Grand Prix 1 in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. Dhanalakshmi topped the charts with a timing of 23.21 seconds while Hima clocked 23.45. Kerala's Anjali PD was third (24.19).

Dhanalakshmi on beating PT Usha's record at the Federation Cup

National record holder Dutee Chand was beaten to second place by S Dhanalakshmi, while Hima Das was disqualified after a false start in a much-anticipated women's 100m sprint final in the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships on Tuesday. Another Tamil Nadu runner Archana Suseendran was third in 11.76.

MGR Nagar police on Tuesday arrested two men for the murder of LIC agent Visalakshi in Ganga Nagar in Jafferkhanpet.

Injured Hima Das' place in the women's 100m relay final on Tuesday is likely to be taken by Karnataka's AT Dhaneshwari as the Indian quartet makes a final bid for Olympics qualification during the ongoing National Inter-State Championships.

Star sprinter Hima Das and national record holder Dutee Chand were on Tuesday named in the Indian women's 4x100m team for the World Athletics Relays, an Olympic qualification event, to be held in Poland on May 1 and 2.

Dhanalakshmi Sekar, the women's 100m and 4x100m relay specialist, and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu have failed dope tests just a week before the start of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Actress Dhanalakshmi of Poove Poochoodava fame got married to her long-time beau Shiva on September 14 (yesterday) in Chennai. Amid COVID-19 spread, it was an intimate affair with just close family members and friends in attendance.

Three people, including the mother of a minor girl and a woman matchmaker, were arrested for conducting a child marriage on Tuesday.The bridegroom was also arrested by the police.

A 17-year-old girl from the irula community from Villupuram district, who had applied for a community certificate, accused four vanniyar men of slapping and pushing her down on Saturday. The men had accused 30 families in T Parangirni village of claiming to be irula members only to avail community privileges.

Seven years after the disappearance of a minor girl, Coimbatore rural police have made a breakthrough and re-opened the case.

Farmers in the district have come out against the state government's move to set up a mini stadium on a poromboke land spread across 38 acres at Velliyampatty village in Yercaud assembly constituency. The village is situated 30km from Salem city.