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Rio de Janeiro: India’s Aditi Ashok went through a horrendous third round of eight-over 79 to drop 23 places to be tied 31st in the women’s golf event at the Olympic Games here on Friday. The 18-year-old, who scored two successive three-under 68 to be tied eighth till the 36 holes, played a poor back-nine […]

Visakhapatnam: India today inducted Russian- made nuclear powered submarine `INS Chakra` into the Navy, joining an elite group of nations possessing sophisticated warships. Defence Minister A K Antony formally commissioned the Akula II class Nerpa, rechristened INS Chakra, into the Navy at the Ship Building Complex here in Andhra Pradesh. With the country entering the […]

New Delhi: Terming reports about "unusual" troop movements towards Delhi as "very serious", the CPI today asked Defence Minister A K Antony to clarify what had actually happened and sought a probe into the incident as well as the reported differences between the army and the Ministry. "Unfortunately, this report has come in the backdrop […]

Rio de Janeiro: Indian badminton chief coach Pullela Gopichand on Friday said that he was proud of the fact that under his tutelage the country has won two consecutive medals in Olympics. Saina Nehwal won a bronze in London Olympics in 2012 and P.V. Sindhu bettered the colour of the medal after losing the women’s […]

Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court was today apprised that Mahipal Maderna and Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, accused in the abduction and murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi, have been shifted from the Jodhpur Central Jail to prisons in Jaipur and Ajmer respectively. Both of them were taken for their respective destinations this morning amidst tight police security […]

New Delhi: At a time when the whole nation was celebrating P.V. Sindhu’s historic silver medal feat at the Rio Olympics, London games bronze medallist Saina Nehwal announced on Friday that she will go under the knife for her troublesome right knee on Saturday. Saina, who bowed out of the Rio Olympics after the first […]

Chandigarh: Over 2,400 students have been booked for indulging in unfair practices during the semester examinations of Board of School Education Haryana that concluded today, a senior Board official said. Twenty teachers were also relieved of examination duty in this regard, Board`s Secretary D K Behera said, adding that as many as 2,447 candidates were […]

New Delhi: All India Football Federation (AIFF) President Praful Patel on Friday announced cash awards of Rs 5 lakh each to Rio Olympics medallists — shuttler P.V. Sindhu and wrestler Sakshi Malik. “AIFFMedia expresses its support and solidarity to the sporting fraternity for doing India proud. We award Rs five lakh each to Sindhu and […]

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Sonia Gandhi congratulated shuttler P.V. Sindhu, who clinched a historic silver at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. “Great game played with grit; Hearty congrats #PVSindhu on creating history by winning for India Olympic Silver medal,” Mukherjee tweeted. In his congratulatory […]

Rio de Janeiro: Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu settled for silver at the Rio Olympics after being beaten 21-19, 12-21, 15-21 by World No.1 Carolina Marin of Spain in the badminton women’s singles event here on Friday. It is India’s second medal in the Rio Games after wrestler Sakshi Malik bagged bronze in the women’s 58 […]

Islamabad: Launching a scathing attack on the Supreme Court, Pakistan`s ruling PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has asked it to apologise for the "role it played in the judicial murder" of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and to ensure there are no "double standards" in the contempt case against Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani. 23-year-old Bilawal, the nominal […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Friday asked banks to open new branches in every Panchayat and complete Aadhar seeding to allow direct transfer of government benefits to people. “Even today about 80 per cent of our Gram Panchayats do not have a bank branch,” Finance Minister Pradeep Amat said at the 144th meeting of the […]

Kathmandu: Indian Army Chief Gen V K Singh arrived here today to attend a regional seminar on natural disaster management and humanitarian assistance. The seminar is being organised with a view to develop a common regional perspective on plan, management and implementation among the armies in the region. Gen Singh, who is leading a three […]

Muzaffarnagar: Islamic seminary Darul Ulum Deoband has issued a fatwa against beauty parlours saying running such a place is against the Shariat Law. The fatwa was issued in response to a question posed before the Darul Uloom asking whether the profession of running beauty parlours by Muslim women is justified by the law according to […]

New Delhi: Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said in order to produce good results, it is important to support the Indian athletes. He said in the ongoing Rio Olympics, people should continue supporting the athletes who haven’t performed as per expectations, so that they can perform well in the future. “Some results were not […]