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Rio de Janeiro: India’s dismal performance at the Rio Olympics continued on Sunday with the tennis duo of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna losing out on a medal while star shuttler Saina Nehwal, the men’s hockey team, athletes O.P. Jaisha and Kavita Raut along with shooters Gagan Narang and Chain Singh crashing out of contention. […]

Rio de Janeiro: India had a disappointing day in the women’s marathon on Sunday as O.P. Jaisha finished in the 89th position, while her compatriot Kavita Raut finished 120th at the Olympic Games here. Jaisha clocked a timing of 2:47.19 hours, while Kavita clocked 2:59.29. The event was dominated by Jemima Jelagat Sumgong, 31, of […]

Rio de Janeiro: India’s P.V. Sindhu thrashed Hungarian Laura Sarosi 21-8, 21-9 in straight games in a Group M match of women’s singles badminton at the Rio Olympics here on Thursday. The World No. 10 took just 27 minutes to wrap up the match against the No. 64. In the first game, the 21-year-old Indian […]

Rio de Janeiro: Striker Sebastian Dockeier struck twice in Belgium’s 3-1 triumph over India on Sunday putting paid to the latter’s hopes of making it to the men’s hockey semi-finals at the Olympics after a long gap of 36 years. India, who last won an Olympic medal — a gold — at the 1980 Moscow […]

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday deplored the “divisiveness and intolerance” in the country and said attacks on “weaker sections” of Indian society were against the national ethos. Amid the rising number of attacks by self-styled cow vigilante groups, the President in his address on the eve of the 70th Independence Day quoted former […]

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Rio de Janeiro: India’s hopes of their first medal at the Rio Olympics were dashed as Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna lost 1-6, 5-7 to Czechs Lucie Hradecka and Radek Stepanek in the tennis mixed doubles bronze medal match at the Rio Olympics here on Sunday. The Indian pair went down in an hour and […]

Rio de Janeiro: Indian shooters Gagan Narang and Chain Singh failed to qualify for the final round of the men’s 50 metre Rifle event at the Rio Olympics here on Sunday. Chain Singh secured the 23rd position among 44 competitors, with a combined score of 1169 including 52 inner 10s at the Olympic Shooting Centre […]

New Delhi: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) on Sunday extended to its landline customers the facility of making free unlimited calls on any network on the Independence Day on Monday. “BSNL customers will be able to make unlimited free voice calling from the BSNL landline to any mobile and landline network in the country […]

Rio de Janeiro: India’s premier shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the Olympic Games losing to Marija Ulitina of Ukraine in her second match of Group G here on Sunday. World No.61 Ulitina caused a huge upset registering a 21-18, 21-19 win against the World No.5 and 2012 London Games bronze medallist Saina.

Bhubaneswar: RTI activists on Sunday criticised the Odisha government for exempting the Vigilance Department from the purview of Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005. Odisha Soochana Adhikar Abhijan, an outfit spearheading a movement for wide use of RTI in the state, said they would meet Governor S.C. Jamir to seek his intervention to direct the […]

Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday congratulated the national team on their dramatic 237-run victory in the third Test against hosts the West Indies on Saturday. This enabled India take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series as the second Test ended in a draw. Chasing an imposing […]

Kolkata: India is planning to build an oil and gas pipeline with Bangladesh for boosting mutual cooperation in the energy sector, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here on Sunday. Interacting with media persons at the launch of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ (PMUY) in West Bengal, Pradhan said he had a very fruitful […]

Mumbai: Popular rapper Badshah, who is on a roll with the runaway success of the recreated version of “Kala chashma”, will be releasing a new song for MTV Spoken Word. He says it is based on his journey to stardom. Commenting on the track, Badshah said in a statement: “Hip-hop lets one stay true to […]

Kendrapara: Bereft of bridge connectivity, students of a far-flung village in Kendrapara district are forced to wade through waist-deep water in a crocodile-infested creek to reach their school everyday. It’s a dangerous journey for the children of Burudia village under Rajkanika tehsil as threat of crocodile pouncing upon them is quite imminent. The village does […]