Bhubaneswar: National record holder Manju Rani of Punjab won gold in the women’s 35km race walk event at the National Inter-State Athletics Championship but failed to breach the Asian Games qualifying mark here on Friday. The 24-year-old Rani clocked 3 hours 21 minutes and 31 seconds under hot and humid conditions to win the event but…
New Delhi: The upcoming tour of Spain will not only help “pinpoint the areas that demand immediate attention” but will also give the junior players a chance to prove themselves and make it to the Asian Games squad, feels Indian women’s hockey team skipper Savita. India will have an opportunity to put their skills and team…
Belmont (Michigan): Aditi Ashok carded a bogey-free round that concluded with an eagle, as she was tied-10th after the first round of the Meijer LPGA Classic. Aditi, who has been playing well this season and is currently in Top-20 of the Order of Merit and in Top-50 of the world, left a few shots out…
Jakarta: India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty stunned top seed Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto in straight games to sail into the men’s doubles semifinals of the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 event here on Friday. However, world championship silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth bowed out of the men’s singles competition after going down…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday hit out at the government over renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society here as Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society, calling it a “petty act” and asserting that legacies don’t get erased by renaming buildings. Nearly a year after the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya was inaugurated on the premises…
Imphal: Supplies of essential items including baby food and medicines and movement of security forces have been hit in several areas of Manipur because of blockades of both the National Highway leading to the state by tribals as well as at least six arterial roads by women-led vigilante groups. Sources added that in the past…
Chennai: AIADMK general secretary K Palaniswami’s remark on Friday that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin appeared nervous over the arrest of his cabinet colleague V Senthil Balaji by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), drew flak from the ruling DMK. Wondering if Stalin had displayed so much concern when his sister Kanimozhi was arrested in…
Nagpur: Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Friday said his party’s doors were shut for Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray, and hinted that there was no possibility of reconciliation with him. He was speaking to reporters at the Nagpur airport. “All doors of the BJP are closed for Uddhav Thackeray. We are neither discussing anything…
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday demanded that the Punjab government procure maize at the minimum support price of Rs 2,090 per quintal to ensure that farmers do not resort to distress sales. In a statement issued here, Badal accused the government of running away from its responsibility. Due to…
Namkhana (WB): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday asserted that the panchayat poll nomination process in Bengal is peaceful, while slamming opposition parties for trying to make an issue out of “one or two stray” incidents. Banerjee’s comments come shortly after Governor C V Ananda Bose said that political violence in the state…
