New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tribute to former prime minister Manmohan Singh on his birth anniversary and remembered his many years spent in public life, serving the nation with dedication. Singh was born on September 26, 1932 in the Punjab province of undivided India and died in New Delhi on December…
Nagoya: Sawan Barwal ran a stunning marathon race to hand India an unexpected silver in the Asian Games, shattering his own national record in the process here on Saturday. The 28-year-old Armyman from Himachal Pradesh clocked 2 hour, 11 minute and 37 seconds to complete the distance of 42.195km and finish behind Japan’s Ichitaka Yamashita…
Nagoya: Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen suffered a second-round exit at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, losing to former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in three games here on Saturday. The World No. 14 Sen went down 12-21 21-15 14-21 to the 2021 world champion, ranked 13th, in a battle lasting more than an hour…
Nagoya: The Indian trio of Tilottama Sen, Vidarsa Vinod and Ashi Chouksey won the silver medal in women’s 50m rifle 3 positions team event at the Asian Games here on Saturday, with the first two shooters also making the individual final. The Indian team aggregated 1763 to finish second on the podium. China claimed the…
United Nations: Describing Pakistan as a “puppet” regime, India has ripped into the country’s “falsehoods” and “deceit” at the UN, warning that continued terrorism by Islamabad will have consequences. India exercised its Right of Reply on Friday night after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used the UN General Assembly podium to credit US President Donald…
The Delhi court’s decision to allow US national Matthew Aaron VanDyke, an accused in an NIA case involving alleged links with ethnic armed groups and training in drone warfare, to travel back to the United States raises questions that go far beyond the individual case. The issue is not whether an accused is entitled to…
Sometimes the biggest miracles in cinema happen when nobody is looking. When Hanuman Ansh arrived in theatres on August 7, hardly anybody was looking. Made for a reported Rs 2 crore, without a conventional Bollywood superstar and with none of the publicity machinery that accompanies big-ticket releases, it opened to a mere Rs 10 lakh….
Mumbai: Chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya” and rhythmic beats of traditional dhol-tasha reverberated across Mumbai on Friday as thousands of devotees bid an emotional farewell to Lord Ganesh on the final, 12th day of the festival. As immersion processions wound their way to seashores and artificial ponds, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 16,154 Ganapati idols…
New Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Friday that it is his duty to tell his party (BJP) what he feels about Punjab and that does not mean he is quitting the party. He also said he is going through “difficult times” but did not elaborate further. Singh said he is 84…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday rejected reports that President Droupadi Murmu returned the anti-goonda bill to the state government for reconsideration, and said the proposed legislation is currently “under consideration” of the home ministry. It was reported by a section of the media that the President had returned the bill, after…
