Rajgir (Bihar): Dilpreet Singh scored a brace as a dominant India defeated defending champions South Korea 4-1 to win the men’s Asia Cup hockey tournament after a hiatus of eight years and qualify for next year’s FIH World Cup, here on Sunday. With four titles in their bag, India have become the second-most successful team…
Dharam Guruva Reddy He is a lone warrior. A Business Management postgraduate from Osmania University, he captained its cricket team in the All-India Inter-University tournament and also led Nizam College before moving on to play county cricket for Sussex in the UK. For nearly a decade now, he has waged relentless legal battles since returning…
Bharata, the son of Kaikeyi, with head bowed low and hands joined in reverence, thus spoke unto Rama: “O Prince of immeasurable glory! Thou hast bestowed on me the kingdom, honouring the word of my mother—but I cannot bear the weight of that crown, even as a calf falters beneath the yoke meant for a…
Megundeshwar Temple, also known as Megundeshwara Lake Temple, is located about 5 km southwest of Ramdurg town in Belagavi district, Karnataka. The temple lies on the Toragal route, with a left turn leading directly to the shrine. The path passes through small hills and greenery, making the journey peaceful. The presiding deity of this temple…
New Delhi: Opposition MPs would be briefed on Monday on the procedure to vote in the September 9 vice presidential polls, and will be hosted for dinner by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge the same evening, sources in the INDIA bloc said on Sunday. They said a ‘mock poll’ would be conducted in the Central Hall…
Imphal: Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Sunday held a high-level meeting with top bureaucrats and several BJP MLAs, including former chief minister N Biren Singh, at Raj Bhavan, officials said. The meeting gains significance ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s likely visit to Manipur in the second week of this month. If it materialises,…
Bengaluru: Yashasvi Jaiswal’s sparkling fifty remained a mere personal landmark as Central Zone advanced to the Duleep Trophy final by virtue of their first innings lead in the drawn match against West Zone here on Sunday. Central Zone will now face South Zone in the final, which is scheduled for September 11. Jaiswal (64) peppered…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a batch of pleas, including those of political parties, challenging the June 24 decision of the Election Commission to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi will consider the response of…
Kyiv: Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early Sunday, killing at least two people and setting the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv ablaze, authorities said. A strike on a nine-story residential building in the west of Kyiv killed at least two people, a mother and her two-month-old son, prosecutors said. 18…
Kochi: Malayalam filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan was detained at Mumbai airport on Sunday as there was a lookout notice issued by the Kerala police in a case related to a harassment complaint given by an actress, officials said. Sasidharan, in a Facebook post, said he has arrived at Mumbai airport but is detained. Confirming the…
