Aimed at boosting India’s performance in future Olympic Games, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Friday announced that a Task Force would be set up to prepare a comprehensive action plan for “effective participation” of Indian sportspersons in the next three Olympic Games — 2020, 2024 and 2028. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers at Read More

WHAT SHOULD have been a routine visit to hospital with his daughter-in-law, Haseena Bano, after she developed labour pain turned into a nightmare for Abdul Rahim Lone on August 21. There was no technician to conduct the sonography at the local hospital. Doctors told Lone the paramedic had not been able to come to work due to the ongoing curfew, Read More

WHAT SHOULD have been a routine visit to hospital with his daughter-in-law, Haseena Bano, after she developed labour pain turned into a nightmare for Abdul Rahim Lone on August 21. There was no technician to conduct the sonography at the local hospital. Doctors told Lone the paramedic had not been able to come to work due to the ongoing curfew, Read More

Jonathan Selvaraj shows how of the 85 in the Indian squad – excluding team events such as field hockey – only 13 could be reckoned to have matched a season’s best, qualifying mark or advanced past the first round of their event. ATHLETICS: Mohd Anas (400m) Qualification: 45.40s, At Rio: 45.95s. Jinson Johnson (800m) Qualification: 1:45:98s, At Rio: 1:47:27s. Recorded the Read More

Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur was sacked by the party Friday after a video surfaced allegedly showing him accept from an AAP volunteer cash in exchange for a party ticket. Chhotepur, at a press conference held on Friday, said that his friends had conspired against him and he has done nothing wrong. He rejected suggestions that he Read More

A study revealed that the temperature of the Earth dropped during the 2015 solar eclipse, Britain’s Met office has said. The Met Office on Monday said it was the first time that satellites had been used to monitor surface “skin” temperatures during a total solar eclipse, Xinhua news agency reported. The research showed the eclipse on March 20, 2015 resulted Read More

Now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and wet climate about four billion years ago, said researchers after analysing fossilised riverbeds discovered on an ancient region of the Martian surface. The team from the University College London identified over 17,000 km of former river channels on a northern plain called Arabia Terra, providing further evidence of water once Read More

The Supreme Court Friday said that nobody can be allowed to flare up tempers or incite violence in the Kashmir Valley and added that those acting against the interest of the country should be put behind bars. “You (government) cannot allow people to create trouble there…you take actions if anybody incite people or works against the interest of the country,” Read More

Sir Richard Branson, Virgin founder and Britain’s best known businessman today said that he thought he was “going to die” after an horrific bike crash on Caribbean island Virgin Gorda this week. Branson was cycling with his two children on the British Virgin Islands when he hit a hump in the road. In a post on the Virgin website, the Read More

Tata Motors on Friday reported a 57 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,260.40 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, due to post Brexit adverse foreign exchange impacting its British arm JLR. The city-based company had posted a consolidated profit of Rs 5,254.23 crore in the same period last fiscal, Tata Motors said in a Read More