New entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm has accused existing operators of releasing lesser number of interconnection ports for the ongoing test run of its 4G services. “Based on industry practice, 12,500 E1 ports are required for 22 million subscribers, which details have been provided to the COAI member operators. As against this, the top 3 operators have released only 1,400 ports so far,” a Reliance Jio Spokesperson said Read More

Brazil’s Neymar has not yet won his country a gold medal, but on Wednesday he at least pocketed an Olympic record the fastest goal, at a dazzling 15 seconds into the game against overwhelmed Honduras. The semi-final had barely kicked off when Barcelona forward Neymar intercepted the ball, charged towards the Honduran side, tripped over the goalie and landed the Read More

Ahead of elections to 10 municipal councils in the district on December 14, a proposal has been forwarded to the Election Commission to extend the time for voting from 5 pm to 5.30 pm considering the large number of voters coming in to exercise their franchise in the last two hours. Proposals to restrict the number of people per booth Read More

Ahead of elections to 10 municipal councils in the district on December 14, a proposal has been forwarded to the Election Commission to extend the time for voting from 5 pm to 5.30 pm considering the large number of voters coming in to exercise their franchise in the last two hours. Proposals to restrict the number of people per booth Read More

Indonesia’s Ahmad Tontowi and Liliyana Natsir stomped on Malaysia’s dreams of a maiden Olympic gold medal at the badminton on Wednesday by hammering Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying in the mixed double final. Roared to the title by dozens of feverish home fans, the world number three pairing pounced all over the Malaysians from the first point at Read More

Tintu Luka came a cropper on the global stage once again as she failed to qualify for the semifinals of the women’s 800m race after finishing sixth in her heat at the Rio Olympics. 27-year-old Luka clocked a season’s best of 2 minute 00.58 seconds to finish sixth in heat number 3 and 29th overall out of a total 65 runners. She holds the national record Read More

American defending champion Ashton Eaton and Canadian world record holder Damian Warner kicked off the battle for decathlon gold on Wednesday, with Eaton making up for a second place 100 metres finish with a strong long jump and shot put. Warner set an Olympic best of 10.3 seconds for the decathlon 100m on the event’s first day, easily bettering the Read More

Hot favourite Caster Semenya qualified for the Olympic women’s 800 metres semi-finals with supreme ease on Wednesday and will no doubt be braced for another wave of discussions about her gender should she go on to take the gold medal on Saturday. The South African has dominated the event this season and there has even been speculation that she could Read More

Two persons were killed while several others were buried under the debris as a five-storied dilapidated building collapsed following heavy rains in Rohroo area in Shimla on Wednesday. “The deceased have been identified as Nishu and Anshu,” SDM, Rohroo, Y P S Verma said. Six persons were rescued from under the debris of the building that was situated near Saraswati Nagar. They have been admitted to hospital and were Read More

Terming India’s relationship with China a “mixed picture”, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Wednesday said bilateral ties faced “some challenges” in the recent past, including when it blocked New Delhi’s NSG membership bid and UN sanctions against Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar. Addressing reporters, Jaishankar also maintained that India has been largely able to address two big “constraints” – opportunities for China to invest in India and easier Read More