P.V. Sindhu settled for silver at the Rio Olympics after being beaten 21-19, 12-21, 15-21 by World No.1 Carolina Marin in the badminton women's singles event here on Friday in one hour and 20 minutes....
Star shuttler P.V. Sindhu, who on Friday became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in badminton in the Olympics, has had a meteoric rise since she first hit the headlines in 2012....
Congress's women leaders on Friday warned the Kerala government, led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, that it will face an all-women agitation if free flow of liquor was allowed in the state, a senior woman Congress leader said. ...
The Congress on Friday demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that BJP leaders suffered more after Independence "than what Congress did under the British", saying that he has trivialised the freedom struggle....
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the deaths in the current unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and also offered his good offices to facilitate dialogue between India and Pakistan to "achieve a negotiated settlement" on all outstanding issues, including Kashmir....
Lieutenant General D.S. Hooda, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Army's Northern Command, on Friday said the army will soon resume anti-militancy operations in south Kashmir areas that were suspended due to the law and order situation....
The police on Friday caned about 100 Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists and took 40 of them into preventive custody for attempting to barge into Amnesty International India office here to protest the anti-India slogans raised at a Kashmiri event the organisation held here last week....
There should be a CBI investigation into the reported disappearance of gold worth crores from the famous Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here, former Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said on Friday....
Suspended DMK legislators on Friday held a mock assembly session outside the Tamil Nadu secretariat building, even as the state legislature was in session, to protest against the suspension of 80 of its 89 lawmakers from the house for a week...
The Shiv Sena on Friday questioned why only former Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are appointed as governors and lt. governors of various states and Union Territories while BJP allies in the National Democratic Alliance are overlooked....
