Popular celebrities from Bollywood, the small screen and the music fraternity like Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, A.R. Rahman, Rishi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar have mourned the death of legendary former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali by calling him “legendary†and the “greatest†person....
The social media is having a field day over the faux pas made by Kerala Industry and Sports Minister E.P.Jayarajan in his obituary reference on late boxing legend Muhammed Ali....
Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was joined by several other sporting greats in paying tributes to boxing legend Muhammed Ali, who breathed his last after a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease in Arizona....
A top Border Security Force (BSF) officer said on Saturday that there are intelligence reports about militants planning to attack the forthcoming Amarnarh Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir. At the wreath laying ceremony in Srinagar to honour three BSF troopers martyred in an attack by guerrilla's at Bijbehara on Friday, BSF Director General K.K. Sharma t...
Washington, June 4 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has warned China against aggression in the South China Sea, saying the nation is bucking positive regional cooperation in Asia in pursuit of its own ambitions. Carter made the remarks on Friday at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue in...
Marking another major success in India's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday jointly inaugurated the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, built with Indian aid. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Ghani said that with India's help a longst...
Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, the de facto No.2 in the BJP-led state government, quit on Saturday after getting embroiled in multiple controversies, including graft allegations in a questionable land deal and his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Khadse, who also held nearly a dozen other major portfolios in the state gov...
At least two policemen were killed and four others were injured when militants attacked a police checkpost in south Kashmir's Anantnag town on Saturday. "Militants fired at security forces on K.P. Road in Anantnag town on Saturday morning," a senior police officer told IANS. "Two policemen, an Assistant Sub-Inspector and a Constable, have been martyred in t...
"After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74," spokesman Bob Gunnell said on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday left for a five-nation tour that will take him to Afghanistan, Qatar, Switzerland, the US and Mexico....