Distance runner Lalita Babar, who created a piece of history in Beijing yesterday by becoming the first track athlete from India to reach the final round in the IAAF World Championships, says her excellent timing in the heats gave a big boost to her confidence for the final. “Getting to the final was a great […]
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Usain Bolt said he might end his glittering career at next year’s Olympics after he completed a world sprint double in Beijing — and got clattered by an electric scooter into the bargain. The towering Jamaican said he was only 50-50 about running at the next world championships in 2017 in London, and could retire
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tribute to hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand on his 110th birth anniversary and extended best wishes to all sports enthusiasts across the country on the occasion of the National Sports Day. “Best wishes to sports enthusiasts and tributes to Major Dhyan Chand on National Sports Day. May sports
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Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans — a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil scientist. They
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Another hockey dream has bloomed, it’s time to say Chak De India to women’s hockey in the country. India’s women hockey team has qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, claiming their berth thanks to the England team who defeated Spain in the semifinals of the EuroHockey Championships in London on Friday.
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Rain forced an early end of the first day’s play of the third cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) here on Friday, with just about one hour’s play possible. India were 50/2 against Sri Lanka when rain interrupted play before lunch. Opening batsman Cheteshwar Pujara (19 not out)
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted the nation on the occasion of Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan. In his message, Mr Mukherjee said: “The thread of Rakhi (sacred thread) binds sisters and brothers in an inseparable bond of love and trust. May we all pledge to dedicate ourselves to the well-being
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Home decor brings to your mind a world of things; from designing the furniture to matching them with perfect furnishings to adding those unique elements for a stunning look. If you are still in two minds as to what decorative elements would make for a perfect style statement for your house this festive weekend; here’s
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Like all festive occasions, girls love to dress up and look their best on Raksha Bandhan, but in the hot and humid season the skin loses its shine and needs toning and refreshment. To counter the harmful effects of the heat and humidity on the skin, one should use watermelon juice or used tea bags
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Happiness, prosperity and love are what Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Farhan Akhtar, Riteish Deshmukh and Bipasha Basu wish for friends and fans celebrating the harvest festival of Onam on Friday. Here’s what they tweeted: Amitabh Bachchan: T 1976 – A very happy Onam to all .. festival predominantly celebrated with gusto in
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A standard blood test used to verify heart muscle damage from heart attacks could also identify people at risk of hypertension well before the silent killer shows up on a blood pressure machine, a new study has found. Researchers found that people with subtle elevations in cardiac troponin were more likely to be diagnosed with
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It’s bad enough that seemingly half of India’s sports federations are involved in one court case or another (or multiple, in the case of the BCCI), but now India’s sportspersons are crowding the courtroom over national awards as well. Para-athlete H N Girisha’s petition challenging Sania Mirza’s right to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Usain Bolt’s celebrations after completing a world championship sprint double came to a painful halt on Thursday after he was knocked over by a cameraman on an electric scooter. The bizarre accident happened when the cameraman strayed too close to a barefoot Bolt as he posed for photos following his gold medal run in the
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Two new teams for the next two editions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in place of the suspended Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) franchises was among the two proposals put forward by the IPL Governing Council in its meeting in Kolkata on Thursday. “One suggestion is to have two new teams
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has dismissed top officials in the wake of a recent standoff with South Korea, state media reported Friday, a move that suggests the young leader holds them responsible for allowing the confrontation to nearly spin out of control. The rival Koreas earlier this week threatened strikes against each other before
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As regional leaders met on Thursday to tackle Europe’s refugee crisis, a gruesome discovery unfolded a short drive from the Austrian capital. An abandoned truck was found with at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — decomposing bodies of migrants piled inside. It was the latest tragedy in a year that has seen
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On Monday Facebook notched up probably its greatest achievement so far. The service was used by over 1 billion people in the single day on that day. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, in a wall post on the social media, said this is first time the company saw such usage figures. “We just passed an important milestone.
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With talks on One Rank One Pension or OROP breaking down again on Thursday night, upset veterans are boycotting celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of India’s successes in the 1965 war against Pakistan. The golden jubilee celebrations begin today with a function to mark India’s capture of the Haji Pir Pass on August 28,
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The BSE Sensex and Nifty surged on Friday, after global markets extended rally amid positive US economic data and easing fears about China. At its day’s high, the Sensex rose over 450 points to 26,687.33 while Nifty hit 8,091. Here are top 10 developments: 1) Asian shares extended a global rally on Friday after upbeat
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India will seek to clinch their first series win on Sri Lankan soil in 22 years as they go into the third and final cricket Test against the hosts tomorrow in what promises to be a thrilling duel between the two young teams. Virat Kohli managed to register his first Test victory as captain after
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D6 which carried India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-6. The 29-hour countdown for this launch began at 11.52 am on Wednesday after the Mission Readiness Review (MRR) committee and Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) cleared the starting of the countdown. The launch itself
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Was the case of Sheena Bora’s ‘murder’ an accidental discovery by the police? Or did they know all along that there was something suspicious about the disappearance of a girl from a high profile Mumbai family but were being cautious about it? Investigators say they came to know about details of the case following the
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President Pranab Mukherjee will on Friday pay homage to the martyred soldiers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 India-Pakistan war. The President will lay a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti memorial to the Unknown Soldier at the India Gate here. The war saw aircraft of the Indian and Pakistani air forces engaging
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In a major success, army on Thursday captured a Pakistani terrorist after killing his four associates in a two-day operation in Kashmir, about weeks after Naved from Pakistan was caught alive in Udhampur. The arrested terrorist, identified as 22-year-old Sajjad Ahmed from Muzaffargarh in south west Pakistan, was literally smoked out from a cave in
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