Ranthambore Tiger Reserve's pride, 19-year-old tigress Machli, the oldest big cat ever known to have walked the wilderness, died on Wednesday morning after ailing for some time, officials said. Machli, the most photographed big cat at the reserve, died at 9.40 a.m. She had been refusing food and water for some time. She was under observation at Ama Ghati, in t...
A string of celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Johar, Ajay Devgn and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra have praised wrestler Sakshi Malik, who has ended India's long wait for a medal at the ongoing Rio Olympics. Malik clinched the bronze medal in the Women's Freestyle 58kg category on Wednesday night even as the Indian challenge in other disciplines c...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks about Balochistan and Pakistani Kashmir in his Independence Day speech "have not helped matters on the bilateral front", a Pakistan daily has said, terming the current state of relations between the two neighbours as "toxic". "Narendra Modi's remarks, repeated during his speec...
Former Kerala bureaucrat and now BJP leader K.J. Alphons said on Wednesday that his appointment as administrator of the union territory of Chandigarh is "not going to happen". Speaking to IANS, Alphons said: "Very soon it's going to be election time in Punjab, and since political parties have expressed reservations against me...
Celebrations took place at the home of Sakshi Malik on Thursday in Haryana's Rohtak town after the gritty wrestler brought India its first medal in the ongoing Rio Olympics by winning a bronze. For a state (Haryana) which has the worst sex ratio among all the states in the country (879 females against 1,000 males as per the 2011 census) ...
Sakshi Malik brought an end to India's long wait for a medal at the ongoing Rio Olympics, clinching bronze in the Women's Freestyle 58kg category with a spirited comeback victory over Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan....
Hitting back at the Congress for its remarks on the government policy on Pakistan, the BJP said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sought to “name and shame†the neighbouring country for “atrocities it is committing day and night in Balochistanâ€....
Akhila Bharatiya Vidharthi Parishad (ABVP) activists continued their protests across Karnataka on Wednesday, stepping up pressure on the state government to arrest Amnesty International India's representatives and those who raised anti-India slogans at an event last week....
Within hours of reports that the union government on Wednesday appointed former bureaucrat and Kerala BJP leader K.J. Alphons as the new Administrator of union territory of Chandigarh, an upset Punjab Chief Minister intervened and urged the union government "to review and revise the decision"....
It turned out to be another day of heartbreaks for India at the Rio Olympics with wrestler Vinesh Phogat's victory march halted by a freak injury and Sakshi Malik losing her quarter-final bout while shuttler Kidambi Srikanth's valiant fight in the semi-final ended on the losing side....
