Saina Nehwal-led Hyderabad Hotshots won the inaugural Indian Badminton League (IBL) title at the National Sports Club of India (NSCI) here Saturday. The Hotshots beat the P.V. Sindhu-led Awadhe Warriors 3-1 in the final. –Indo-Asian News Service
With the falling rupee and rising oil import bills fuelling the current account deficit, the petroleum ministry is planning to do away with 24-hour petrol pumps in cities, the minister M. Veerappa Moily said here. "It (petrol pump timings) could be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or something like that. We are still
With the falling rupee and rising oil import bills fuelling the current account deficit, the petroleum ministry is planning to do away with 24-hour petrol pumps in cities, the minister M. Vee rappa Moily said here. "It (petrol pump timings) could be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or something like that. We are still
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has strongly opposed military operation in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. "Peace should be restored in the country's commercial capital by using police", reported Online news agency citing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief. Khan said 150,000 military personnel were fighting terrorists in the tribal areas and Balochistan and it
Congress President Sonia Gandhi Saturday said making laws for the empowerment of women alone would not suffice unless they were effectively enforced. "We realise just making laws and announcing policies would not be enough to empower women. Along with it, policies and laws will have to be implemented properly on ground," she said at
Eight-and-a-half months after a young paramedical student was gang-raped in a moving bus here, the first punishment was handed out when a juvenile court ruled that an 18-year-old, who was claimed by the police to be the "most brutal" of all the six accused, be confined to a reform home for three years. The
Spiritual guru Asaram Babu was arrested here late Saturday night by Jodhpur police over allegation of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in his ashram, official sources said. "He has been arrested," a senior police official told IANS. Asaram was arrested after lengthy questioning in his ashram here, sources said, adding that he
Sports Minister Jitendra Singh Saturday said his ministry has put the name of triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary on hold from the Arjuna Awards list until it conducts an inquiry into the doping allegations levelled against him. Kerala-based Maheshwary missed Saturday's National Sports Day where he was to be conferred the Arjuna Award with
Double trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi was conferred the country's highest sporting honour – the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna – in a dazzling ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here Saturday. Virat Kohli's meteoric rise in world cricket too was recognised as he received the Arjuna Award. President Pranab Mukherjee had a busy evening presenting Arjuna,
Triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary said Saturday that he will not go for the Arjuna Awards function to be held in later in the day in Rashtrapati Bhawan in the national capital. "There has been a news report in an English daily today of me having failed a dope test before. Some vested interests are