Others who watched the movie with Patil were Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rehman Khan, BJP lawmaker Ananth Kumar and several Left lawmakers.
'If this were a popular poll rather than an indirect election, I am sure the current President would be re-elected handily.'
The Punjab athlete clocked 14.05 seconds to erase Guruprith Singh's record of 14.07s, at the Open National Athletics Championships.
The athletics event gets underway at the Afro Asian Games on Tuesday, but the starting list of foreigners is still unknown.
The Railways athletes proved too good in the one-lap race at the Federation Cup athletics.
They respectively won the men's and women's 100 metres at the Federation Cup athletics championships.
Sri Lanka's sprint queen set a new meet record in the 100 metres at the second Asian Asian GP in Hyderabad.
"Indian sports persons had done well in the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games and now we are ready to enter the Olympics," the Indian prime minister said.
According to sources, Assam was voted ahead of Assam, Goa, Haryana and Jharkhand, who had also bid to host the 2004 event.
Their men's and women's teams beat Kerala and Maharashtra respectively in the final to win the team titles in the National Games badminton tournament.
In its sway over national politics now, the Modi-Shah BJP is what the Congress was under Indira Gandhi. Why would they indulge coalition partners, their greed and egos now, asks Shekhar Gupta.
Since Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on June 2, 2014, the high court in Hyderabad was functioning as the common high court for the two states.
The NCP chief says, "Self-styled' loyalists of 10, Janpath, convinced Gandhi that it would be better to back Narsimha Rao in 1991 as prime minister over him as the "Gandhi family was not about to let someone with independent mind" to get the top post, Sharad Pawar has claimed.
Why must Indians adjust their time-tested system because of what the West needs, asks Sanjeev Nayyar.
Rising shuttler P V Sindhu stole the show with a hard-fought win over World No.3 Germany's Juliane Schenk as Awadhe Warriors sailed into the semi-finals of the inaugural Indian Badminton League with a clinical win over Pune Pistons in Hyderabad.
Ansari relinquishes office after a decade.
Behind sprinter Dutee Chand's rise is a hidden journey filled with pain and hardship.
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