Congress candidate Elangovan secured 1,10,156 votes (64.58 per cent), which is 20.29 per cent more than the 2021 assembly election as the then INC candidate secured 66,300 votes and won the seat.
The Athletes Commission of the IOA has recommended the national Olympic body to put systems in place to deal with issues of the players "with respect and dignity" in the light of the protest by India's top wrestlers.
Bhavani, who failed to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics, said she didn't know how to pick and choose tournaments and so competed in all of them.
Out of these 148 athletes, 17 have got both the doses and 131 have received their first shot.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favorite 2023 films -- a healthy blend of Bollywood, Hindi indies and some of the best work that is being done in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali cinema.
A Ganesh Nadar shares the unforgettable lessons his teachers have taught him.
Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.
At the cost of disappointing Vijay fans, says Divya Nair, I can safely say that Master is watchable for Sethupathi and Das.
The authorities have issued flood alert to the people living in the low lying areas and also along river banks in as many as nine districts.
It was BCCI that 'bought' Neeraj Chopra's javelin during e-auction in 2021
India's tally at the world event now stands at four medals.
The frustration for aspirant Olympians has been palpable and athletes like table tennis player Sathiyan Gnanasekaran have been forced to innovate to stay sharp during the lengthy lockdowns.
For the May 10 assembly elections in Karnataka, the following are the 20 seats to watch out for.
Zwigato urges viewers to think critically about the kind of unethical behaviour that food delivery workers have to put up with on a daily basis because of insensitive customers, observes Chintan Girish Modi.
PM Modi had also taken a review meeting to take stock of how the preparations of India's athletes are going
Sharath Kamal's progress to the third round of the men's singles in table tennis was the only bright spot on another gloomy day for India at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
Among the memorable gifts presented to Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, up for bids in an e-auction, are sporting memorabilia gifted by India's Tokyo Olympians.
Deepa Gahlot picks a list of 10 essential RGV movies though there are 84 to wade through.
'Despite pandemic Govt is doing everything possible to support our athletes to make India proud'
Only 68 MPs voted in favour of the motion, it said, giving the 72-year-old President a comfortable victory.
Sunday's yatra proved that it needs both the maturity of locals as well as the police doing their duty, to ensure that a religious procession doesn't turn ugly.
'The fact that he hasn't resigned so far shows that he is going to do everything to hold onto power.'
Set in Kashmir, Kaafir -- Dia Mirza's new show Kaafir, streaming on ZEE5 -- is about a Pakistani woman and her daughter who cross over to India and are held prisoner.
A video purportedly of a meeting of the Congress MLAs loyal to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has surfaced.
This marks the entry of the 8th member from the Gowda family into politics.
'The Rajapaksas have been in active politics for decades and survived many challenges, but they seem to have misread this one.'
A portion of the 15-foot tall private compound wall, totally wet due to heavy rains lashing the area for the past few days, fell on the adjoining tiled-roof houses in Nadur village.
The family of the Bengaluru blast victim Bhavani is shattered by her death and has asked the state government and Centre to take steps to stop recurrence of such terror attacks.
'The worry among many international actors is whether there will be stability to provide assistance to the government because the political developments in the last few months are a real concern.'
'While parliament has elected him, the people are demanding that he goes home.'
The world knew who Balasaheb's Shiv Sainik was. But who was Uddhav's Shiv Sainik? And most importantly, why did he believe in Uddhav, and not Nitin Gadkari or Devendra Fadnavis?
'There is fear that the president and prime minister are dragging their feet and won't resign.'
Olympic bronze-winning Indian men's hockey team captain Manpreet Singh was on Tuesday added to the list of Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna awardees, taking the total number of this year's winners to an unparalleled 12.
Badminton rackets used by the Paralympic gold medallist, the javelin which brought India its first gold in the Olympics and gloves worn by the bronze medal winning athlete are among Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mementos which are drawing the highest bids currently on the culture ministry website which is e-auctioning them.
National Disaster Response Force teams and Krishna district authorities have launched a massive search and rescue operation to trace the missing people.
Saloni Dhumne and Atreya Raghavan speak to young India to find out who their LGBTQ heroes are.
'India has given assistance that we required, otherwise we would not have been able to survive this far.'
Paralympic gold-winners Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil, Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Manish Narwal were also given the Khel Ratna at a dazzling awards ceremony on Saturday.
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