Mexican Sergio Perez was waiting for the go-ahead to race in Formula One's 70th Anniversary Grand Prix after ending quarantine for COVID-19 on Thursday.
Usain Bolt collected his third Olympic gold medal when he helped Jamaica smash the world record to win the men's 4x100 meters relay on Friday.
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World champion Tyson Gay failed to qualify for the 100 meters final at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday.
The incident occurred at Kasi theatre in Chennai's Ashok Nagar during the interval at 11:30 am on Sunday.
Against the backdrop of the Lok Sabha results, a much larger scale of desertion was anticipated from the TMC. 'It seems, people don't believe that the ship is sinking.'
Why should an elected government, any party's government, need a law to protect itself from its people? asks Shekhar Gupta.
He asked the people to shun the argument that they 'want to enjoy before the third wave of coronavirus' and stressed that there should be no compromise in following COVID-19 protocols.
Uncapped teenage fast bowler Alzarri Joseph will join the 13-member West Indies squad for the second Test against India starting in Kingston, Jamaica on July 30, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said. The 19-year-old Joseph has performed outstanding bowling feats for the U-19 side where he snared 13 wickets to lead West Indies to their World Cup title in Bangladesh. No other changes have been made to the Jason Holder-led squad which looked inexperienced against India's supremacy in the first game as they were thrashed by an innings and 92 runs.
From Williams Formula One driver Felipe Massa to 'Lightning' Bolt to Yamaha MotoGP World champion rider Jorge Lorenzo, check out some bone-chilling moments captured on camera.
Yes, people, it's Fab Friday as the Felix, Farah and Bolt show beckons! Usain Bolt starts his quest for a second world track gold in Moscow but American sprinting great Allyson Felix looks set to steal the limelight as she goes for a fourth world 200 metres title on Friday.
Favourable response to launches, recovery in CVs will aid growth.
Which were the five businesses Ratan Tata had great hopes for, but his successor failed to deliver?
India had a golden on Day 8 of the 2018 Commonwealth Games
On his first official visit to a member country after assuming office in August, world athletics chief Sebastian Coe urged India to promote track and field at the school level if it wants to excel on the international stage.
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For two decades the US paid in blood and blood money for dependence on Pakistan to carry out one president's boast. Now, having been defeated by its proxies, another president will go into Rawalpindi's embrace to satisfy his constituents, predicts Shekhar Gupta.
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Southampton took the lead at St Mary's in the 18th minute after Dusan Tadic finished off a fine team move but, just before the break, Everton levelled with a bolt from the blue as Iceland's Gylfi Sigurdsson thundered a strike from distance in off the crossbar, his first league goal for the club.
Ponmariappan, who has been running a free library at his hair-cutting salon in Tamil Nadu, was featured on Mann Ki Baat on October 25.
Brief profile of five male athletes to watch out for at the August 22-30 world championships in Beijing.
With the Formula One season about to get underway, here's a look at the news cars teams will use.
Novak Djokovic is chasing a record-extending eighth Australian Open title, while Dominic Thiem will bid to become the first man born in the 1990s to win a major title.
Nightmares loom for players dreaming of Grand Slam success if they have the misfortune of running into bespectacled bogeyman Chung Hyeon in coming years, according to his coach Neville Godwin.
Here are the five things that smart people do on a Friday and over the weekend.
With 28 Grammy wins in total, Beyonce breaks the record set by veteran singer Alison Krauss.
M&M is working on petrol engine while Tata is set to introduce petrol option in Bolt and Zest.
Pramod Kumar Srivastav of PKS Management Consultants offers the nuts and bolts of finding a new job in the third part of the series on 'How to find your NEXT job'
China's presence in the international dog house is just the kind of opportunity that his opponents must be waiting for, predicts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The company will bring a couple of new models every year and admitted that lack of new products has hurt the company.
David Brown, the world's fastest totally blind sprinter, has been accompanied every step of the way by his guide Jerome Avery but the coronavirus outbreak has forced them apart for the first time in six years of training and racing together. Many runners can continue training more or less as usual in this time of social and physical distancing but it is not so easy for those without sight, who run in tandem with their guide, their adjoining hands tethered by a 30cm (12 inch) band.
There is no conceivable reason for any big power to put road blocks on the path of an India-Pakistan normalisation process, asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Akhtaruzzaman Elias's The Raincoat describes the effect of the 1971 war on a college and on one of its teachers in particular.
Images from Monday's IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians, in Dubai.
Serbian tennis star and World No 1, Novak Djokovic won the Sportsman of the Year, while Spanish football giants Barcelona won big at the 2012 Laureus Sports Awards in London on Monday.
Tata Motors, part of the $100 billion Tata conglomerate, said consolidated net profit for the April-June quarter rose to 53.98 billion rupees ($882.31 million) compared with Rs 17.68 billion a year ago.
This is the first time that four men will be hanged together in Tihar jail.
A disgruntled Didier Drogba refused to play for the Montreal Impact on Sunday after learning that he would not be in the starting lineup, coach Mauro Biello said.
Paris St Germain suffered their first defeat of the season when they were beaten 2-0 at Stade Rennais on Sunday to drop their first Ligue 1 points of the season.
Neeraj Pandey, who makes his debut on the digital platform, tells us what to expect.
