The women's quartet of S Geeta, K M Beenamol, Chitra K Soman and Rajwinder Kaur clocked 3:28.51 seconds, slower than the new national best of 3:26.89 seconds they posted in qualifying for the final.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
She pocketed Rs 9.12 crore as remuneration in FY16
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Chitra and Mohan named their daughter Yunus after the Muslim man who rescued the pregnant woman from neck-deep waters and moved her to a hospital.
From sports to history, Rediff reader Sabyasachi Dutta shares a selection of books for you to add to your reading list in 2020.
A day after Dalal Street witnessed its bloodiest battering, NSE chief Chitra Ramkrishna on Tuesday said there is no need for panic as in an inter-connected world, global developments are bound to have an impact on all markets.
Triple jumper Arpinder Singh created history by becoming the first Indian to win a medal in the IAAF Continental Cup as he clinched a bronze but star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra finished sixth with a below-par show, in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Sunday.
It is hard to believe that RGV chose to make a sequel to his most iconic creation as both the films, Satya and Satya 2 have nothing in common.
Modi's minimum government, maximum governance will go a long way?
After expelling party stalwart Jaswant Singh, now it seems that the Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to take action against the veteran leader's son and legislator Manvendra Singh for allegedly campaigning for his father.
With growing capital markets and business friendly climate, nearly 1.4 lakh investor accounts were opened on an average every month in the last one year.
A Durga Puja pandal in New Delhi turns literature into art.
Baahubali is a spectacular achievement, which not only deserves its place in history but also proves filmmakers should dream big and more often, feels Sukanya Verma.
It offers a lease of life to terminally ill patients since heart transplant still remains out of reach for most.
New exchange will provide an electronic platform for trading.
'There is a degree of civility, efficiency, cleanliness and cultural ease here that has all but vanished in the squalid, chaotic and rootless Hindi heartland,' says Sunil Sethi.
India's top cueist Pankaj Advani fought off a stiff resistance from Keen Hoo Moh of Malaysia to notch up a 4-2 win in his opening match in the Seaways IBSF World Snooker Championship in Bangalore.
A look at the birthday girl's HOTTEST backless avatars on and off screen.
The family members of Subhas Chandra Bose on Thursday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement about declassifying secret files related to Netaji and hoped that the "historic" decision would finally lift the veil over his mysterious disappearance.
ICICI's Chanda Kochhar, ranked highest among Indian women, has been ranked second across the region
'The Chinese -- up to the highest leadership -- will avoid a conflict because they know they will be badly licked.' 'The reputation they have painstakingly built over the last two-three decades of being a global power will be destroyed.'
For those looking to follow a healthy diet, a combination of stir fried crunchy veggies makes for a delicious option.
China's 14-year-old Yan Bingtao scripted a sensational upset on Friday, sending 12-time World champion Pankaj Advani packing with a 6-4 victory in the quarter-finals of the Seaways IBSF World Snooker Championship, at the Sree Kanteerava indoor stadium, in Bengaluru.
The Athletics Federation of India has submitted a list of 51 athletes, including the 11 called for trials, for the August 18 to September 2 Asian Games.
"If slogans are raised on reputed campuses for fragmenting India, resolutions are made to destroy it, and if Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru is hailed as a martyr, it is shameful and disconcerting," an appeal which has the consent of 33 individuals, including intellectuals and artistes, says.
India continued its fine run at the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships, winning four gold medals so far on a rain-hit second day of the competition in Bhubaneswar.
'Modiji's programmes are efficient and with foresight, and needed for the country.' 'I also like his way of functioning. So, in whatever way I can, I would like to contribute.'
Senior Maharashtra Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar, accused of raping and molesting a model-turned-actress, has declined to undergo a polygraph test while the victim expressed readiness to face the scientific examination.
'The only idea -- the only idea -- of the shutdown was to buy time.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, ace cueist Pankaj Advani believes politics should not be mixed with games and Indo-Pak sporting ties should go on.
'Would not proudly showing President Xi Jinping that people from India's North-East are as much a part of India as those from anywhere else be like a slap on the face of Chinese aggression?' asks Chitra Ahanthem.
Irom Sharmila's decision to end her 16-year-old fast against the AFSPA continues to be hotly debated and contested in Imphal.
