Eight years after winning Olympic gold and two years after concluding a doping ban, Justin Gatlin secured his return to the Games by running an eye-catching 9.80 seconds to win the 100 metres at the US Olympic trials on Sunday.
Arnab Nandy's post about coming out of the closet and how his parents celebrated the Section 377 verdict has gone viral.
American champion Tyson Gay continued his impressive buildup to next month's World championships on Thursday by winning the 100 metres at Lausanne's Athletissima Diamond League meeting in 9.79 seconds.
'My mother, who was a simple woman, retorted, "Aur main Indira Gandhi bol rahi hoon".' 'We had a good laugh over that one, you and I.' On her second death anniversary, February 6, Subhash K Jha remembers his beloved Lata Didi.
A Democrat senator has reportedly suggested that countries should wave rainbow flags during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia to show support for gay rights, instead of boycotting them.
There will be no discrimination against gay people during the Winter Olympics in Sochi next month, a Russian lawmaker said on Monday.
'On the set, Ranveer and I got along really well. Ten days after the release, Ranveer messaged me and said, you have killed the scene! For someone like him to message me just says how supportive person he is of newcomers.'
Just in case anybody's forgotten how gorgeous Sonakshi Sinha can look, the actor sends a timely reminder.
American sprinter Tyson Gay notched the world's best 100m record of 2011 with a 9.79sec run at an event in Clermont, Florida.
The Supreme Court, which is hearing arguments on a batch of pleas seeking legal sanction for same-sex marriage, said on Thursday that the inflow of cases in the apex court is so heavy that it is impossible to list Constitution bench matters unless the time taken to argue is rationed.
The American was due to face world record holder Usain Bolt and fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell in front of a capacity 50,000 crowd.
Ireland's Indian-origin Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country by announcing his sudden resignation from the post and party leadership citing "personal and political" reasons.
Songs from big ticket movies regaled on the strength of spunk and swagger even as pre-existing bangers like Diljit Dosanjh's Lover in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, Kohraa's Beqarar Karke Humein in Jawan and an Iranian wedding favourite Jamal Kudu in Animal grew a brand new fanbase in the course of enhancing the storytelling values.
'Family is the most important thing in a society.' 'That's why I am always thinking about family and society. I want it to be better.'
How well did these actors play homosexuals? RATE THEM!
'The State does not accept our rights, what more can I say about this judgment?'
The show takes its own pace to pick up, but then when you least expect, it grabs you by the throat, notes Aseem Chhabra.
Pakistan's first website for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities has been blocked by telecom authorities after receiving complaints from Internet users. However, the website's administrators on Thursday appeared to have outsmarted the authorities by hosting it at a new web address.
Chitra Palekar explains how parents and teachers can help accept sexuality.
Tearful former double sprint world champion Tyson Gay said on Sunday he has tested positive for a substance he could not identify and is pulling out of next month's world championships in Moscow.
'If we manage to transform even one homophobic person, that will be a victory for the film.'
From moments that felt long time in the coming to swashbuckling statements that could be interpreted in more ways than one, there are some that fanned our nostalgia, some made our jaws drop (or stomachs churn), some hit too close home, still others left us with a lingering sense of guilt. Sukanya Verma picks cinematic imagery that stood out in 2023.
'Not giving a human being the basic requirement of marriage and right to institution of family merely because of their orientation is indeed against the principle of the core values of a democracy.'
Tammy Smith's promotion took place on Friday in a private ceremony at the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
'I never had any nakhras, never threw tantrums, so I got along with all my heroes.'
The International Olympic Committee will consider taking action against pole vault world champion Yelena Isinbayeva, a Youth Olympics ambassador, after her comments in favour of Russia's new gay law triggered a major controversy last month.
World sprint champion Tyson Gay plans to run three times in Asia this year but will not compete in Friday's Golden League meeting in Brussels, a spokeswoman for his management company said on Tuesday.
A 57-year-old mother has placed India's first gay matrimonial advertisement seeking a groom for her son.
'She got really close, and I was like, oh Miss Universe and me dancing!'
Tyson Gay overcame Olympic bronze medallist Justin Gatlin's quicker start and sped to the year's fastest 100 metres, clocking 9.75 seconds at the US trials for the World championships on Friday.
Soon after a Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi committed suicide jumping off from a bridge in New York in September 2010, the long time gay activist William Dobbs, who has been featured in several publications including The New York Times wrote a letter to The Chronicle of Higher Learning. Rediff.com's Arthur J Pais talks to him
The real achievement of the film, which is now available worldwide on Netflix, is that it resists the temptations of the genre.
Only fellow American Michael Johnson's world record of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is faster than his timing of 19.62 seconds, at the US championships.
There's a spate of book-to-screen adaptations dominating OTT streaming this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
There's been so much interesting content on OTT. Subhash K Jha picks his Best Original Feature Films on digital platforms.
World champion Tyson Gay failed to qualify for the 100 meters final at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday.
The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards were held at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel on February 20.
World record holder Powell clocked 10.01 seconds in the quarter-final heats while Gay won his heat in 10.06.
Stories of friendship, former life and fights against the system dominate the OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
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