India will be represented by six athletes, including three women, in the World Athletics Championships to be held in Berlin from August 15-23.
Ranju Sarkar discovers 48East -- a Bengaluru-based food start-up that delivers flavours from 48 Asian countries to your doorstep.
Ethiopia's Gashaw Melese was second and countryman Tariku Jufar third.
Hurricane Michael unleashed a furious onslaught on Florida's Panhandle on Wednesday, the record-breaking cyclone tearing apart buildings and submerging houses in floodwaters before taking aim at Georgia and the Carolinas. Michael's 155mph winds at landfall were only 5mph short of category 5 status, making it the strongest storm to strike the United States since Hurricane Andrew ravaged southern Florida in 1992. Florida Governor Rick Scott warned of "unimaginable devastation", saying it would be the worst storm in 100 years.
'They are not ready to take the vaccine.' 'They fear that if they do, they will die.'
Headed to this dreamy hill station in Maharashtra? Here's what you can do there, says Anita Aikara.
Admissions are open at St Joseph's Boys' Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School.
Five members of the Lutchman family have been jailed for assaulting and robbing their neighbour five years ago.
The Goa government has sent a team to take stock of the situation and ensure proper treatment for the students of St JosephHigh School in Usgao village, about 40-km from in Panaji.
American Kristin Armstrong became the first cyclist to win the same road event at three different Olympic Games on Wednesday. Britain's surprise packet Joseph Clarke won the Canoe gold in the K-1 slalom course on Wednesday.
Around 2 lakh ducks will be killed in the Kuttanad area.
India has been described as the diabetes capital of the world, so it's inspiring to hear about a man who fought the dreaded disease by doing what he loved to do.
590 cricketers -- including 370 Indian players and 220 overseas players -- will go under the hammer during the two-day mega auction in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13.
Kerala Congress-M says nobody has asked Mani to resign as UDF leaders meet to discuss the issue.
The sun is out. The flood waters have receded. Keralites have spent crores in quickly cleaning up the state and making it visitor ready. Go to Kerala folks!
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have deliberately crashed the plane after he was left alone in the cockpit, according to a French prosecutor.
In a mega-contract worth over $1.6 billion, state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries will provide advanced medium-range surface-to-air missile systems to the Indian Army.
North Korea on Friday launched an ICBM for the second time in a month.
Telcos say tests were done in the known problematic areas of Delhi-NCR, where operators face issues in obtaining cell sites.
At least 35 students fell ill after consuming mid-day meal in a government primary school at Bhandi village in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh official sources said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday when children complained of stomach ache and vomiting after eating 'poha' served in the midday meal at the school.
The Seismological department said that the quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and lasted for about two minutes.
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Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
'Traditionally, the US tried to tamp down tensions whenever a crisis situation arose and deputed officials from Washington to travel to Delhi to counsel restraint.' 'This time around, no US envoy flew down to Delhi -- not even when tensions spiked and a flashpoint was reached last week,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Time to pack your bags and pamper the wanderlust in you.
Times without count we have bought more complex procedures in the name of simplification, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Here's a glimpse of Modi's first day in Israel.
Shashi Tharoor says the British Museum should change its name to Chor Bazaar because whatever it has within its portals is the result of 200 years of theft. The museum is once again in the eye of a storm for the possession of a statue of a god Hindus, across the world, worship as the Supreme Being.
The tenth annual iPhone Photography Awards received thousands of entries -- all submitted by amateur photographers from more than 140 countries around the world.
Soulful strains of some of the most popular and best known western classical music compositions reverberated in the majestic backdrop of Zabarwan Hills when Zubin Mehta, world famous conductor, performed before a mesmerised audience in the Shalimar Gardens on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar on Saturday evening.
He was number three in 1999 when the company was founded.
It has already tasted success with the moon mission and Mangalyaan. Is man in space the next frontier for ISRO?
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