'I had calculated that I have to run below 4 minute 40 seconds in the 1500m if I have to qualify for the Asian Games. I achieved that not because I was capable of but because of my co-competitors. Each one of them said that they have to push this guy (Shankar) to finish on time. One guy was running with me all the time in the race only to push me ahead.'
Vidit Gujrathi crashed through the defences of Hans Moke Niemann of the United States to join the leaders' pack on 4.5 points.
Looks like all political parties have thrown caution to the winds where 33 per cent reservation for women is concerned. Take the examples of Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal which recently went to polls.
The ban on the entry of women at the hill shrine became strict following a directive of the Kerala high court in 1990 on the basis of an affidavit given by the then government in a related case
Kerala Congress President V M Sudheeran on why the state needs to get sober.
The SC asked if a roving inquiry could be ordered into the 'issue of consent' between two adults who married at will.
A father-son duo killed in the attack hailed from Vadodara and their family back home is shattered.
The 54-year old Mulakkal was arrested by Kerala police after intense interrogation in Kochi over the last three days.
Girish AD doesn't make romantic comedies so much as he elevates the genre, observes Sreehari Nair.
This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.
Legendary singer K J Yesudas has suggested that women should avoid wearing jeans, saying it goes against Indian culture.
Women's share of work in these industries is over 50 per cent, yet they are paid much less than their male counterparts.
The case was registered after a team of women officers recorded the statement of the girl, they said, adding that an investigation has been launched and the friskers who were allegedly involved in the act would be arrested soon.
Indian Young Lawyers Association and a group of women lawyers have filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Kerala government and the head priest of Sabarimala temple to ensure that women devotees are not denied entry.
The budget, presented by Finance Minister Thomas Issac, focused on infrastructure development, strengthening of social welfare measures, steps to enhance safety of women, giving impetus to public education and health. It is the second budget by the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF after it came to power last year.
The event was also attended by Prince Charles.
The ministry of minority affairs informed the Lok Sabha that in 2022-2023, it had been allotted Rs 5,020.5 crore (Rs 50.20 billion); in the Revised Estimates, it had got Rs 2,612.66 crore (Rs 26.12 billion); and had spent, until the end of March this year, Rs 712.5 crore (Rs 7,12 billion).
'Considering menstruating women impure is a Dravidian custom and is associated with the worship of nature by the tribal people'
Arnie's back, Varun shape shifts while others fight the good fight and more on OTT this week.
'If the missing people really had any contact with IS, it would be dangerous.' 'Majority of Muslims do not approve of this.'
Nagaland were all out for just 2 runs from 17 overs in an astonishing display before they lost by 10 wickets with 299 deliveries to spare.
